After being in the reefing side of the hobby for almost forty years I have seen or had just about every pest imaginable in my tanks. While I am especially thinking about our friend Jake and his passing a year…
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Why Pure Source Water is Fundamental to a Successful Reef Tank
There are so many aspects to succeeding with a reef tank but one of the first ones, and one of the most important ones, is good source water. Unless you are buying/using natural seawater (and even if you are you…
Amphipods are the “Bees of the Sea”
We stumbled across this excellent infographic by Marine BioDiversity of Yucatán on Amphipods. We knew they could be found pretty much everywhere, from freshwater to saltwater, under rocks on beaches to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, but we didn’t…
Ask The Expert: Steve Visser from ICP Analysis
We have so much to learn about the inner workings of ICP testing. We asked Reef Therapy Sponsor Steve Visser of ICP-Analysis about his own machine and testing processes. What is the difference between ICP MS and ICP OES machines? …
What kind of Saltwater Tank do you want?
Up until this point just about everything that has been done in preparation of setting up a new tank is pretty much the same. A tank, stand, skimmer, lights, etc are all going to be used regardless of what you…
Could Purple Non-Sulfur Bacteria Change Reefing?
The future of the reef aquarium industry is microbial. Microbes hold many of the nuanced secrets behind the long-term health and reproduction of corals, reef fish, and invertebrates. All of these creatures are a sum of their associated microbiomes and…
AquaDom Investigation Closed: No one Responsible for Giant Aquarium Collapse
Prosecutors in Berlin have closed their investigation into the giant AquaDom cylinder aquarium collapse, concluding that the cause could not be pinpointed and that they had no lead to follow on who might be responsible. According to the Associated Press,…
Watch Reef Therapy Episode #83 on Reef Microbiology, with Salem Clemens
If you want to exercise your reefing brain there is no bigger conversation right now than the role of microbiology in both natural coral reefs and our home aquaria. So we asked Reef Builders contributor Salem Clemens to join Remy…
Is the Hobby Getting Too Expensive? Part II Livestock
As was discussed in Part 1 the cost of getting into the hobby, equipment-wise was surprisingly not as expensive as I had thought. This was the case even when some of the best equipment was being used. Even when inflation…
What to do in a Reef Tank Power Outage
Possibly one of the most daunting things you can encounter is sudden silence from the reef tank when the power goes out. Or perhaps you know the power is going out on a particular day for scheduled maintenance? Whether the…
