Tropical Fish Information

DIY saltwater aquarium sump tank and overflow

A movie about tropical fish becoming parents! Platys are livebearer fish, which means female deliver live babies (fry). A day or two before she delivered, I put the expectant mother in a livebearer breeder trap. The babies fall through the slits in the floor and are safe from their mother’s apetite! Then after a recovery time the mother is released back into the tank. Aren’t those tiny fish cute? ***************** Music: “Photo theme: Window like” by Antony Raijekov 2005 – Licensed under Creative Commons

My new 20 gallon fish tank with 2 electric yellow cichlids, 2 Female Kenyi (one male Kenyi died), 5 tiger barbs, and 1 Plecostomus. This is my first tank, and just put the fish in it the day I took this video so the fish are very energetic and curious. The tank is filtered with a 30gal tetra filter, heated with a Aqueo 100 watt heater, and has a bubble bar in the back. Enjoy!

1 Gallon Pico Reef, 1/2 gallon sealed SPS reef tank, 19 gallon bog terrarium globe, 75 gallon planted tank with Co2 injection. Keeping ecosystems in odd containers changes the chemistry and dynamics interestingly and has a direct correlation to evaporation rates, nitrate binding or export, and temperature stabilization to name a few. For example, a fluted vase design allows for an inner-diameter resting lid, which changes the salinity and saltcreep maintenance drastically vs any other shape. It also provides an angled surface for detritus accumulation, which is easily wiped for maintenance and this is (nitrogen) export. A small square palmtop design, with an internal plant sub-division, becomes the first and still the only longterm sealed (non evaporating) coral reef aquarium, growing acroporid coral specimens into 3 inch tabular forums documented over a two year course. Shape matters in pico reef design, and pico reef design matters to marine biology as a whole because it influences coral morphology, allelopathy, and new observations for science unique to hyperconcentrated niche environments. thank you for stopping by! I invite everyone to discuss the biology or problems associated with any aquarium care, and feel free to link your own micro reefs if you keep them. Anyone who would like to research pico reef history can start at Reefs.Org and Reefcentral around 2002 and nano-reef.com These forums paved the way for the explosion in popularity and are 95% of the existing …

A brief video article which discusses the basics of fishless cycling a freshwater aquarium.