Toilet cistern aquarium

Hardly a product a responsible reefer should use or endorse, but the concept is still pretty amusing. But don’t worry - the fishes are isolated from the flush water and won’t be flushed away. That's a relief. Via Fosfor Gadgets...

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Posted by on 13 May 2006

Picoreef practicalities

Location isn’t the only problem with the picoreef, though. I really think that the tank is too small…or the rock in the tank is too big. I have a really difficult time changing the water or even testing the water...

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Posted by on 11 March 2006

Awesome acropora photos

TamarindThai of the ReefFrontiers forum has posted some amazing photos of his acropora tank. Check out the colour of this baby! Click through for more photos. Via ReefFrontiers...

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Posted by on 3 February 2006

Magnesium and its effect on coralline algae

Since magnesium is a component of the pigment chlorphyll, it is required for all pigmented algae. Magnesium is also required for the formation of the enzyme catalase (Round, 1965), which serves the protective function of breaking down hydrogen peroxide into...

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Posted by on 20 January 2006

Caught a coral larva in my tank today!

just wanted to share with you that I caught what I believe is a coral larva in my reef tank today. Judging by the color and shape, I am guessing it is a brown polyp larva (also since they...

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Posted by on 18 January 2006

Fishy Skybridge

Back in my FOLR+cheato days, I built this up to link my 90gal with my 55gal. The fish really seemed to love it, many would take the trip back and forth about 50-100+ times a day. They would actaully have...

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Posted by on 13 January 2006

Engineer goby, jawfish, and small tankmates

have a 90 gal reef and planning to upgrade to a 210 gal. I like small and medium sized fishes as weel as crustaceans. I am interested in keeping a trio of jawfish or convict blenny / engineer goby. I...

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Posted by on 11 January 2006

Cleaner shrimp question

I have one cleaner shrimp, and to my knowledge it has eaten 2 of my blue legged hermits!!! Maybe more. I have counted them and I used to have 10. Right this second it is in the process of eating...

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Posted by on 11 January 2006

Power Backup

How To Make a Power Back-Up Unit from a UPS and a 12 Volt Battery All too often the power can go out for many reasons, and at any time. To protect yourself from the possible loss of animals...

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Posted by on 6 January 2006