I recently ran across a forum thread in which the person who started the forum was documenting his construction of a 600 gallon saltwater aquarium. My reaction is pretty much: WOW. Click here to check it out. The documentation is quite impressive, starting with building the tank all the way to loading it up with […]
Treat your aquarium fish as you would like to be treated
There is a common saying that goes something like this: “Treat others as you would like others to treat you”. Let’s apply that to your aquarium fish. If you were an aquarium fish, how would you want your owner to treat you? I can think of all kinds of ways that I would like to […]
Just Ordered a Media Reactor for Phosphate Sponge
I finally got tired of only being able to put small amounts of phosphate sponge into my canister filter. Not only is the filter not able to hold as much phosphate sponge as I want to have in there, it is also a pain to disconnect and change on a frequent basis. So… I decided […]
Bristle Worm Hunt
The last time I posted about Bristle Worms on this site, I was convinced that I would be catching hundreds of them [slight exaggeration]. The last times I set the trap, I set it up on the live rocks. The bristle worm trap proved ineffective on the live rocks. I was able to prop the […]
19 Bristle Worms and Counting
I’ve been trapping Bristle Worms for 3 nights in a row now. Each night I put the trap into a different sector of the fish tank. Whenever I first drop the trap into the tank for the night the Nassarius Snails swarm the trap. But they can’t get in. After about an hour the Snails […]
Battling Bristle Worms
I’ve recently found Bristle Worms in my 75 gallon aquarium. This is not good. I assume an aquarium is likely to have bristle worms at some point, but it’s also not something I want to see in mine. I have no need for them that I know of. They must be destroyed. Setting a Bristle […]
Possibly removing live rock from the tank
I’ve been battling some red algae issue in my 75 gallon salt water tank recently. I’m thinking of removing a large portion of the live rock from my tank. The main reasoning for doing this is that I figure the live rock is the one part of the tank that I have a hard time […]
Earth Day for Aquariums
Here’s an example of how to celebrate Earth Day while being an aquarium owner. On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, […]
The snails are swarming the Halloween Hermit Crab
I’ve just looked into my dark tank (the lights are off) and there are three snails swarming on the Halloween Hermit Crab’s shell. I just noticed that the Halloween Hermit Crab had gone into hiding earlier. I am under the impression that this hermit crab is molting at the moment. I figure if the hermit […]
The seas are pink with Coral spawn
As crazy as this sounds, aren’t you glad you are not combating this within your aquarium right now? The annual mass spawning of corals on the Palau archipelago in the western Pacific has occurred right on cue. With Sunday night’s full moon, coral polyps let forth a huge swathe of sperm and egg, to seed […]
