Hobby Aquarium Light Fixtures

If "Brand B" does not perform quite as well, but is affordable, always in stock, is well supported by the manufacturer and can be sold for a respectable profit, many more retailers will choose to carry it. Remember that this is a business, first and foremost. If your store is run by a hobbyist and carries all of the latest high end equipment and is a hang out for all of the local a

nstead utilize a wet/dry trickle filter with a very shallow layer of gravel merely for decoration and to cover the bottom pane of glass

The other interesting option with these powerheads is the needle wheel that is included to regulate the injection of air into the water stream coming from the pump. While this is kind of neat, it is not really that useful or necessary. I generally forgo the air injection in all marine setups because the bubbles bursting at the surface of the water creates far too much splash and salt spray for my liking. A

5) Share! It is amazing how much help people are willing to give when they realize that you are offering a particularly nice specimen that they have always wanted. Equipment that they didnt even remember they had may magically appear or they might

Once again, degrading environmental conditions are generally the root cause of difficulties. Isolation and treatment in a separate system, not the main.

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There are several very different, and exciting, kinds of cold water marine environments, rocky shore, mud flat, varying tidal environments, each with distinctively different mixes of life. By all means please read my favorite "text", Thomas Niesens Marine Biology Co

I feel that this amount of maintenance is reasonable given how much I liked the performance of this unit.

As for negatives, the units are a little big and unattractive, but in my mind so are powerheads in a display. Either can be dealt with using strategic placement and concealment in, around, or behind the aquascaping. I have also heard of some people complaining about these units because they redu

Fish Out of Water
Although Boni Comandante Jr.’s technique is intended to ship fish used for food, the idea of putting fish to 'sleep' and then transporting them without water is an interesting one.....

30g Oceanic Cubes - What Lights Do You Have?
Just wondering what lights folks are running on 30 or 50g Oceanic's? If you have pics, please post them. Thanks..

A living background in the aquarium

java moss

Java Moss : Vesicularia dubyana

The aquarium background is one of the most challenging decorations to create or buy, when properly setup it has both an aesthetic and a functional value. There .