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How hard is it to keep a refugium?

How Macroalgae Benefits Coral

Many hobbyists are constantly looking for ways to increase the health and vitality of their corals. There are many obvious ways to achieve better

Bulletproof Refugiums: Macroalgae

Welcome to the next part of our series on how to build a bulletproof refugium. At AlgaeBarn, a lot of our customers have asked what the secret is to a

A Closer Look at Clean Sea Lettuce

AlgaeBarn is committed to doing our part to help keep the planet clean and green. It's why we're talking about the ways we can keep a clean reef tank

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The Ultimate Housekeepers

A Closer Look at EcoPods

Recently, our friends over at Bulk Reef Supply filmed a product review on one of our bestsellers, EcoPods. If you haven’t watched the video yet, you can

Ocean Pollinators

We have some very exciting news to share about ocean pollinators! Marine researchers in France have just released exciting news that could change the way

What Kind of Copepods do Mandarins Eat?

The Mandarin Goby is a very captivating fish. This fish is mostly prized because of its appearance. Its vibrant colors and patterns are adored by all.

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How EcoPods Helps Keep a Reef Tank Healthy

How EcoPods Builds the Reef Tank's Ecosystem In this post, we will discuss the major advantages that EcoPods can bring to your reef tank system. In

A Closer Look at EcoPods

Recently, our friends over at Bulk Reef Supply filmed a product review on one of our bestsellers, EcoPods. If you haven’t watched the video yet, you can

Ocean Pollinators

We have some very exciting news to share about ocean pollinators! Marine researchers in France have just released exciting news that could change the way

Phytoplankton See All

The Ultimate Housekeepers

A Closer Look at OceanMagik

Keeping The Reef Tank Happy and Healthy with OceanMagik In this post, we are going to revisit some of our favorite ways that OceanMagik Live Phytoplankton

What Kind of Copepods do Mandarins Eat?

The Mandarin Goby is a very captivating fish. This fish is mostly prized because of its appearance. Its vibrant colors and patterns are adored by all.

Galaxy Pods in the Ultimate Galaxy Pack

The Ultimate Galaxy Pack is our newest live feeding system designed to provide the most balanced nutritional profile. AlgaeBarn has put together an even

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hair algae can be real trouble for marine aquariums.

How to Control Hair Algae

Algae Happens. Even the types that we don’t want in our aquaria (and actively try to eradicate) can gain a pretty good foothold from time to time. This

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Even White Tube nems have a beautiful glow

Keeping Tube Anemones

Because most marine aquarists these days are reef aquarists--implying that they prefer tanks that feature a mainly rocky reef aquascape--not much attention

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Keeping Zoanthids

Reef aquaria wouldn’t be reef aquaria without corals--plain and simple. But those extra little goodies (sea anemones, corallimorpharians, etc.) undoubtedly

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Aquariums like this are very tuned for Coral Growth

Correcting Nutrient Instability

Oh, the paradox of algae. They have ruined many tanks--even caused some frustrated aquarists to leave the hobby forever. Yet, our tanks (especially reef

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Copepods Quick Guides

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A Marine Copepod for Saltwater Aquarium

A Primer on the Different Characteristics and Uses of the Major Copepod Groups

      Put simply, copepods are everywhere, and there are all kinds of them. We’re talking about somewhere from seven or eight thousand to over 20,000

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Copepods Under Microscope

How to Acclimate Your Pods

Particularly for animals that live in water, acclimating from one environment to another--even if quite similar physically and chemically--can present

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Close Up of Copepods

4 Tips for Seeding Live Copepods

We get it… Copepods aren’t always cheap. Especially if you use a clean, high-quality, high-density, expertly packaged product with as many as four copepod

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Why Larval Pods are Better for Seeding (Even If You Can’t See Them)

Copepods (pods) are essentially required for any reef aquarium. They perform three important ecological tasks: (1) Graze on benthic microalgae, (2)

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Proper Tank Acclimation for new livestock is vital!

How to Acclimate Your Captive Bred Fish

Acclimation to a new aquarium home is a particularly stressful time in the life of any kind of captive fish. Like all aquatic animals, fish are shocked by

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A More In Depth Look At Captive Bred Livestock

Once upon a time, all of our saltwater fish, invertebrates, and corals were wild caught, there was no captive bred livestock anywhere. Hobbyists were still

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Aquacultured Fish

Is There Really a Difference Between Wild-Caught and Aquacultured Marine Aquarium Livestock?

Is There Really a Difference Between Wild-Caught and Aquacultured Marine Aquarium Livestock? These days, when it comes to aquarium livestock (aquaculture

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A captive Bred Court Jester

4 Captive Bred Fish For Beginners

As years go by, more and more fish in this industry have been successfully captive bred, by incredible companies such as BIOTA . This is not only great for

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Inverts 101

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Starfish are a great Aquarium Cleaner

Saltwater Tank Cleaners

Utilizing saltwater creatures is one of the best ways to keep aquariums cleaner. Not only are you adding more interesting organisms, but you are also

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A beautiful peppermint shrimp ready to eat some aiptasia

Peppermint Shrimp: The Aiptasia Destroyers

Peppermint Shrimp (Lysmata boggessi) The Aiptasia Destroyers This time was going to be different, you said. You had just set up a new aquarium system and

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The amazing invertebrate, the sea urchin

Pincushion Urchins (Lytechinus variegatus): The Algae Destroyers

No matter who you are, how skilled you are as an aquarist, how diligent you are at cleaning your tank, how little you feed or how advanced your filter

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Aquarium Cleaning Machines: Cerith Snails in the Reef Tank

An aquarium substrate surface can be a dirty place. Detritus, feces, uneaten fish food, film algae and other unwanted materials might pile up there.

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