Salt Water Fsh Aquarium

Old, salty dogfish however (experienced aquarists, that is), have earned honorary degrees in chemistry, carpentry, plumbing and electrical engineering to become reef aquarists. Hopefully, some well-prepared and researching new folks will read this and be spared the gauntlet of powerhead pits just the same. Advanced aquarists are charged to pass the word along in kind if they agree.

Harnessing an external water pump, a manifold of PVC is to be plumbed with a single feed line. [Please re

Intervention methods by aquarists; water changes, chemical filtrants, sped-up complete biological cycling (wet-dry filtration, algal scrubbers, abundant, vigorous live rock, macro-algae) can be brought into play to successfully limit the "bottle-neck" accumulation of nitrate ("8").

Expediency and Rates of Reaction:

Depending on such factors as the physical format of food/wastes provided, temperature, bacteria population dynamics, and oxygen supply, biological filtration in your system can be a forgotten breeze or an unending nightmare.

Allow me to elaborat

I recommend you to use as big a tank as you can for your gar, and I wouldnt recommend keeping gars in an aquarium smaller than 200 Gallon/720 L. And that should be considered a minimum; a 400 gallon/1400 L tank is preferable.

The tank should be decorated in accordance with gar behaviour. Gars are ambush predators, and as such th

I believe in gravity, its always let me down. Either provide real (as in large) overflow lines should the worst happen... or do away with silly notions of pumping to and from system containers to keep them balanced. Wont work.

About Quieting Down Overflow Lines:

A few things can be done to lessen the gurgling, sucking noise in open plumbing lines...

1) Oversiz

Some water gardeners continue to feed their fish until they no longer come to the surface. I stop feeding my pond fish when the water falls below 42 F.
There is no need to worry about "frozen fish" if a section of the pond is at least 18 inches deep. Pond fish will seek the deepest part of the pond and over-winter there until the water warms in the spring. If your pond is less than 18 inches deep, the fish may freeze during a harsh winter. Check with your local pond supplier if you live in an area with harsh winters.
Some water gardeners with shallow ponds attempt to keep their koi and goldfish in kiddie pools or aquariums set up in a cool basem

OT:Found this on the Yahoo news area, made me laugh so hard.
Sorry but I thought this was too funny :laughroll . http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/35244816.

Common Cichlid Diseases
Like all fish kept in tanks, Cichlids are prone to disease. The artificial environment and closed system are the perfect breeding grounds for pathogens and parasites. Of course, wild fish get diseases, but these go unseen by everyone but fishermen and wildlife biologists. The best cure is always ....

microbubbles
hi everyone, i notice that sometimes my power head shoots out microbubbles...anyone know why, it looks like it burps and shoots them out. Also will too much flow at the surface cause microbubbles. My skimmer cause a little bit of bubbles but tonight on one side of my tank there have been an exceptional amount of them. any suggestions?.

Are airstones bad for reef tanks?
I have noticed that nobody uses airstones in their reef tanks like people with freshwater tanks do to decorate. Are they bad for reefs?.