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Systems without such symbiotic animals, however, will still require careful consideration of hardware beyond aesthetics for the cultivation of desirable plants and algae or attempts to prevent undesirable life forms (diatoms, cyanobacteria, etc). Numerous other organisms on and in common living substrates (sand and rock) are influenced with light quality in kind. Good decisions with lighting applications will help ensure that new aquarists start well, and that established aquarists fare better with keeping and culturing the most desirable marine creatures under at

However, many of these mechanical media are victims of their own success, if you will, and begin to accumulate large quantities of gross particulate and detritus, which slowly breaks down, and leads to the formation and accumulation of nitrate and phosphate.

By regularly cleaning and replacing these mechanical media, it is possible for the hobbyist to remove large quantities of undesirable matter from the system before it begins to break down and degrade the aquariums water quality. Many of these filter media need to be cleaned and/or replaced se

Also, there was no good way of purging the filter of air when it was reattached to the hoses. The user just had to hope there was enough water in the hoses to start a siphon and to fill the filter with water. At some point, Hagen began adding a ball syringe (similar to what one uses to clear mucus from a babys airway) for use to clear the tubing of air. These worked ok, but it was an added piece of equipment to keep track of and if the tubing had completely lost its water, the user had to pump the ball thing like crazy. All in all though, these were a workable design and could be counted on for good performanc

Question about rock
I am not sure if this is the place for this, but I had to start somewhere. I am going to be doing a 90gal. soon and wanted to know if I can use limestone as a base for my reef? I want to fill the tank with the limestone and then se.

Icecap, lumenarc, reeflux... not working! help!!!
Ok, so I’m having troubles with my lighting. I have a Icecap 250watt ballast, a lumenarc reflector and a reeflux 10k bulb. Problem is, it’s not lighting up! The bulb will sometimes flicker once for a fraction of a second but then i.

Blue Algae , cyanobacteria

Blue Algae ( cyanobacteria )

Most aquarium hobbyists know and fear this type of algae, w.