Author: Ken S. Feldman

Departments of Chemistry (Ken S. Feldman, Allison A. Place) and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Sanjay Joshi), The Pennsylvania State University, University... Read more.

The rather counterintuitive observation that protein skimmers remove only 20 – 35% of the measurable Total Organic Carbon (TOC) in reef aquarium water (Feldman,... Read more.

We published a paper on skimmer performance in the January 2009 issue of Advanced Aquarist magazine that detailed, for the first time, an experimental methodology... Read more.

Purifying aquarium water with a protein skimmer represents one of the major strategies for maintaining water quality. This singular piece of equipment can often... Read more.

Editor’s Note: This article continues from last month’s Advanced Aquarist.        Figure 8. Invertebrate population... Read more.

These questions will be probed through review of the relevant literature on (non-aquarium) field studies and by experimentation on marine aquarium water samples... Read more.

Introduction Viewing a reef tank as “kinetic art” has sensitized many aquarists to the complex multifactoral relationships between a host of tank parameters... Read more.

Results and DiscussionUsing the Langmuir Isotherm Model to Calculate the Total Binding Capacity of Hydrocarbon2 (HC2) Solutions of basic blue 3 dye (BB3) and,... Read more.

IntroductionGAC and the Aquarium The use of granular activated carbon (GAC) for decolorizing marine aquarium water has had a long and successful history. In fact,... Read more.