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Photos are all courtesy of @samparker, ©2019, All Rights Reserved.
We are delighted to announce our March 2019 Reef of the Month belongs to our forum member, samparker, from Australia. samparker has a beautiful reef which you will see below. Sam has six tanks plumbed together in...
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Current Extreme Weather is a Topic that is Hotly Debated
What is not debated is that our lifestyles are dependent on the electricity that powers our lives and is essential to our vulnerable loved ones and the animals we keep...
This article is sponsored by @Triquatics
The periodic table of elements.
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The most important part of your tank is the water. Keeping a reef tank is like keeping part of the ocean in your home, and we all know that the ocean is a...
Filtering your tank by using “algae to fight algae” has been gaining in popularity in the last few years. We are biased about this, because we invented the waterfall and upflow designs that everyone uses now, but nevertheless we wanted to make this in-depth series about everything, including...
Welcome to the R2R Cartoon Caption Contest for March 2019.
Put your thinking caps on, sharpen your pencils, and give us a caption for the cartoon below.
This cartoon is by Laura Yang for Reef2Reef. ©2019, All Rights Reserved.
HOW TO ENTER
This contest will be conducted inside our forum...
The article below is a brief introduction to soft corals for beginner aquarists. This is, by no means, an exhaustive treatment of soft coral husbandry.
Example of soft coral: mushroom coral.
Photo is from the Reef2Reef archives, courtesy of @John3 ©2019, All Rights Reserved.
Soft corals...
A photo for inspiration: a shot of Michael J. Cuttone's Reef2Reef January 2019 Reef of the Month.
This photo is from the Reef2Reef archives, courtesy of Michael J. Cuttone, ©2019, All Rights Reserved.
Some time ago, I asked forum members about their feeding routines. I was interested to see...
10,000L, 5-year-old, display tank at the Maritime Museum & Aquarium. A build thread for this tank is linked in my profile & at the bottom of this article.
Photo is courtesy of @Sallstrom, ©2019, All Rights Reserved.
Running a reef tank might be a walk in the park for some, but for others it’s...
Attention, Reef2Reefers! @Triquatics is teaming up with R2R to bring you a brand new giveaway! One lucky reefer is going to win a ClariSea SK-5000!!
Triquatics was founded by three reefers that believed that there could be a superior digital shopping experience worldwide! They strive to offer a...
This article is sponsored by @Triquatics
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The Nitrogen Cycle, as it applies to the greater natural world, is a series of chemical reactions that support all life on earth. Through these reactions, non-reactive nitrogen gas (N) and...
NOOPSYCHE is LIGHTING UP YOUR REEF AGAIN!!
And this time there are THREE WINNERS!!
I don't know if you've been following @noopsyche and their brand new K7 ProII reef light, but this one is making waves already in the reef community! You can check out @Dana Riddle's testing of the Noopsyche K7...
Deep by James Nestor
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition (June 24, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0547985525
ISBN-13: 978-0547985527
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
An Amazon Best Book of the Month
Amazon Best Science Book of 2014...
Fellow Reefers.
Now I have already written a guide on cupramine and how to use it to rid ich and for a lot of reasons if someone does not want to try copper then Hypo is another solution or Tank Transfer. These 3 methods are proven over time.
A new study/method is being practiced with success...
A freshwater rehabilitation performed by reddit user /u/ErrantWhimsy
This is his photo of Phoenix, one of six bettas ErrantWhimsy has rehabilitated.
Thank you for letting us use this photo. ©2019, All Rights Reserved.
A freshwater rehabilitation performed by reddit user /u/ErrantWhimsy
This is...
The blobfish, Psychrolutes marcidus, belongs to the same genus as the more familiar blob sculpin Psychrolutes phrictus in the family Psychrolutidae.
Blobfish are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean. They get their name because they...
If you want to build a DIY LED for your tank, there are plenty of resources on the internet to get you started on the usual setup of a driver, and a bucket full of little 3-watt stars to make your lovely strip-style light. But maybe the strip lights aren't what you want? Maybe you want...
Surge suppression has come a long way over the years. Some of us remember when purchasing our first computer we also had to purchase an APC power back-up that had surge protection, power filtering and power back-up as a much-needed secondary function. Today we plug our computers into surge...
After this, there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill - the story ends, you keep believing that nitrate and phosphate are the cause of your algae problems.
You take the red pill - I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
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It's the WATCH 2 WIN GIVEAWAY
brought to you by SalwaterAquarium.com and R2R!!
Here's another great giveaway brought to you by @SaltwaterAq and R2R!! One lucky winner is going to walk away with a brand new Aqueon 20 Gallon Beginner Saltwater Aquarium Kit! All of you will walk away with more...
15 Steps to Starting a Saltwater Aquarium: The Lasse Method
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Photos are all courtesy of Lasse Forsberg. ©2019, All Rights Reserved.
INTRODUCTION
There are many methods to start a saltwater aquarium--each major aquarium product manufacturer has its own. Common to most, however...
