Archive for February, 2010
New Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Reef Disorder
Are you obsessive about your reef tank? So is one of my friends, Derek Rodner. Check out his blog, http://www.reefdisorder.com/. Derek is a web-wizard and has one of the best looking blogs I have seen. He is an accomplished aquarist, has successfully spawned and reared clownfish and is the webmaster for the Delaware Valley Reef [...]
Reef Aquarium Clubs
One of the best ways to increase your reef aquarium knowledge is to join a local saltwater aquarium or reef aquarium club. Most clubs exchange information in three popular ways. 1) Online forums: Most saltwater aquarium clubs and reef aquarium clubs have internet forums where members interact with each other. Questions are posted, experiences are shared, [...]
Small Polyp Stony Corals (SPS)
Small Polyp Stony Corals Small polyp stony corals (SPS) are what many people think of as the conventional reef-building corals. As a group, they are some of the most beautiful and some of the most difficult to keep, often requiring high flow rates, intense lighting and optimal, stable water chemistry. Probably the most popular family [...]
Large Polyp Stony Corals
Large Polyp Stony Corals Coral husbandry is best studied on an individual species basis—because there are exceptions to every rule and generalizations (like the one I’m about to make) often oversimplify the information. Putting my desire for precision and my inner-scientist aside, however, the value of generalizations is that they provide a jumping-off point—a lens [...]
