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Tip of the Day – 5/23/2013
It’s easy to get into bad habits with your aquarium maintenance routine, and once those habits are well entrenched into your day to day activities, they are very hard to change. Some of these bad habits might include dumping fish store water into your tank after acclimating a fish or using the same net for [...]
Tip of the Day – 5/22/2013
When purchasing aquarium equipment and livestock over the net, specifically from online forum sites, take multiple precautions for each transaction. For starters, research the seller and make sure he or she has a good reputation. Once you’re confident enough to pull the trigger, use a payment service like PayPal. Most aquarium keepers who are selling [...]
Tip of the Day – 5/21/2013
Plastic light diffuser, otherwise known as eggcrate, is one of those tools of the aquarium trade that has tons of different uses. Besides making for the perfect frag rack, eggcrate can also serve to block jumping fish from escaping the open top of an aquarium, separate unruly and aggressive fish, or even act as an [...]
Tip of the Day – 5/20/2013
When corals start to rapidly decline in your aquarium with no obvious reason in sight, there are a few paths to take to prevent all out destruction. For one, don’t lose your cool and panic. Chances are that the problem is simple and fixable. Once you’ve gathered yourself, prepare and perform a water change. This [...]
Tip of the Day – 5/17/2013
If you have a particularly picky significant other, chances are you have a hard time getting an aquarium set up in your home. While you long for your hobby to be right in front of you when you come home and kick off your shoes, your loved ones might be more concerned about splashing water [...]
Tip of the Day – 5/15/2013
When securing shelves and hanging brackets under your aquarium stand, be sure to keep track of all of the screws and nails that you use. It’s really easy to drop these items into the water, and most of them will corrode over a very short period of time, releasing metals into your water. If you [...]
Tip of the Day – 5/14/2013
When it comes to the eyesight of fish, they may not all be created equally, but there are many species that have excellent vision. One such group consists of the shrimp gobies. These tiny little bottom-dwellers often form symbiotic relationships with the nearly blind pistol shrimp, which often construct tunnels that the two share. But [...]
Tip of the Day – 5/13/2013
Corals have a variety of feeding methods they utilize in order to gather food from their environment. Most of the time, short tentacles emerge from a coral at nighttime, giving it a much more extended reach. Certain species have what are called sweeper tentacles, which are significantly longer than the normal tentacles and can pack [...]
Tip of the Day – 5/10/2013
Fish typically get very excited at feeding time, often going into a frenzy and possibly even damaging other fish as the food floats by. But not every fish will get worked up. In fact, some fish won’t even come out when the food is first introduced to the aquarium. This behavior can be limited to [...]
Tip of the Day – 5/9/2013
Whether you’re moving an aquarium or just performing routine maintenance activities, activated carbon can really save your butt. The carbon can remove harmful chemicals and polish the water, giving you the cleanest water imaginable for your fish and corals. During times of aquarium distress, such as when a fish dies or when an anemone wanders [...]
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