Apollo Aquarium Pumps

apollo aquarium pumps

Downdraft skimmers are inherently expensive due to their large size, raw materials needed for production (thick acrylic), and the amount of skilled craftsmanship needed for fabrication. They also require a large water pump, which adds to both their initial cost and ongoing operational expenses; for many smaller tanks they are overkill with regard for efficacy and purchase price. Most units are also somewhat to very unfriendly to clean and serv

Each microcosm can be maintained with less effort and assumedly more enjoyment for the aquarist by assembling animals from niches with like physical requirements of light, water movement and composition.

With a bead on the needs of your collection (low light, moderate light, high light), the decision between standard fluorescent, VHO or power compact lamps, and metal halides is hardly as difficult as it might appear. For some clarification on the above categorization

The super-duper, no-lie, hand-shake, dyed-in-the-wool measure of whether your particular set-up can be determined by two easy observations: 1) After feeding, and cleaning does your skimmer system collect a whole bunch of material and at some point stop, as in dry and/or no foam?, and 2) If when #1 hap

Reply to tips for aquarium shots?

Photography is a still of life posted a reply:

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.

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 seed it in areas with high quality live rock. If I cannot use....