60 Gallon Aquarium

g. Hagens Cycle and fresh Fritzyme ), others are "not so reliable. How can you tell if yours is working? See "Testing" below. It might go w/o saying that using the two protocols above: "Live Rock/Sand" and/or "Used Media" with these culture/products is better than any one approach, but I said it just the same.

Time Frame: May seem li

We change the bulbs, and the animals and algae spring back to life! That simply doesnt happen as often in the reef aquariums we maintain which use metal halide and/or Power Compact lamps. Therefore, for reef aquariums that employ VHO lamps, we recommend changing these bulbs two to three times a year in order to maintain the overall health of the environment.

The other problem we have encountered with VHO lighting is that for some

Of course this might not be practical for your pet fish but the more closely you can resemble his natural diet the better off your fish will be. If you can give him live food once in a while that will be great, in the interim you can feed him frozen foods, tubifex worms and brine shrimp. This fish will eat fl

And as much fun as it is to collect the coolest coral fragments out there and show them off to your friends, there WILL come a time when you are hauling all of those same frags out of the tank and into temporary storage when your six year old cracks the side of the display tank with a pool ball or some other calamity occurs.

2) Study! Spend time on the internet, in books and watching nature shows on reefs BEFORE you get your animals. Understand the anim

V.) before being returned to the main via a small centrifugal pump.

To their discredit, most types of wet-dries suffer the same complaints as their predecessor undergravels; fluctuating pH, loss of alkaline reserve, excessive nitrate production. Better than all the wacky high-priced moist media, came the next wave in reef filtration, named in honor of its German heritage.

New Corycat Group

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