Aquarium Live Rock Designs Pics

Some hang-on skimmers come with surface extraction boxes, which forces the skimmer to draw water from the top of the aquarium. Sump model skimmers generally receive their water from built-in overflow boxes, bulkhead fittings, or other methods of draining surface water to the sump. Some well-designed sump models, however, still will not work properly if they are simply placed in an open sump with a fluct

There is a bit of methodology to this, and some practice involved to become facile at the operation. Do be careful not to be too fastidious in your gravel vacuuming, as the removal of too much of the useful microbial populating in captive systems can lead to bottle-necking your biological filtration. A good plan is to gravel vacuum only

aquarium live rock designs pics

Half inch acrylic is typical for a standard 22 to 24 inch tall tank but it is easy to find only 3/8 inch thick. I would recommend at least the half inch and see if you can spring for one inch.

Thicker acrylic means a stronger tank. With thicker panels you get much less bowing. Bowing is the outward warping of your tank due to water pressure. Bowing is not in and of itself dangerous but the less bowing you can observe the more margin you have in your tank and therefore the less risk of failure. On a 72" tank, sighting down the length of the tank you should notice just a little bowing, maybe an eighth of an inch with 1/2 inch acrylic and perhap

Reply to tips for aquarium shots?

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Id say a dark room, no flash, and a wide aperture. Try using different camera speeds if you have a manual setting on your camera.
Use a tripod or a stack of books to mount the camera in position, you can then try longer exposures..

Can this touch that?
Hye guys and gals, can a torch coral touch a pagoda cup with out hurting either? Where can I find what corals are safe to touch each other. Right now I have the colt and Pagoda cup, mushrooms, sinlara, brain, toadstool leather, fiji leather, green star polyps. thanks in advance.

Marshall Islands Tri Color Acropora
This is one of my favourite Acro and I would like to find out more details about the proper requirements for maintaining this species of SPS. If anyone of you out there have it in your tank, please share some of your knowledge and experiences and maybe some recent picture(s) of the Marshall Islands Tri Color Acropra as well. :bsmile: Thanks, Paul.

Aquarium lighting

Aquarium lighting in one of the key aspects in both the reef aquarium and the freshwater aquarium. It gives the animals a natural activity and rest period and it makes the plants, corals grow. Invertebrates and corals need it to survive because they have the same photosynthesis process as plants. Aquarium Lightning is not only functional, there are also colored tubes and metal halide lights.