Substrate versus Bare Bottom Reef Aquariums

As with many aspects of reefkeeping, there is no perfect way. Even something as seemingly simple as whether to choose substrate or go bare bottom leads to a discussion. As someone who has run both types of systems and is…

Tropical Eden’s new Aragavive live sand

The Tropical Eden line of reef-collected aragonite substrates went “live” with its new Aragavive live aragonite sand. The Aragavive line comes in four flavors, depending on how fine or how large you like your substrate and you have to love…

Getting To The Bottom of Things: Alternative Reef Substrates

We sure spend a lot of time making our aquariums look  great, don’t we? Coral selection, rock placement, and overall layout of the aquascape are all things that seem to occupy a lot of our time when planning or setting…