Ideas and misc
Sometimes you just sit and go “Wow, I’m stupid!”
Yesterday I decided to try to catch 4 Pomacentrus simils from my reef aquarium. Had to rearrange half of the tank afterwards. Nuff said. »
Grumpy has been selected as second prize winner of the Coral-shop contest!
I guess I’ll be testing coral-shop system for while I receive total of 20 liters (!!!) additives from their Marine Line products. The contest was arranged by coralscience.org, a excellent site for science based information that is also usable for aquarists who might not enjoy reading scientific papers. The list of contributors is very impressive; if you... »
I hate Papers
I use a program called Papers to keep my library of scientific papers organized. The problem is that even though it’s a wonderful application in many ways it is also much too buggy! It completely messed up my library for the third time last week and I have ever since been restoring it by... »
And the 2009 Nobel prize in Captive Coral Reefs goes to…
Anyone who can come up with an easy and fast product to glue larger corals underwater. Or smaller for that matter! A major importer who can drag their feet from the 80s to this century. We have had pretty much the same fish and invertebrates available for more than 20 years now, maybe it’s... »
New ideas for reef aquarium filtration
Recently I have been experimenting with some new ways to filter reef aquarium water. Here are some notes about the current situation. I will provide more thorough documentation at later time. CaCO3 Enhanced mechanical filtration Due to heavy feeding, DSB and good amount of live rock the detritus/plankton production in my tank is high.... »
Remember SeaScope?
I don’t know about you but I had forgotten all about the free flyer called SeaScope by a company called Aquarium Systems. By the way, that name doesn’t seem to be used anymore. Now they are called Instant Ocean after their most popular (by far) product, Instant Ocean salt mix (IO). It’s fun to... »
It is a sad, sad hobby
One thing that has always bothered me is the negativity among the reef aquarium hobbyists. Or, to be more precise, among some of the more visible and insistent experts, old timers and their fanboys. Hobbyists are often blamed for bad husbandry practices and lack of knowledge for the animals they keep. This habit is... »
Magnesium and Potassium, we did just fine before, thank you!
If there is something about reef keeping that hasn’t changed over the few decades it has been practiced, it’s the passion to try out new things and the tendency to come up with new theories or observations that explain most if not all problems reef aquarists are having at any given time. While sometimes... »
Keep it Fresh
For many experienced aquarists there comes a time when the interest towards reef keeping starts to decline. Many just reduce the amount of time they use to communicate about the hobby (clubs, forums, blogs etc) and others start to reduce the daily interactions with their reef aquarium. There are many reasons for this but some I’ve observed... »