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Adding Food For Your Microbes:

A few companies make ammonia available as products to nutrify developing bacterial populations in new systems. These or fish foods of any sorts can be added in small quantities to speed along the establishment of nutrient cycling.

What Happens in Your System:

A new tank is essentially sterile, bereft of all life forms. By your making conditions of certain ranges, like temperature and salinity, you set the stage for what sorts of life will be favored. Furthermore, stocking the system w

.. While there are some dandy ball, swing and spring type check valves, they all eventually fail in these applications. Dont rely on check valves to hold water back when you want (like when servicing a pump)... and especially dont rely on them when no one is around... during power failures, at night...

About Cutting Tools:

Dont chintz yourself by trying to cut plastic pipe and even flexible tubing with anything other than

All one needs is strong, turbulent circulation.), I have chosen to not spend a great deal of my own money on them.

Aquarium Systems Natural Wave Timer:

The Natural Wave timer Photo Adam Cesnales

This is the first wavemaker device I ever purchased and I was very pleased with its performance. This unit is very much like a standard surge protector multi-strip. It is a

Apparently they have never heard the saying that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Of course they reduce the flow rate some. They use that flow to create the spin. If Hydor could create a similar device that didnt reduce the flow at all, then they should reconsider their business plan and go into the perpetual motion machine business. J

Rio Motion

I bought my first (and only) Rio Motion about two and a half years ago for my then new 1

If only our tap water was perfect and all aquarium fish could share the same water conditions, maintaining aquaria would be so much easier. Unfortunately, many tap water sources are far less than perfect. Tap water conditioners have become a mandatory part of good aquarium management. The chemistry of water from different regions of the world is as different as nature is complex. Aquarium additives allow us to easily a

Complimentary Goldfish
I've heard of people traveling with dogs, cats, and even an occasional fish. But this Chicago hotel takes vacationing with pets to a new level. They will provide a goldfish....

phosphates too high
hello again- Well my 90 gallon predator/reef tank has been up in running for about 7 months. Everything is running smoothly so far- water parameters are nitrate > 20 ppm, nitrite 0ppm, ammonia 0 ppm, pH 8.2, salinity 1.025, but phosphates are way to high it's about 5 ppm. For the past two weeks....