We are near the Pacific coast and a large public aquarium affiliated with a large university. So, we first tried to pick-up saltwater pumped from the ocean and sand filtered by the public aquarium and made available to local hobbyists…
Now that you have decided to do salt water changes, the next step is to plan. What equipment will you need? How big of a change do you want to make?Where will new saltwater come from? Make it, buy it?…
We were lazy last month and missed a water change. But we notice NO deleterious impact on the corals or fish. So the schedule now will be a 25 gallon salt water change every two months.
Don’t fear it. Use it as a filter medium and then scrape it off when you don’t like the appearance. Don’t let the algae build up get to the point that it is decaying and sending bad nutrients back into…
Not just Butterfly fish, we try to raise aerial butterflies also
We often call corals, “orchids of the sea”. We can’t get along without the land-locked versions either.
It’s time for a new bulb, and a new pump. Around the six month replacement time, the original bulb burned out. In an effort to get max dwell time we may have had too little flow. We ordered and replaced…
We just noticed a fair amount of white slime in our freshwater tank used for adding water to the system to replace evaporation. The system is coming off-line for clean-up and re-evaluation. A 50 foot RODI tube will be run…
We are making a minor change to make the process a little easier and to save a few dollars. The idea is make about 48 gallons of new salt water at one time. We will stay with a 24 gallon…
We live near a coast, so we could buy from a local fish store (LFS) natural saltwater (NSW), or artificial saltwater at $1.00 per gallon, or make it ourselves from RODI water and a salt mix. At this time, we…