Tag: equipment
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A hot week and a hard lesson in coral heat stress
[pullquote cite=”Dr. Foster & Smith Website” type=”left”]A sudden temperature change can place undue stress on your aquatic life…[/pullquote] That is a quote from a Dr. Foster’s article–and right now, it feels like the understatement of the century (hows that for an exaggeration). My story starts a couple of weeks ago, when my tank experienced a relatively…
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Emergency Situation # 3: Aquarium Power Failure
This is the third article in the Emergency Situation series. Click here to see Emergency Situation # 1 or Emergency Situation # 2. The basic premise is that I’m simulating a saltwater aquarium emergency, in order to figure out how I would handle it and if I need to get any equipment to help myself…
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Aquarium cooling fan: Aquacool
Aquarium cooling fan: Aquacool This summer, I installed an aquarium cooling fan for my display tank. When the metal halide lamp warms up, my tank and the area around it really warms up. The cooling fan in the metal halide light is noisy and insufficient, so I decided to try the Aquacool fan from ZooMed Laboratories.…
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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 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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Reef Aquarium Lighting
Reef Aquarium Lighting One of the most common questions I hear from new saltwater aquarium hobbyists about reef aquarium lighting is, “How much light do I need? Is there a minimum wattage I should consider to keep coral in a reef tank?” I have heard aquarists offer up the advice that to keep coral, they…
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Equipment Needed to Culture Saltwater Rotifers
The first step to culturing saltwater rotifers at home is to obtain a starter culture. If you can’t find a hobbyist (or breeder) growing rotifers locally, you can find them online—just type ‘rotifer cultures’ or ‘live rotifers’ into the GOOGLE search bar on the bottom left margin of this page, and you’ll find a number of…
