Aquarium Fish Dictionary

aquarium fish dictionary

Biological filtration and its establishment is one of the many "controversial" aspects of marine aquarium keeping that neednt be confusing. There are many ways to get your system cycled and ready for livestock. All the above can/do work and all take time and testing.

You might ask (at least I do), "Why dont you see all this filter gear on the reefs in the wild?" Well, you kind of do. Next time youre underwater, take a look around. There really is a lot of water per unit of livestock, and lots of circulation and aeration. Notice the predominant forms of life around you; corals, sponges, bivalves... What mode of food gathering do they employ? Theyre mainly filter feeders, sieving out plankton, gametes, wastes, suspended inorganic material... thats why the waters so clear. Stuck in and amongst (and inside other life) are algae, some big, others micro

aquarium fish dictionary

Do they work? Yes; the microbes living in and on the rock readily process wastes, aerobically and without the benefit of oxygen. Protein skimming removes most remaining organic matter, and more, especially "color", may be removed with the use of activated carbon.

Jaubert/Monaco-Style Denitrators

More of an adjunct additional to other filtration forms, the "jaw-bare" (after Dr.

A "conditioning period" of time with careful feeding, testing and sparse livestock population must still be observed of course.

How Do It Know?

How can you tell how much ammonia, nitrite, nitrate you have, and why should you care? The easy answers are A) test kits and B) because at sufficient concentrations theyre deadly to your livestock. Do you really need to be aware of and measure for these parameters in order to be successful? No; youre tank will "cycle" either way. But a conscientious marine aquarist will be

Based on our experience, some of these species should not even be kept by public aquaria. Yet we have observed them wasting away, under so-called "expert" care, in public aquariums across the United States.

If a public aquarium, with all its knowledge and vast resources, cannot maintain a particular

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Every successful breeder of tropical fish knows that feeding live foods to their charges is one of the best ways to maintain healthy and active fish.

Live foods are overall high in .

newbie with some questions...
hello everyone, i am new to this site and it looks really good! anywho, my cycle finished about a week ago, and i just added a fiji blue devil to my tank today. he seems very happy and healthy, getting used to his/h.

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Will two refectors be good on a 72" long tank 150gal. Or three. Anyone know the light spread. 400 watt 20k xms. Thanks.