Reef tanks, like natural coral reefs, can vary widely in their appearance; some places like oceanic islands the water is crystal clear and there’s not that much nutrients to fuel brown soft corals or algae growth in the first place. But as you get closer to shore, larger islands and especially effluents of rivers, the water becomes greener and it fuels a wide range of non-coral growth.
这两个栖息地都非常适合种植珊瑚，但作为我们在房屋和企业中存在的水族馆的礁石，我们希望对一个遥远的热带岛屿的完美代表。在水箱中漂浮着几块有机材料并没有错，但是如果您希望该博物馆优质的水族馆外观，这里有五个技巧，可以使您的水族馆和水看起来清洁清晰。
水变化
For some reason the mere认为对于大多数水族馆来说，进行水的变化似乎类似于琐事。我们在储罐外做很多事情，以减少所需的水变化数量。虽然这可能在大量水域已经达到所需的化学反应的较大的礁石罐中更有用，但储罐越小，用良好的水和盐混合物代替水测试和给药就越有意义。
但是，认真地说，在大型和小型坦克上进行水的变化就像是立即引起的习惯。在一两个小时内进行换水，不仅水会更清楚，而且您会发现立即振奋珊瑚和所有海洋生物。
It’s hard to pin down what it is exactly that water changes remove from the water that is akin to a reset, but there’s no question that doing a decent, regular water change, without doing anything else, will almost always dramatically clear up your aquarium water. And the decreased nutrients will certainly reduce algae growth on your rocks, glass and substrate.
活性炭
活性炭如果有一种练习最类似于在不实际施加任何水的情况下进行换水，那就是活性碳的使用。在数小时内将少量碳添加到过滤器水流的区域中，您会看到水的清晰度提高。
There’s all grades and qualities of activated carbon and while diving into the various kinds is fodder enough for another separate article. Don’t get caught up in all the fancy carbons, just use a reasonable amount, around a handful per 30 to 50 gallons once a week will work wonders for keeping that tank looking shiny.
许多Reefers声明他们不想使用活性碳，因为它“去除了痕量元素”。这是100％正确的，但您知道还有什么去除跟踪元素？实际上，礁石坦克中的所有东西。因此，无论如何，您都应该定期定期给广泛的微量元素补充，无论有或不用定期使用碳。
清洁过滤器！
如果您从不清洁过滤器，您如何期望有一个干净的坦克？每个前过滤器，每条过滤袜子，甚至您的蛋白质撇渣器都是水族馆中水质管理的重要要素，如果您想要一个超干净的水箱，则必须定期清洁过滤器。
keeping these working optimally is the first line of defense to trap all the waste, poop, and detritus that gets transported around the aquarium. It might be tedious to manually clean and replace these filters but one way to make it easier is to have spares so you can hot-swap filters and sponges and get your hands wet only once during maintenance.
絮凝剂——海洋Snow/Clarity
Now here’s a couple tricks that they don’t tell you about in the ‘books’. There’s a class of additives that you can add to your aquarium water which will clear your water like you never thought possible. Flocculants like Brightwell Aquatics Clarifi-SW will bind small bits of waste in your water into larger pieces making it easier for your filters to remove them from suspension in your aquarium water.
我真的很喜欢透明水的另一个产品是Zeovit珊瑚雪。与被认为是珊瑚的食物的海洋雪不同，海洋雪是一种非常精美的液化粉，会使您的水变得令人难以置信的多云。但是，这些小颗粒实际上会捕获您看不见的有机物，但确实会使您的水变得淡黄。就像絮凝的珊瑚雪将被包括撇渣器在内的水族馆过滤器所困，因为它很重，其中一些实际上只会沉入底部。
首先保持清洁！
If you’ve got a massively overloaded tank with tons of fish, a deep sand bed and you feed with a heavy hand, how can you ever expect to have a tank as clear as a lightly stocked reef tank with no sand bed and virtually no feeding at all? You can’t, and for the most part our reef tanks are neither of these extremes.
Try to strike a balance in how much sand you use, how many fish and how large they are, and how often you feed your reef tank. For 98% of you reading this right now, I guarantee that you could feed your tank less and it would be fine, if not the better for it.
另外，如果您想到的是，您真的希望坦克变得更加干净，不要期望即时效果。通过定期换水，使用中间碳的使用和定期清洁过滤器，您确实可以获取水箱 - 现在拥有的水箱 - 看起来新鲜和干净，而无需大幅变化水族馆系统。您履行这些水族馆职责的时间越长，更常规的礁石罐的清洁剂以及随之而来的所有动物健康。
