Posted by gerard on March 16, 2011 under Products & Reviews | 
The Marine Aquarium Conference of North America (MACNA) is the oldest marine aquarium conference in North America. Every year a club who is a member of the Marine Aquarium Society of America (MASNA) is chosen to host MACNA.
This year MACNA is going to be at HyVee hall in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The dates are September 9th, 10th, and 11th, 2011. You can purchase your passes now on the MACNA website at www.macna2011.com. Vendor spots look like they are still available as well.
Check it out!
Posted by gerard on March 14, 2011 under Products & Reviews |
Check out OCReef.com coupon page for some sweet deals on money off of your next ocreef order. Offers are valid for a limited time only so head on over soon!
Some of the coupons include :
10% off the Reef Octopus Skimmer Model OCT-BH-1000 and 10% off the AquaC EV-180 Protein Skimmer.
Posted by gerard on under Products & Reviews |
OCReef’s Live Marine Copepods 10 oz bottle/container - OCReef.com Special: Buy One Get One Free
Features:
-Cultivated in ozonated, purified saltwater.
-Only fed the highest quality phytoplankton, to ensure the safety of adding directly to your aquarium.
-High nutritional content, full of essential fatty acids (HUFAs). read more....
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....
