by Ben Johnson | May 8, 2019 | Press Room
I’ve been gainfully employed in the aquarium industry since 1995. There have been so many fish, freshwater and saltwater, that have come and gone under my care. I’ve tried my best to treat them all with as much care as possible. Many times, I came up...
by Ben Johnson | May 7, 2019 | Press Room
If you are new to the saltwater aquarium hobby, you are likely trying not to drown in all the information being thrown at you at once. I’m here to help do what I can to demystify some of what might be confusing you. Let’s take protein skimmers. Such an...
by Ben Johnson | Apr 27, 2019 | Press Room
April 2019: Me and 4 friends pulled a 1,000 pound glass aquarium out of a wall and placed it on a trailer to be returned to the manufacturer. This 96″ x 36″ x 37″ (550 gallon) freshwater system had cracked on one end, top to bottom, because of an...
by Ben Johnson | Mar 19, 2019 | Press Room
Hello everyone, I have had great success removing Majano anemones with a dental pick. I have noticed that Majano don’t seem to put their feet down as strongly as Aptasia do. If you get the sharp point of a dental pick through the mouth of one and go all the way...
by Ben Johnson | Mar 18, 2019 | Press Room
Hello all, Getting Tubastrea sp. (sun coral), a non-photosynthetic coral, to open up can sometimes be tricky in the beginning. These corals really need to be fed daily as they are not photosynthetic like most of the corals we keep. I think part of the reason they seem...
by Ben Johnson | Mar 16, 2019 | Press Room
Hello all, Detritus: In biology, detritus is dead particulate organic material. It typically includes the bodies or fragments of dead organisms as well as fecal material. Detritus is typically colonized by communities of microorganisms which act to decompose the...
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