General Saltwater Aquarium
Most beautiful and elegant aquascape reef tanks layouts for living areas with Orphek Atlantik iCon Reef LED Lighting
Orphek Atlantik iCon over reef aquascaping tank under constrations
Today’s post is about integration of reef aquariums as elegant, creative, serene and even striking decorative...
Snake Eels: The Safe Moray Alternative?
by @Slocke
Myrichthys Colubrinus - The Banded Snake Eel
Snake eels are a more rarely seen but available eel in the aquarium hobby but are they a viable option for someone looking for a more unusual eel?
Quick Guide
Care Level: Moderate
Aggression...
REEFERS’ RULES
According to @ReefGeezer
I found this information on an old CD that I was getting ready to discard. Yep… I still have one computer with a CD- ROM! The file creation date was in May of 2004. I thought the information might be useful and decided to dust it off and share it. I did...
Orphek and Public Aquariums, a long lasting love affair – Part I (Middle East)
Since the very beginning of Orphek, Public Aquariums have been a passion of its founders
Aquarium illuminated by Orphek at Oman Muscat Mall Aquarium Photo credit: Cardenas Mary Joyce
In today’s post we will address...
Ricordea yuma - A Joy to Own
Albert Thiel
(reprint from R2R thread - January 14, 2013)
Often referred to as "Yumas", these are not true corals and not true anemones either, but somewhere in between a mushroom and an anemone. Hence the many common names given to them that may include several...
Sourcing Marine Fishes and Invertebrates
Experienced aquarists are aware that fishes from different regions of the world can have different levels of sustainability when acquired for their aquariums. The reasons for these differences may include collection technique (the use of cyanide for...
THE PROBLEM
As is well known, dinoflagellate pests in the reef aquarium are perhaps the worst that we will face during the life of our system. These pests are quite difficult to eradicate because dinoflagellates have a great capacity for reproduction, propagation and survival. In addition...
Advanced Topic
Rock, Flower, Papers: A review of journal articles about Rock Flower Anemones (Phymanthus crucifer)
Rock, Flower, Papers: A review of journal articles about Rock Flower Anemones
(Phymanthus crucifer)
written by @Peace River
(cover photo by OrlandoReefer)
Rock Flower Anemones (RFAs) are common anemones that are kept in marine and reef aquariums, and they are widely available throughout the...
understanding nutrient limitations
1. Introduction
2. Brief description on the difference between Availability and residual nutrients.
3.Identify nutrient limitations under different filtration methods.
3.1. Heterotrophic bacteria as dominant species effect on nutrients and residual.
3.2...
Salinity Measurements for Marine Aquariums
@Jay Hemdal
Introduction
The fundamental difference between freshwater and marine aquariums is of course, their respective salt content. The salt level is usually reported as either salinity (parts per thousand of salt in water) or specific gravity...
Guide to Common Hitchhikers in Reef Tanks
by @A Young reefer
The purpose of this thread is to hopefully assist hobbyists in obtaining the correct id and method of treatment to common hitchhikers. Both; the good ones and the bad ones.
1) Anemones
Some times called the flowers of the sea, many...
Creating Mature Food Webs and Nutrient Processing Pathways
by @ReefGeezer
HI everyone. My name is John. I’m ReefGeezer on R2R. Here’s a picture of my 90 Gallon “Someday to be Reef” tank at about one year old. I had done some scrubbing of algae and Cyanobacteria for the picture, so it shows a...
Personal Experience
New Country "OMAN" opens up for the first time and begins USA Imports...THE TRUTH!
In an industry that is always looking over it's shoulder, its refreshing news when we hear about new locations opening up and beginning to supply livestock to an evolving trade. Even more exciting when it's a country that has never before exported to the ornamental aquarium trade and we start...
Nuisance Algae Identification and Removal Guide
by John Maloney (2009)
Okay, so unless you have a nuisance macro algae that is complex and not normal, we hopefully got you covered. We need photos to continue the thread, send them in.
The Common Pest Algae. (Diatoms, Hair, Film, and Cyano)...
As the title suggests, this is intended as a short guide on what to do when you suspect dinoflagellates are trying to overtake your system. It is an attempt to boil down the protocols discussed across 11,000 posts in this "Are you Tired" thread along with thousands of other dino threads. I did...
A reef tank is a complete ecosystem operating with clockwork precision in a space of extraordinarily small dimensions compared to nature. As a result, the water chemistry fluctuates at a dizzying rate, implying a strategy to compensate for these changes in a sustainable manner. The export and...
Corals have beautiful colorations, whether you are after soft corals, LPS corals, or SPS corals, we believe there is a coral out there for everyone!
When choosing corals, you want to ensure they are healthy so they get the best start to their new life inside your reef tank. At R2R, our coral...
During the last few years, the technology available to facilitate the work of hobbyists has experienced an important boom. Technological advances have been transferred from the laboratories of scientific institutions, public aquariums and aquaculture companies. There is a transfer of techniques...
A reef aquarium can be thought of as a system fed by inputs, which are processed to generate biomass, resulting in outputs. The system uses the inputs for its operation, transforming them into growth of organisms and producing waste products that must be reduced, removed or recycled in some way...
The proper light for the reef aquarium is of extraordinary importance, not only for coral growth and health, but for the overall functioning of the food web. A large number of organisms involved in nutrient recycling, feeding corals and invertebrates, depend on light for survival. Photosynthetic...
