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Water flow issues can literally make or break a tank. Some popular fishes express neurotic behaviors like "pacing" in slow flow environments: swimming back and forth against the glass relentlessly as if pursuing their own reflection. Some tangs, for example, will cease this behavior with increased water flow. Sessile reef invertebrates depend on accurately applied water flow to bring food to them and to carry waste away. Their very lives will be threatened furthermore in poor flow environments over time and in ways that some aquarists can easily overlook, like encroachment by alg

There are some incandescent bulbs used in inexpensive aquarium light fixtures for small freshwater aquariums. Incandescent bulbs use a tungsten filament which glows hot as voltage passes through it. Incandescent bulbs produce a lot of heat per watt of output, a

The gearing routinely gets gummed up and fails to create the back and forth flow rendering them to nothing more than a standard powerhead. And, if that was not bad enough, they are not particularly powerful units either.

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As I stated briefly before, wavemakers are not necessary to get good coral growth or coloration, but they can add a dramatic visible effect to the di

I also dont want to say that all Rio pumps will eventually go bad. They are plenty of people that use them and never have problems. However, I have never had another brand of pump give me an electrical shock and I seem to have had a disproportionate number of this brand fail when compared to other brands I have used.

ZooMed Powersweeps

I have to say, these units are an absolutely brilliant idea. A powerhead that has a built in oscillating nozzle to create random currents in the wa

In reverse flow, a pre-filtered powerhead pumps water down the lift tube and under the filter plate where it can radiate up through the gravel bed. Reverse flow undergravel filters are just as biologically efficient as conventional ones, but some aquarists believe that the substrate is kept cleaner because the flow of water is constantly lifting dirt off of the gravel and up into th

Mud sump
Hi, my husband is starting a new 170 gal tank with a 100 gal mud sump for me. Is it ok to take maybe a third of the mud from my 50 gal mud sump and use it like a sourdough starter? How long would it take for it to cycle? Thanks.