What? Dosing nitrates to get rid of cyano? A common piece of advice when battling Cyanobacteria or cyano is to lower nutrients since cyano can be fueled by high phosphates or nitrates (cyano can also pop up due to elevated organics). So wouldn’t it be counter-intuitive to raise one of these [...]
$500 for a frag? Well, today there are a number of frags out there fetching this price but years ago this sort of price point was not as common. An exception was the $500 Efflo. According to reeffarmers, the original owner of this Acropora efflorescens did not want to part with the coral since it [...]
Finbit is a compact water quality tester that promises more functionality and features than anything [...]
So you have a reef tank and you also have an affinity for keeping marine angelfish, a potentially bad combination since many angelfish have a reputation for snacking on and destroying corals. But wait, options do exist! As I mentioned in a prior blog post, many reef keepers, including myself, have [...]
For the last 4 weeks I have been running my 187 gallon reef tank without a skimmer as sort of an experiment. A few months ago I lost a number of corals due to what I believe were very low levels of phosphate in the tank. I run an ARID algae reactor and it does a great job pulling out nutrients. [...]
In this video I am going to take you through my weekly routine on how I clean my Pax Bellum ARID algae reactor and harvest the chaeto. I am then going to turn it over to Tristan Wilson, the owner of Pax Bellum, so he can demonstrate the proper way to swap out a light tube. The new light tubes from [...]
Are you thinking about setting up a live webcam for your aquarium or something else you would like to broadcast or monitor in real time? If so, read on! For years I have employed webcams to monitor my reef tanks while I was away from home. They provide me with peace of mind when I am on [...]
While we were at Reef A Palooza New York, Hanna Instruments’ booth caught our eye. For those of you who don’t know about Hanna Instruments, they are one of the industry leaders in the water testing world and they are wildly popular for going against color matching liquid to digital [...]