March? … Winters Over? O.o

March? … Winters Over? O.o

Hard to beleive it is March already but here we are. We recieved an order this morning that contained some excellent clean up crew. If you are looking for larger reef safe Hermit Crabs we got in some common Reef Hermit, some Electric Blue Hermits and Halloween Hermits and all of them a decent size. [...]

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Monthly Update :D

Monthly Update :D

As the post topic suggests the first bit of news is there will no longer be weekly updates … well ok, so there have been no weekly updates for a quite a few weeks. We are going to do monthlies instead and I will make other posts as time allows. Many of you likely know [...]

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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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