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 [...]
Tip of the Day – 5/8/2013
Moving an aquarium is tough. Besides being a physically demanding ordeal, the entire process is very stressful on your aquarium livestock. And to make matters worse, sometimes the moving process can stir up some nasty stuff in the aquarium that could kill any animal you try to put into the tank. Because of this, putting [...]
Tip of the Day – 5/7/2013
If you’re getting ready to buy more salt for your water changes, then you need to seriously consider the type of container that it comes in. Salt that comes in buckets is generally going to give you the best, driest salt possible. Any salt that comes in a box or bag will have the same [...]
Tip of the Day – 5/6/2013
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. When moving your aquarium, have backups for everything. We recently moved an aquarium from one location to another, with the entire process grounded at some point due to a sump breaking. Now, you’d never bet that a sump would break, but these things do happen and [...]
Tip of the Day – 5/3/2013
The slowest and most tedious part about performing a water change on your aquarium isn’t the actual process of removing and replacing water, but making the water itself. Since tap water is laced with contaminants, making your own pure water from a reverse osmosis filter is the only way to get clean water into your [...]
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