Posted by gerard on March 25, 2011 under Aquarium Info | 
It has been a while since I gave any tank updates so I took a few new pictures last night. The tank is about 10 months old. Time has really flown by. You will see a couple new additions from the last set of pictures like more live rock, a new sea urchin and a new Fluval 305 filter (Courtesy of our friends at ocreef.com). I still want to replace the lights and get a skimmer but funds are a little low right now. Hopefully soon! Anyway, I hope you like some of the pics.
Posted by gerard on January 28, 2011 under Aquarium Info |
If you have read the first two parts of our aquarium maintenance and troubleshooting series let me first start off by saying thanks. If you haven’t and this is the first article you are reading let me tell you that you picked a good topic. I don’t know one saltwater aquarium owner that has not had to battle with nitrates at one point in an aquariums life span.
If you have a Fish only tank then you don’t really have to worry about nitrates as much as they don’t both fish in the same way they affect invertebrates and coral. You can safely have nitrate levels above 50ppm in a tank with only fish. If you have a cleanup crew or corals you really need to keep that number as close to 0ppm as you can. read more....
Posted by gerard on January 26, 2011 under Aquarium Info |
Ok, so now you have had your aquarium up and running for a few months. Things are going great when you start to notice something strange. There is some strange green hair like “stuff” growing on your rocks. Or maybe its red and looks slimy. So maybe your remove this “stuff” but guess what? A few days or a week later its back. What is this “stuff” you ask? It’s algae. There are hundreds of different types of algae but we are going to focus on two that seem to plague aquariums everywhere. They are hair algae and red slime algae. read more....
Posted by gerard on January 24, 2011 under Aquarium Info |
When you first start your saltwater aquarium things are always good. You don’t have to worry about pesky issues like high nitrates and hair algae, or red slime and phosphates. That’s why we decided to partner with our friends at OCReef and do some articles on basic aquarium maintenance and problem troubleshooting.
The first thing we are going to talk about is water changes. This is the key to healthy aquarium. I run a 37 gallon saltwater and I change about 5-6 gallons per week. That may be a little much but I highly recommend doing a water change every 2 weeks or so. The process of doing a water change is exactly that, you take out a few gallons of water and replace it with new water. I would recommend doing about 20% of your total water volume. So for example if you have a 40 gallon tank you would change 8 gallons every 2 to 4 weeks depending on your water parameters. read more....
Posted by gerard on July 26, 2010 under Aquarium Info |
Here are some of the latest pics. The tank is a little over 2 months old now. I have 1 damsel, 1 six line wrasse and 1 pink spotted goby. A couple red leg hermit crabs and 1 unidentified coral that came on my live rock and has tripled in size.
