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Garlic Prophylaxis: an effective way to mix garlic and food to reduce fish parasites

For many years, garlic has been used to treat a number of diseases in humans ranging from bacterial infections to intestinal parasites.Â While the evidence for its effectiveness in man is largely…

Dimmable Metal Halide Galaxy Ballasts headed your way

These Galaxy Metal Halide ballasts are said to be dimmable. But, not dimmable in the way we would expect, such as the Elos SunColor. We somehow missed reporting these at MACNA, but these new ballasts will allow you to have…

Robotic fish to swim, monitor the open seas

Robotic fish are not the latest Hollywood horror flick but they are looking to make a â€œsplashâ€ and be released in the wild to monitor and transmitÂ conditions from bodies of water to researchers ashore. In tandem, zoologists and engineers…

Sicce USA: Italian born water pumps getting green card for American market

Sicce USA is the new US based distribution arm of Sicce, the Italian manufacturer of water pumps and other water moving devices. You may have become more and more familiar with the Sicce brand with the PSK line of pumps…

Grassy LeDio LED spotlight in 7, 13 and now 21 watt configurations

Grassy LeDio LED spotlights may be made in Japan but that doesn’t stop us from being able to use the Edison incandescent base in our own sockets. In fact, our Japanese contributor Taka Kamata is expecting to receive these lamps…

Brighter colors of male reef fish are now closer to being understood by new research

It’s no secret that male reef fish usually have much brighter colors and in some cases gaudy coloration compared to their female counterparts. This feature of sexual dichromatism is particularly pronounced in wrasses, anthias and to lesser degree in the…

Thoughts on Reef Aquarium Husbandry: “Good things done in small measures, with frequency.”

Recently, I gave a talk at a hobby club meeting in Vermont, and the topic was Nutrient Control and Export”. Â I’ve given this talk at some other clubs aound the nation before, and I’m frequently surprised by how much hobbyists…

BioPellets coming to North America from Aquarium Specialty

More good news on the NP-reducing BioPellets we brought you earlier. Reef Builders’ sponsor Aquarium Specialty is bringing the BioPellets to North America in mid-November and they are taking pre-orders today. Aquarium Specialty expects the shipment to arrive the second…

Silica Dosing: reef blasphemy or another form of nutrient export?

It has been long held that silica in reef tanks is bad, very, very bad. We avoid beach and play sand like itâ€™s poison because it is believed that silica will cause an undesirable diatom bloom: brown glass, brown gook on rock and substrates, and unhappy reefkeepers. But what if we could control this system and use it to our advantageâ€¦say, to increase nutrient export? Letâ€™s take a look at some old data, some new data, and a controversial hypothesis: that dosing silica may increase nutrient export efficiency.