From Dave at ADU Aquascaping: Check the video description for important links pertaining to this fixture. Great mid-range fixture, and price isn’t bad for the technology being used. Many hobbyists prefer the color rendering of the Halo over the Kessil. Watch the Review Video > HERE More from Dave at ADU Aquascaping: Aquascaping is the ultimate art form. Planted aquariums...
Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura were recently awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the blue light-emitting diode (LED). The blue LED combined with the already exciting red and green LEDs gave us the much more usable white light. This miraculous breakthrough has thankfully benefited us in the aquarium lighting world in many ways. No...
A refugium is a separate aquarium that shares the same water supply as your display tank. It provides a safe place (or refuge) to cultivate beneficial algae and animals in an area where they are safe from predators. Most reefers primarily use their refugiums to biologically control levels of nutrients such as Nitrates, Phosphates and CO2 thus controlling algae blooms...
A reef aquarium with colorful corals and fabulous fish can be one of the most stunning sights to behold. Having your own Great Barrier Reef is enticing; however, it’s important to know that reef aquariums require drastically more resources than freshwater aquariums. If the allure of an adorable Clown Fish poking his head out of a waving Anemone proves too...
For decades we have been doing everything we could to keep chlorine out of our tanks. Millions of dollars and countless hours have been spent in eradicating this scourge on our aquariums. Just when we perfect chlorine removal techniques our municipal water supplies introduce a different, more virulent adversary…CHLORAMINE! What are Chloramines? There are several types of chloramine. The one...
