Saltwater Fish Tank Fish

There is a finite and practical stocking density to any aquarium. Rules of thumb such as X inches/cm of fish per gallon are really inappropriate without perspective. Beyond the obvious differences and potentials to various filtration methodologies when placed on the same sized aquarium, there is the very real matter of mass versus length. Ten dainty cardinalfish at 3 cm (1.2 inch) each do not place the same

Ive used this wonderful color-in-by-the-numbers book for high school to university instruction to teach local (California) near-shore marine biology.

California Reef Specialists, 740 Tioga Ave., Sand City, CA 93955, 408-394-7271 produce a handy, informative newsletter on temperate reefs as well as supplying cold water organisms and "live-rock". They have David Wrobels excellent "cool" booklets too.

.. water having to pile up over overflows, shooting out of discharges... with no chance to provide some sort of muffling manifold on their ends...

2) Vent them! Provide tees attached to overflow lines (higher than the tank) and discharges (to slow down the water, coalesce air...) to aid the water along gently. The former has been done for many decades but is popularly credited to a "Durso" designation (www.dursostandpipes.com/) and can be p

Youre lightings ready to go with a fool-proof restraint and ventilation. Next is the most confusing, least understood area of setting-up; filtration.

Filters are a big category with two major ways of looking at them, by type and how they work. Lets do both. First of all some filter basics review. Filters of any sort are designed to selectively remov

All that dry-goods assortment at the dealers comes with accompanying literature spelling out their use for particular applications.

This Section Heading will offer you the very basics of all marine systems set-up; the use of the common elements to every kind of salt aquarium. The following sub-Sections will delve into the particulars of the most popular specialties of the hobby, the fish-only, fishes and invertebrates, reef set-ups et cetera.

This is a very careful

Reply to hi from discus breader in Portugal

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They are very interesting pictures that you have there. I am big fan of discuss fish, unfortun.

vermetid snails, putting them to good use. :)
i have alot of vermetid snails in my aquarium. until an hour ago, i deemed them to be a usless,ugly and very messy. turns out i was wrong, they still are ugly and messy, but certainly not useless. i have 2 snails very close together on a huge gsp rock (approx 2-3.

RBTA fs must go!
I have one last RBTA and I need to sell it, I took it out of my reef because I no longer had room for it in the tank. I Just put it in a JBJ nano temporary untill I can sell it. it is about 8'' across and is very healthy. I need to sell it fast so anyone who is inter.