Bespoke Aquarium

Having just completed another large 300 litre water change I am so glad that I planned the aquarium water change process. Within 30 minutes I have changed this with opened a drain valve, closing a drain valve, opening the water change valve and walking away. Coming back to find the float switch has done the [...]

I often get asked questions about Marine Aquarium Salinity. So lets start at the bottom and work our way up.   How do we measure specific gravity Measuring salinity is a quick process using a Hydrometer orRefractometer.   Twenty five years ago a hyrdometer would have been used by anyone with a salt water aquarium but these are often [...]

Paris 19.11.10: Leading shark conservation unions the Shark Alliance and the European Elasmobranch Association (EEA) are calling for concrete measures to curb over-fishing of vulnerable Atlantic sharks at this week’s meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) in Paris. More than a dozen species of sharks are commonly targeted or [...]

Yellow Surgeonfish | Yellow Hawaiian Tang Scientific Name: Zebrasoma flavescens (Bennett, 1828).  Other Common Names: Yellow Surgeonfish, Yellow Hawaiian Tang.  Distribution:  A species considered endemic to Hawaiian waters, its distribution extends from the Hawaiian area westward through the northern Marshall Islands to Wake, Marcus, Guam, and other Marianas Islands.  Identification: Yellow oval shaped body with a nocturnal [...]

A wonderful idea would be to build an extension on the side of your house and put your marine aquarium in there with a hole in the wall showing the marine aquarium like a picture on a wall. Wonderful idea and Mr Boffeys dreams of this are coming true. I will get some of the [...]

I got my first look at the TMC AquaBeam 1000HD and I was impressed.  Solid State Lighting with 10 x CREE XP-G R+ PowerLEDs driven at 700mA (upgradeable to 1000mA) using a Total Power Consumption of 23W. The Total Luminous Flux (lumens) 700mA-approx 1850 lm and 1000mA-approx 1970 lm with Wide angle lenses. The units [...]

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Having a Refractometer is in my view one of the most important pieces of equipment. This means that you can accurately measure the salinity of the water. I recommend using a Deltec Refractometer.    INSTRUCTIONS FOR ATC NATURAL SEA WATER REFRACTOMETER Hand held instrument for the measurement of Salinity and Specific Gravity (S.G.) by refractive [...]

the most simplest way of describing what a Protein Skimmer is by starting off by answering the question… Why do I need one? The sea is vast in size bad our wonderful marine fish love nice clean water. The small volume of water in our marine aquariums compared to the sea means that the levels of protein build [...]

Deltec have again been so clever with their T5 Aquablue Plus Powerchrome bulbs. The D-D Aquablue Plus is specifically designed for reef aquariums mimicking sea water to a depth of one to twenty meters. It can be used for growing SPS corals up to 80cm in the aquarium. D-D were the first on the market in [...]