Figure 1. Culture of bacteria (Pseudomonas sp.??) on marine agar isolated from larval rearing tanks at OI.Aloha everyone!It’s been a while since my last post, but it’s been a busy few months. Though it's the kind of busy you don't realize until [...]
The majority of us know at least one fellow reefer who swears by dosing his/her reef aquarium with vodka. This seemingly counterintuitive act is often believed to have beneficial effects on the overall health and appearance of one’s reef aquarium. But how is this possible? Why vodka? My 24 [...]
Some of the old-school reefers (or if you had a freshwater tank) must remember using Bio-Balls, Ceramics or Siporax for bacteria fixation about 10 or more years ago. The disadvantage pointed at that time was that these media will enhance the [...]
At some point or another all aquarists have seen and come into contact with Cyanobacteria. Even though it is sometimes referred to as "Slime Algae" it is in fact a photosynthetic bacteria and some believe it to be the "primordial ooze" from which life first awkwardly flopped its way into [...]
