ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRAGS and REEF2REEF are bringing you the TOP 3 Giveaway!! We love corals, and we know that you do too! What are your favorite 3 corals of all time? The winner will receive a $200 gift card to Rocky Mountain Frags!
HOW TO ENTER
There are multiple ways for you to enter to win! Be sure to make a post in this thread for each of the entries you've completed.
ENTRY #1: Make a post in this thread listing your top 3 favorite corals of all time!
ENTRY #2: Post a photo of your...
Snails can be a very useful part of a reef tank, consuming algae, detritus and harmful microfauna that can make life difficult for your corals and fish. In a sense they act as a janitorial service for your tank, which is probably why teams of snails and other scavenging organisms are called the Cleanup Crew (CUC). However when janitors and cleaners are hired for a building you usually don’t need to worry about whether they’ll eat each other or the furniture once they’ve run out of lunch...
Check out the article on our website: https://chaosaquaculture.com/whats-makes-a-bounce-mushroom-coral-so-special/
What’s Makes a Bounce Mushroom Coral so Special?
They’ve bounced their way into the hearts of reef aquarium hobbyists and coral lovers all over the world. And who can blame the recipients and seekers of these beautiful additions?
After all, bounce mushroom corals have so much to offer everyone: divers, researchers, enthusiasts and more.
But what’s all the hype about? We’ll...
The William S. Tunze Macro Alage Reactor (MAR) Giveaway!
This month we're doing something special with the Tunze Giveaway. We have a special prize as we have one of the new Tunze Macro Algae Reactors (MAR) 3181 to give away so we needed a special way to get entered. THE WINNER WILL BE ONE OF THE FIRST TO OWN ONE OF THESE REACTORS!
So since we needed something special what better cause than this? This thread was brought to my attention and I think it's something we could all get involved...
Lego, made of ABS, Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. Yes, @Brew12, you can have Lego in your reef tank.
This is a royalty-free image from by MW from Pixabay.
Welcome to Part 2 of Plastic for the Reef Aquarium. In Part 1, we covered some background on plastic, why plastic is of interest to reef aquarists, and we talked about plastic in general terms. Now we'll get a little more specific.
Unfortunately, most of the research that I've read about plastic does not test plastic specifically...
Introduction
At the beginning of January, 2019, I wrote an article about glass. Shortly after that, I was asked to write an article about plastic. This is the result. The article below is organized in a similar way as the glass article.
Plastic is of interest to reef aquarists because we use it. Some people have acrylic tanks; plastic elbows are commonly put inside quarantine or hospital tanks; plastic pipes plumb saltwater systems; and there are lots of other common uses for plastic in...
We have in our midst a reef aquarist who has had aquariums for the past 40 years and saltwater aquariums for 30 years. That's an enormous amount of reef experience by any measure.
He also does things a little differently than some of the others profiled recently. This gentleman in the southern US has taken frugality to a whole new level. He recently set up a new 93-gallon cube reef tank for under $1000. Pretty amazing stuff. And you can read about it in great detail in his build thread.
Of...
When you're starting a reef tank, it can take a long time before your tank starts to look like something you can be proud of. It takes patience and perseverance. We always say, "nothing good happens fast in a reef tank."
Recently I visited a big LFS in Vancouver, BC, that had a nice display reef tank set up at the front. My daughter--who knows nothing about aquariums--asked me, "can someone walk in and say they want a tank that looks just like that?" My answer was, "well, sort of. It's a...
