When we humans enter a dark room, we turn the light on to enable us to see. Intelligent technology! That, of course, is not the reason for the importance of marine reef aquarium lighting, though we do need to see inside the aquarium. Ok, but what about fish aquariums? These
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Lighting is very important to the marine aquarium. Fish need light as they respond to ‘daylight’ as they would in the wild, coming out to search for food. Most corals need light to remain healthy, the light ‘feeds’ the zooanthellae. Not only is light needed for corals, it needs to
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Saving electricity, now there’s something that everyone is interested in. Usually usage can be lowered to a greater or smaller extent. With the marine aquarium it starts at the planning stage. Buying the correct size heater(s) is important, buying smaller ones doesn’t help, they’ll either be inadequate to the detriment
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Aquarium shape is not particularly thought about when an aquarium is being bought. There’s four sides, a bottom and sometimes a top made of sliding glasses or similar. The only thought that usually arises is ‘will it fit the space I have?’. That’s fair enough and quite normal. However aquarium
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Everyone, aquarist or not, sees a healthy established marine reef aquarium as beautiful. It’s an advertisement for Mother Nature, and to humans an alien world. The corals sway in the currents displaying lovely colours and interesting shapes. So what is so important to corals in the aquarium and in the
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Lighting the marine aquarium, wow, this could be a big subject! In fact it doesn’t need to be, as said on other occasions there isn’t a requirement to wear horn-rimmed glasses and a white coat when enjoying the marine aquarium hobby. Lighting has been written about before but seems to
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Not too long ago I had the pleasure of visiting Dubai, a warm and modern country. It boasts the tallest building in the world, the biggest shopping mall in the world and within the mall the biggest aquarium in the world. Without a doubt an aquarium like that is well
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It seems to be an easy guess that most aquariums bought will come under the ‘simple’ category. New aquarists will be advised what is required – the simple aquarium – and it probably will not be until very much later when considerable experience has been gathered that more advanced ideas
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There it is, a beautiful fish only or reef aquarium. All is done, a variety of fish swimming about, if a reef among and over colourful corals. What can assist the life in the aquarium and make it more interesting for the aquarist? If fully stocked it shouldn’t be another
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“The fish are fine under standard non-aquarium lights, even if I buy just white lights they are still ok. Why not corals?” This is an understandable question. Marine reef fish come from the same areas as the corals so why spend more? There is a good answer and no, it
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