Freshwater Aquarium Species

It is especially unfair to these fish, who eventually join the ranks of millions that have died needlessly, their bodies decomposing in our dumps and landfills, when just a few short weeks or months before, they had been thriving in the ocean. Are we trying to make you feel bad? No! We are simply trying to open your eyes to one of the darker sides of the hobby we all enjoy.

Glass (fused bead) types are superior in that they produce bubbles of uniform size (optimum is about 1 mm in diameter), do not clog easily, may be readily cleaned and re-used and dont break. Ceramic/sand, plastic wand varieties are worse for the opposite reasons.

Regarding "wood" mechanical diffusers; these are suitable for air-driven protein skimmers only; the fine bubbles they produce for a while are dangerous to livestock, known to cause embolism and other environmental gas- diseases. My strong recommendation is to utilize a separate dedicat

freshwater aquarium species

Brave New World Technology:

Fluidized bed, algal (turf) scrubbers, anaerobic denitraters, and oh, so much more are on the cutting-edge of new ways to biologically filter water.

Fluidized bed filters are additional borrowed technology from the sewage treatment industry (along with novel "out-gassing" rings,

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.

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The deep gravel bed also provides a home for burrowing motile invertebrates which feed on solid organic mulm and detritus. These burrowing animals, which are either purchased and/or cultivate on their own from live rock, serve to keep the plenum porous and aid in the slow movement of water through the system. "Burrowing" sea cucumbers that serve this function well may be purchased from a good aquarium store.

The aquarium is stocked with live rock, but not as much as is typically used. The live rock construct should be suspended above the gravel bed, allowing water to move freely

Can this touch that?
Hye guys and gals, can a torch coral touch a pagoda cup with out hurting either? Where can I find what corals are safe to touch each other. Right now I have the colt and Pagoda cup, mushrooms, sinlara, brain.