Hi everyone, I have recently just discovered small white almost mites looking thing crawliling all over my coral, don’t look too much like copepods not from what I have seen. They are all over my my coral and rocks so could be some kind of pod but not too sure if they’re flatworms...
Like many people here, I've been keeping marine tanks for many years. Talking to a friend/owner of a LFS, we reminisced about just how different some aspects of this hobby used to be (10-15 years ago)… What are some of the big changes you've seen around the hobby over the course of many years...
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In lieu of being at home for the past however long it has been, I decided to make a blog about reefing. I wanted to do my part in the reefing community and create a simple site where people can go to get their daily fills of everything reefing. I will be posting my favorite...
We all have the same love for reefing but what’s your favorite part of it. I’m curious as to why everyone’s in the hobby or what got them into reefing? Is it the corals or the fish? Do you like buying a frag and watching it grow? Maybe it’s the whole tiny ecosystem you control and you can see...
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I've been reefing for only 3 months now, so still learning a ton, and I'll tell ya, I can't wait until I can sit down and actually enjoy my tank instead of obsessing over learning and trying to figure every single detail when things change. That's a side note though. :p
So I've...
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I am fairly new to reefing and have a 12.5 gallon Fluval Evo Tank stocked with mostly softies and LPS plus 2 Montis and a BTA! I just upgraded from the stock light to an AI prime and am very curious as to how I should set up my light settings! I was advised to run 35% for blues and...
My story begins approx. 15 years ago with me cruising down the fish isle at Petco and stumbled upon an Australian Harlequin Tusk-fish. With not knowing anything about the hobby, I still purchased him along with a 20 gallon fish tank, heater, and filter. After conducting more research on the...
I started the Facebook group - Reefing Raffle Equipment Coral and More- in order to raise funds for a new frag swap in my local area (Hagerstown /Boonsboro /Frederick Maryland area). Here, we will host raffles including equipment and livestock-related to reefing.
This is the groups' web...
In lifelong years of freshwater and my recent conversion to reef keeping, Ive thoroughly enjoyed them all.
My fear is that like other things, the true basics of any fishkeeping, especially saltwater, is, or will be lost forever, and replaced with complicated explanations to beginners of the...
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I am working on my Master’s in Service Design and currently doing research about customer behavior for a Finnish entrepreneur who is in the reefing retail and service business. Our team's aim is to better understand the hobbyist and the reasons why you have started reefing...
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Here's the Reefbuilders article on this special coral...
The Difference Between a Passion and a Hobby
What you’ll find is that a Passion is something you come back to. A Hobby is more of a passive interest. You try something out, maybe you enjoy doing it on the side or every once in awhile, but it’s not burning inside of you. You really could take it...
so currently have a 130 gallon water box an 30 gallon water box with my husband. in the 30 we keep our frags and pair of clowns, and in the 130 we have a purple tang, 2 davinci clowns, a melanarus wrasse (pardon my spelling), a coral beauty angel, and a flame angel. would like to get a goby and...
alright so does anyone find themselves gazing at their tank for hours on end? Like sometimes I’ll just walk by it and see something and then bam it pulls me in and next thing I know, 3 hours have flown by!!! My gf is trying to tell me this is not normal and that I’m obsessed!! Come in fellow...
So I'm one week into my first ever build.
Equipment
Tank- aqueon 29 gallon
Filter- Aquaclear 110 HOB, intank media basket
Skimmer- Tunze 9001 in HOB filter.
PowerHead- 2 koralia 425 nano, 1 aqueon 750
Heater- Hydor 100w in HOB filter
Lighting- soon to be ecotech 72DX
Media used- floss...
You have a lot of options now-a-days when it comes to plumbing an aquarium and that can make the task a bit overwhelming. There are quite a few different solvents, glues, primers, fittings, piping, and sealants all with their own particular purpose. To complicate that a little more each one has...