Reef Aquarium Techniques

reef aquarium techniques

Water Changes:

We still like to vacuum our gravel beds once a week. This is done after-hours with an "exploded-end" commercial vacuum fitted to a good 3/4 inch hose to waste. Refilling of tanks is accomplished through an auto-fill fitted into the freshwater sumps and new saltwater mix made up in the marine sumps.

Water is returned to the separate aquaria via centrifugal pumping and plastic pipe and valves. Additionally we use air driven under-gravel filtration and aerators in many of our aquaria for b

Note that in most cases, this does not necessarily mean they cannot be kept successfully in a home aquarium. We just want you to be careful!

Size: Grow too large for almost all home aquariums, requiring more than 1000 gallons, and in many cases, several thousand gallons.

Stress: Those species that are very sensitive and stress easily, do not transport well, and are susceptible to parasites and disease. This classification also

reef aquarium techniques

Some of the basic elements that should come to mind for big systems include: Filtration, Lighting, Dcor, and Husbandry. Providing adequate biological filtration is surely the most daunting of the aforementioned. Aquarists familiar with pond-keeping and aquatic gardening are at a decided advantage here. The cultivation of nitrifying faculties for a large marine bioload is fundamentally not unlike keeping koi and other pond species. One

This will allow fast and tidy removal of pumps for cleaning, servicing or replacement. Neglect to heed this aspect of proper installation has often resulted in many hours of hard labor and frustration by aquarists that have hard-plumbed pumps inline and then were faced with draining a tank to remove them.

In closing, by category, external direct drive pumps are admittedly not quite as energy efficient a

reef aquarium techniques

These low maintenance units are great not only for driving down the accumulation of the "end products" of aerobic nitrification, but also as harbors and cultures of interstitial fauna that can add a great deal of reef fish nutrition. To top it all off, the reductive nature of the denitrator dissolves the calcareous sand, making minera

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