Bacterial Counts in Reef Aquarium Water: Baseline Values and Modulation by Carbon Dosing, Protein Skimming, and Granular Activated Carbon Filtration
Departments of Chemistry (Ken S. Feldman, Allison A. Place) and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Sanjay Joshi), The Pennsylvania State University, University... Read more.
Elemental Analysis of Skimmate: What Does a Protein Skimmer Actually Remove from Aquarium Water?
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.
Further Studies on Protein Skimmer Performance
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.
The Development of a Method for the Quantitative Evaluation of Protein Skimmer Performance
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.
Total Organic Carbon (TOC) and the Reef Aquarium: an Initial Survey, Part II
Editor’s Note: This article continues from last month’s Advanced Aquarist.
Figure 8. Invertebrate population... Read more.
Total Organic Carbon (TOC) and the Reef Aquarium: an Initial Survey, Part I
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.
Coral Coloration and Incident Light: A Photographic Essay
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.
Granular Activated Carbon, Part 2: Modeling of Operational Parameters for Dissolved Organic Carbon Removal from Marine Aquaria
Results and Discussion
Using the Langmuir Isotherm Model to Calculate the Total Binding Capacity of Hydrocarbon2 (HC2)
Solutions of basic blue 3 dye (BB3) and,... Read more.
粒状活性炭 その1：海洋水槽からの溶存有機炭素除去のための操作パラメータのモデリング
Introduction
GAC 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.
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