Posted by gerard on May 17, 2010 under Aquarium Info | 
I took these pictures a couple days ago. Cleanup crew is in. I got 12 red leg hermit’s, 10 astrea snails and 2 Mexican turbo snails to start off with. I’m planning on a doing a water change at the 2 week mark since the tank has cycled already. Then I will be going for a new fish. After that I will probably not doing anything for the next month except make sure everything stays stable. I’ll post another update in a few days.
Posted by gerard on March 10, 2010 under Saltwater Fish |
Balistes vetula, also known as the queen triggerfish, is a reef dwelling fish of the Atlantic Ocean. It is occasionally caught as a gamefish, and sometimes kept in marine aquariums.
Appearance
It is a large fish that reaches 60cm in length. It is typically brown with blue lines on its fins and head.
In the aquarium
As one of the largest and most aggressive of the triggerfish, this fish is rarely a good choice as a resident in a marine aquarium. It is however a hardy fish for those who can provide it with a proper environment. Because it grows so large and so quickly the ideal aquarium for this fish is a 500 gallon aquarium, although some sources argue they can be kept is as little as a 125 gallon aquarium when it achieves its adult size of two feet it is unlikely to thrive.
Its diet consists of invertebrates. In aquariums shrimp, squid, clams, octopus, scallops, and crab are all good choices of food.
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Posted by gerard on February 13, 2009 under News |
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Posted by gerard on November 8, 2008 under Products & Reviews |
Seachem just released a premium line of reef products. Here’s the rundown on the first one we looked at. It’s called Calcification
Calcium and carbonates are essential to all coral growth. If either becomes deficient, coral growth will cease, followed by a rapid decline in coral health.
Natural reef waters contain about 390 mg/L of calcium. There is no valid scienti?c reason to exceed that concentration in the reef aquarium. To do so does not significantly impact on corals, but it does make it more dif?cult to maintain an adequate alkalinity of 4–6 meq/L. Natural sea water has an alkalinity of about 2.5 meq/L, but this is generally not adequate buffering for a closed system. High ionic calcium concentrations (above 400 mg/L) and adequate alkalinity (about 5 meq/L) are not easily compatible, particularly if magnesium is low (see balance ™ and ions™).
Calcification™ is a concentrated (140,000 mg/L) optimized blend of ionic and bioavailable gluconate-complexed calcium designed to restore and maintain calcium to levels found in natural seawater, without affecting pH. These two forms of calcium are combined in calcification™ to provide the hobbyist with a convenient way to ensure peak coral growth and health.
Ionic calcium is readily available, while the gluconate-complexed calcium confers several benefits. The uncharged calcium in calcification™ is readily absorbed with less physiological work than is required for the absorption of ionic calcium. Using calcification™, it is not necessary to maintain the excessively high concentrations of calcium (about 450 mg/L or more) often recommended by others. In fact, excellent growth of corals and coraline algae is achieved with total calcium concentrations as low as 300 mg/L. Used up to four times recommended maintenance dose, the gluconate polymer will not accumulate or encourage the growth of undesirable algae. The polymer itself is bene?cial as a food source not only to the corals and other invertebrates, but also to denitrifying bacteria, actually promoting the natural anaerobic denitri?cation process in live rock and other substrate. Furthermore, the use of this gluconate polymer allows calcium, strontium, and magnesium to be utilized more readily than they would otherwise and also helps to stabilize them in solution without depleting alkalinity.
Some prefer not to use complexed calcium because of concern about adding organics to the aquarium. This is not a valid concern. The amount of organics added with complexed calcium is insignificantly small when compared to the organics released by most reef creatures, even in a no feed, no nutrients approach. Since complexed calcium products employ lactate or gluconate, the naive misconception that these products contain sugars has arisen. While these components are related to sugars, they are oxidized aldehydes and do not react or behave as sugars. Polygluconate contains no nitrogen or phosphorous, thus it is biologically impossible for it to lead to algae growth in a properly maintained reef system.
Unlike competing products that require multi-day interval dosing when combined with carbonate supplements, calcification™ can be dosed daily and within minutes of our eight.four™ as well as the entire aquavitro ™ reef line.
see more at www.aquavitro.com
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