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In fact, it is a good general rule of thumb to not add anything to your aquarium unless you understand exactly what it will do to the water quality, what benefit you expect from the product, and what the long-term implications are for its use.

Use of Chemical Filtration Media

An excellent means of nutrient control and export is to utilize some form of chemical filtration in your system. There are many different products on the market that are formulated to remove everything from ammonia to phosphat

They tend to concentrate and focus light in a limited pattern like a beam and are not often the most efficient distribution of light. Suspended lamps are usually convenient and easy to work around, however, and are helpful in living spaces where heat (as with an enclosed fixed or independent canopy) is an issue. Enclosed, fixed canopies are the largest and most cumbersome forms of housing, but they usually offer the best distribution of light through the freedom of extra space for hardware. Novel adaptations for moving such large

The reasons for this are several and mostly obvious. The most important are:

1) To remove as much "other stuff" from the water so that the U.V. radiation will operate with highest efficiency.

2) Beneficial microbes will be preserved and their activity promoted.

An Idealized Filtration System

Flow Rates:

Dwell time, the amount of time a given quantity of water is exposed to a given concentration of radiation may be roughly gauged at about twenty gallons per hour flow per watt U.V.. This value or more watts per unit flow is adequate for providing a good kill rate per p

Fish Across The World
Aquarium fish are popular the world over. Ever wonder where the most fish are kept as pets? Here are the top ten as of the year 2005: 1. USA....