Water Quality

How much live sand and rock?

live rock

Like most things in aquariums there is no definitive answer to that question and it is further clouded by the fact that there are many ways to filter your tank. The following are just opinions and there may come a time when you disagree with me but that will mean you are experienced enough that [...]

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Algae blooms, a free option

hair algae tank wwm

Todays blog post is based on an email I got from a client that is fighting an algae bloom.  He is a good guy just trying to balance keeping a salt water aquarium with kids and soaking up some summer. He was in the shop looking for a phosphate reactor (which we have at smoking good prices [...]

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Nitrates

Nitrate Ion

Today's topic, like most in the future I expect, was prompted by the misinformation that I read on the internet over and over and ….. I spent some time studying to be a chemical engineer so I'll start this the way my chem instructor would have. The nitrate ion is a polyatomic with the molecular formula NO3 and a molecular mass [...]

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