Tag: DIY
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Easiest DIY Saltwater Fish Food Ever
Have you ever wondered if you could make your own saltwater fish food? Think about it: no need to contemplate which commercial food to pick up from the store. And you retain full control over all the ingredients. If the thought’s ever passed through your mind, this is the post for you. And before you fret…
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The Bristle Worm: Your Ultimate Guide to This Pest
If you have ever seen a bristle worm in your reef tank, you probably agree they can be ugly little creatures. I’m pretty sure we’re genetically programmed to get creeped out by millipede-like invertebrates. And once you start looking, you’ll find TONS of energy and discussion about this lowly polychaete in reef aquarium circles. The…
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How to Drill a Glass Aquarium
With a little confidence, some patience, and a variable speed drill, you can put a hole in your tank. (A hole you WANT in your tank – not the accidental kind) I’m serious. Sure, you could buy a pre-drilled tank from your local fish store or pay someone else to do the job for you.…
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Plumbing Your DIY Aquarium Rack in Your Fish Room
Once you decide to connect multiple tanks together – either for breeding or to have a sump – you need an aquarium rack. And once you have the rack? It’s time to worry about plumbing. The drains and lines allow you to streamline water flow throughout the tanks and the entire system. Now, you’ve made…
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DIY Aquarium Rack for Fish Room: Design continued
DIY Aquarium Rack for Fish Room: Design Continued This is a partial view of what the DIY Aquarium rack looks like when complete. To protect the wood from water damage, I used a deck stain/paint. I’m happy with the wood protection but do wonder a bit about whether or not it is leaching chemicals. I have…
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DIY Aquarium Rack for Fish Room: Design Continued
DIY Aquarium Rack for Fish Room: Design (continued) This blog post is a continuation of the last entry where I showed you how to build the horizontal shelf for a DIY Aquarium Rack for your fish room. Please note that the horizontal shelf as described in the last post is represented now from the side view in the…
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DIY Aquarium Rack for Fish Room: The design
Over the next few blog entries, I will walk through the steps for a DIY (Do-IT-Yourself) aquarium rack for a fish room. This will allow you to use multiple tanks all linked together to a central filtration and circulation system. It’s a pretty big rack, so you will need some space or even your own…
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DIY Larvae Snagger
The role of a DIY larvae snagger Here is a question I have heard a few times: Help! I have clownfish laying eggs in my tank. How do I raise the young? Have you ever had this happen to you? The best and easiest thing you can do is take the rock that they laid…
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Rotifer Culturing at Home: Continous Cultures
Rotifer Culturing at Home: Continuous Culture Set-Up and Protocol Growing rotifers as a continuous culture is easy to do, but requires a small amount of work, almost every day. Unlike batch culturing, where the goal is to culture the most rotifers possible in sequential batches, the goal of continuous rotifer culturing is to create a…
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How to Culture Rotifers: Batch Culturing Protocol
Culturing rotifers at home is fairly easy to do. Rotifers are a great food source for newly hatched fish larvae and for some filter-feeding invertebrates. Ironically, the rotifer organism itself provides very little nutritional value to the animals that eat them. It is the content of their guts (the food they eat) that provides nutrition. As…