Growing up on Long Island New York, I was always surrounded by water so the obvious thing to do was start a fish tank. My parents, owning a fish market probably helped. As a toddler, I would have to stay in the store all day. Of course other kids had toys, I played...
By Paul Baldassano Growing up on Long Island New York, I was always surrounded by water so the obvious thing to do was start a fish tank. My parents, owning a fish market probably helped. As a toddler, I would have to stay in the store all day. Of course other kids...
By Paul Baldassano If you are involved in any hobby, past time, or job long enough, you can easily become bored. In time, reefing, even with all of it’s controversial wisdom concerning substrates, lighting, additives, foods, and water treatments can also become boring...
By Dominick J. Cirigliano & Paul Baldassano As Summer rapidly hits full stride, aquarists in the Tri-state area are presented with the annual opportunity to take advantage of a wide range of natural resources that, if well researched and properly understood, can...
I keep reading about corals and fish dying all over the place and people can't keep mandarins, bubble coral, twin spot gobies and armadillos but I don't think we are really addressing the root of the problem. The first thing everyone asks are what are your parameters?...
Lets talk about undergravel filters, no really. Old technology? Maybe, but so is running water. When we got tired of going outside to pump water, we didn't stop using water, we invented faucets. OK not a great analogy. In the beginning of the aquarium hobby, which...
Biodiversity. I am fascinated by this. I also think it is a cool word. But for us aquarists it is restricted to marine animals, some good (for our tanks) and some bad (for our tanks). All animals are good for something, at least they think so. Even parasites have...
All fish in the sea know how to find their food, and in a tank it is even easier for them. The problem is that in the sea Mother Nature supplies food all day, every day. We as humans have other lives and usually don't want to feed our fish continuously. At least I...
I know there have been numerous threads on building rock, but I think I make it differently. I make it hollow so besides allowing me to make it any shape, it also helps grow anerobic bacteria that will help with nitrates. My entire reef structure is supported on this...
Think like a fish. The best way to keep an animal like a fish healthy is to think like one. We are after all very distant relatives of fish (if you believe Darwin) so we should have some sort of understanding of the way they feel. Unfortunately, we don’t. We don’t...