Aquarium Healthy Care High Chair

The literal placement of such pumps is also somewhat to very inconvenient for servicing. It is for these last reasons that I personally prefer to run a manifold off a proper sump pump

With any external pump installation, please be absolutely sure to use flanking slip unions (quick disconnects) a

We change the bulbs, and the animals and algae spring back to life! That simply doesnt happen as often in the reef aquariums we maintain which use metal halide and/or Power Compact lamps. Therefore, for reef aquariums that employ VHO lamps, we recommend changing these bulbs two to three times a year in order to maintain the overall health of the environment.

The other problem we have encountered with VHO lighting is that for some

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

First, imagine what is going on between your pump (the motor, housing, volute and impeller) and the lines bringing water to and away from it... What would Elvis say? "A whole lot of shaking goin on!". Next, think on how soft PVC is and what will happen to it as time goes by with all that vibration twixt the pump and its plumbing... Small wonder so much salt creep and many leaks occur here. There are a few things one can do to avoid these messes.

1) The pump... lo

for wet-dry filters). These towers employ a media and circulation in an attempt to optimize filter surface area, and per-unit circulation/conversion efficiency. They work; and are especially useful in Large, crowded (as in wholesale) systems with widely vacillating bio-loads.

Other filters focus on the removal of the "end-product" of crowded closed marine systems, nitrates. Macro-algae and other nitrate-using live-rock constituents can only do so much in using up this hotly-debated metabolite. Algal scrubbers of different sorts, with intense light, shallow water and specialized attachment media can do amazing amounts of nitrate (e

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Aquarium fish are popular the world over. Ever wonder where the most fish are kept as pets? Here are the top ten as of the year 2005: 1. USA....