Monthly Archives: November 2014

By Than Thein Carbon dosing is a relatively new phenomenon in the reef aquarium hobby. The first I heard about it was around two years ago, and I hadn’t given it a whole lot of thought until recently. The goal of carbon dosing is to Read more here…

By Brandon Klaus What better way is there to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday than to trample four small children, shove a few little old ladies, and knock over a guy with a cane just to you get that no-name tablet at a steep discount? If Read more here…

By Leonard Ho Click through to see the images. Set the video to HD, expand to full screen, and enjoy. If your relatives can still manage to create holiday drama with this streaming in the background, you’re on your own. P.S. We may blog tomorrow. Read more here…

By Brandon Klaus Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving to you all. In lieu of the holiday, we decided to cook up a special tip of the day with fish foods in mind. On a day like today, where eating nonstop is not only a tradition Read more here…

By admin When I came across a full-tank shot of this large aquarium, I knew I had to learn more about the system and its owner. Great profiles, large coral colonies, showcase-size specimens, and a clean bare-bottom layout all collaborate to catch the eye of Read more here…

By Leonard Ho Click through to see the images. As part of a Mountain Lake (San Francisco) restoration project, earlier this month, the Presidio Trust administered 47 gallons of rotenone* into the water in order to kill all the fish because the lake had become Read more here…

By Brandon Klaus Here is a nifty portable frag rack that should make trips to the local frag swaps a whole lot more convenient. Building An Obsession, an acrylic fabricator that has lots of sweet goodies, showed this off a little while back, and it Read more here…

By Brandon Klaus I’m convinced. Peroxide dosing is perfectly safe to dose to a reef aquarium and it is really effective at eliminating hair algae. I was a bit skeptical to do it at first, but after getting tired of seeing hair algae covering my Read more here…

By Leonard Ho Click through to see the images. At the start of 2014, Pacific Sun introduced a powerful and surprisingly affordable five-channel computerized dosing system, the Kore 5th Doser (read more about the Kore 5th Doser here). At the end of this year, Pacific Read more here…

By Jeff Kurtz Regular Saltwater Smarts readers might wonder why we often post profiles of fish or invertebrates that are very difficult if not impossible to keep in home aquariums. After all, if we want to discourage you from buying these animals, why on earth Read more here…