Natural Water Quality Management for Non-Photosynthetic Reef Aquaria There was once a time when zooxanthellate corals (especially SPS corals) were considered impossible to keep in captivity. Then Read More about Natural Water Quality Management for Non-Photosynthetic Reef Aquaria
An Overview of the Firefishes Marine aquarists are blessed with a gigantic selection of beautiful fish species to keep. Among these, only some are peaceful, Read More about An Overview of the Firefishes
What Do I Need for a Saltwater Fish Tank? Whether scouting for your first aquarium, or “graduating” from a freshwater aquarium, there is something about a saltwater aquarium Read More about What Do I Need for a Saltwater Fish Tank?
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 Read More about Why Larval Pods are Better for Seeding (Even If You Can’t See Them)
Keeping a Coldwater Marine Aquarium Marine aquarists have always had access to temperate species. In fact, in the days before improved packaging/shipping procedures Read More about Keeping a Coldwater Marine Aquarium
When to Choose Poseidon’s Feast Back in “the day,” to acquire a seed culture of copepods, aquarists would typically have to resort to scooping a couple cups of gravel Read More about When to Choose Poseidon’s Feast
Corals in a Box of Water: Creating a Natural Reef Tank We’ve come a long, long way in advancing natural marine aquarium keeping. Those of us who started out in the 80’s with barren Read More about Corals in a Box of Water: Creating a Natural Reef Tank
Gutloading Live Microcrustaceans In the sense that very, very few animals specialize to eat only one thing, all animals are omnivores, and prefer live foods. For Read More about Gutloading Live Microcrustaceans
Why EcoPods are the Best Live Copepod Product Ever Earth is a planet of pods. Wherever there is water, there are amphipods, isopods, branchiopods, and so on. Pods are an integral part of Read More about Why EcoPods are the Best Live Copepod Product Ever
A Look at the Banded Pipefish So many marine aquarium fishes can be exciting to watch; some are big and belligerent, some are beefy and bullish, some are lightning Read More about A Look at the Banded Pipefish
The Whole Package: Integrating AlgaeBarn’s Kits & Combos AlgaeBarn is hardly the only aquarium hobby-centered business to produce phytoplankton and macroalgae. But we like to think that we’re Read More about The Whole Package: Integrating AlgaeBarn’s Kits & Combos
Pod vs Sock: Do Mechanical Filters Kill Copepods? Considering that aquarium keeping is a mere nerdy pastime, it can be surprising that there are so many contentious issues amongst Read More about Pod vs Sock: Do Mechanical Filters Kill 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 Read More about 4 Tips for Seeding Live Copepods
Phytoplankton Species and their individual Strengths When purchasing live foods for your tank, many people simply take the shop employee’s advice when handed a jar of unidentified copepods Read More about Phytoplankton Species and their individual Strengths
How to Acclimate Your Pods Particularly for animals that live in water, acclimating from one environment to another--even if quite similar physically and Read More about How to Acclimate Your Pods
Oithona: A Keystone Aquarium Copepod Species In terms of both numbers and biomass, the copepods (Subclass Copepoda) dominate the zooplankton oceanwide. These minute crustaceans are Read More about Oithona: A Keystone Aquarium Copepod Species
Copepoda: The Ocean’s Cornucopia In 1905, an engineering mishap caused the Colorado River to flood a shallow basin over the San Andreas Fault in California. With Read More about Copepoda: The Ocean’s Cornucopia
Gorgonians in the Marine Aquarium It should go without saying that the hermatypic, stony, reef-building corals will dominate most reef aquaria. Thankfully, so long as Read More about Gorgonians in the Marine Aquarium
Eliminating Detritus in the Refugium Ever feel like no matter how much time you spend cleaning your tank, it can never really ever get clean? Detritus build-ups can be Read More about Eliminating Detritus in the Refugium
Copepods Imagine for a second how food energy from grass, a primary producer, is transferred to a bluebird. The bluebirds don’t eat grass. Read More about Copepods