I’m sure a lot of you are sick of your cleaner shrimps (Lysmata Amboinensis) stealing food from your corals. This is not such a problem for SPS dominated reef tanks but LPS and Dendrophylliad keepers will know what I mean.
There is a great member of our clean up crew that is always over looked and [...]

This is the 3rd article in the Lighting up nano reef aquariums series. In this part, we’ll be looking at T5 high output lighting (simple referred to as T5’s in this post).

Using T5’s over reef aquaria isn’t as groundbreaking as it was a few years ago, it is now considered a viable alternative to metal halide [...]

This is the 2nd article in the Lighting up nano reef aquariums series. In this part, we’ll be looking at metal halide lighting.
Although already considered ‘old school’ by most aquarists – metal halides still offer our animals most if not all the light they need to thrive in our glass (sometimes acrylic) boxes.
I’ve had the pleasure [...]

One of the key ingredients for any successful reef aquarium whether it be pico, nano, ‘normal sized’ or large, is light. (although that isn’t strictly true if you want to keep Azooxanthellae (non-photosynthetic) corals and sponges, but that is a whole different ball game!)
Why do we need light?
Our light dependant aquarium residents use light to [...]

One of the greatest things about the Internet is the availability of information, no matter how useless it might seem – guess ‘they’ weren’t wrong when it was coined the Information Super Highway, right? Would have helped if they made a map to go with it though…
The Great Migration
For the reefkeeping community the information we all [...]

The idea for a truly long term micro/pico reef (for this article, one gallon or less) came to me as I was graduating college and searching the early internet forums for ideas on small reef aquaria in 2000-2001 to see what was possible and establish the current limitations of small marine aquaria. The smallest I [...]

Ever since the whole Japanese trend of reef aquariums rolled into the west, we’ve been seeing a large amount of hobbyists opting for what is currently reffered to as a ‘rimless’ aquarium. And this trend is affected all parts of the hobby, nano reefs, 100g-200g reefs and even some larger  systems. I’m sure we can [...]

Do you remember the age ole’ saying that if you’re going to setup a marine aquarium you should aim for the biggest you can afford? Well, seeing as the world’s economic climate is still in a mess that means most people can only afford to setup a nanoreef. But don’t let that be a negative… [...]

The amount of colour morph’s within the Chalice coral collective will always amaze me. I stumbled across this post on Reef2Reef by iReefer and the coral he has named, Bleeding Apple Chalice (BAC). All I can say is, “Whooooah!” – it sure is a gem. What do you think?
There are apparently five frags of this [...]

They are all the rage, they come in just about any colour combination, they command crazy prices – this is the group of corals known as the Chalices and they are ideal corals for a nanoreef (if you can afford them).
Today it is almost impossible to see a photo of a reef tank (nano, medium [...]