Having a green thumb is the term that is often assigned to people who are good at keeping indoor and/or outdoor plants, whether they be for consumption or their attractiveness. However, when it comes to keeping or maintaining a beautiful coral garden in a closed system there doesn’t appear to be a similar term.…
As many of you know, I live on the tip of Cape Cod in a small town called Provincetown, a town that has a year-round population of somewhere around 3,000 people but is capable of having close to 50,000 visitors per day during the summer months.…
As some of the readers of Advanced Aquarist and before that Aquarium Frontiers may know I am the editor of both publications. Several years ago due to the cost of electricity and a variety of other things I converted my 10-foot reef tank into a Dutch style freshwater planted tank.…
Reefs Magazine is very pleased to be able to continue our in-depth conversation with the inimitable Terry Siegel. RM: Earlier on you mentioned the Berlin Method of reef keeping. Can you say a little more about that? TS: Julian [Sprung] of course was an exponent of...
Although this article will deal with my own experiences with surgeonfish dating back to the 1970s, before turning to that allow me to provide the reader with some information about the family of surgeonfishes, all of whom belong to the family Acanthuridae.…
Since I’ve been keeping in captivity marine fish for better than 40-years I think it might be of interest to some of our readers for me to do a series of editorials on some of the more problematic fish I’ve had over those years.…
As I promised in my last editorial here is an update on the progress of my 10-foot, 500-gallon freshwater community aquarium. Along with a series of photos I just took I’ll record how I maintain the biotope, with some water quality measurements.…
In this last issue for 2010 we provide our readers with three new articles. One article is by Dana Riddle: Ecotech Marine’s MP-40w ES Propeller Pump and New EcoSmart Driver. As is typical of Dana’s work for Advanced Aquarist his product review provides the reader with factual data.…
As many of you know I have been keeping tropical fish, plants, and invertebrates for over 60-years — both freshwater and saltwater. When I think back to my earlier years in our hobby I realize that our knowledge of what it is and how do we keep it alive has increased enormously over those years.…
Reef keepers have known for a long time that reef aquariums which contain a large number of fish that are well fed tend to have an increasing amount of phosphate in the water. This is a serious problem, because a phosphate level greater than 0.5 ppm interferes with the ability of hermatypic corals to calcify.…