Articles
In this section, find articles to eradicate pests, maintain water quality, coral health, and anything to help with your reef keeping husbandry. This is new to my blog and I am new to reef keeping so as my knowledge and experience grows, so will this section.
The idea behind this section and reason I am spending time with it is it is more of a diary of the different systems, problems, or experiments I perform on my tank from a newbie perspective. If I help someone along the way, it was worth the time.
Follow along and realize, your results may vary as each tank is a unique system and can be very different from the next even if on the surface they appear the same.
Published Articles
- Chemistry — Nutrients
- Chaeto for Nutrient Exporting
- Food: Levels of Nitrates and Phosphates in Each
- War! The Algae Must Die!!
- Major Changes Trying to Fight Nitrates
- N/P Reducing Bio Pellets to Reduce Nutrients
- Vodka Dosing: My Experience to Decrease Nitrates and Phosphates
- ZEOvit System: Yet Another Way to Export Nutrients
- Chemistry — General
- Equipment
- Circulation Pump — EcoTech Marine MP-10 Vortech Review
- Closed Loop Pump Modification — Maxi Jet 900 (230 gph)
- Lighting — Lumen Max Elite HQI 250W Fixture with Galaxy Electronic Ballast and Phoenix DE 14000K+ MH Bulb Upgrade
- Skimmer — Installed Euro-Reef Nano Skimmer for Solana 34G – NS2.5-3
- Skimmer — Installed Sapphire Aquatics Solana / Cardiff Skimmer
- Maintenance — DIY Evacuation Tool (Think Dentist Suction Tool)
- Lighting
- Pests
Future Articles / Topics
- Coral Dipping: If You Are Not Doing This, Learn From My Mistakes
- Dosing: What Have I Tried and Results
- Equipment: Controller — ReefKeeper Elite Review
- GAC: Why Do I Need This
- GFO: A Necessity for a Reef Tank
- Husbandry: Newbie Mistakes and What I Would Do Different From the Start
- Nitrates: Let the Battle Begin
- Salt Water: Water Changes
- Test Kits: Why Do I Want to Test and What Do I Want to Use