Acropora Eating Flatworms (AEFW) are an SPS reefers nightmare. One day you can go from a pristine reef to a fully blown out plague just by introducing them with one coral. Amakusaplana acroporae, Acro eating flatworms, are species of flatworm…
What is Salt Creep
水族馆基础知识不可避免地每次收入都会撒上盐蠕变，而不是害虫，疾病和藻类，它很容易管理。盐蠕变是干涸的咸水，在水蒸发后留在表面上的盐残留物。这就是为什么…
Awesome Fish Spotlight: The Chalk Basslet
The Chalk Basslet is an overlooked unpopular fish that deserves much more credit than it receives. These wonderful fish are well behaved and are fitting for almost any aquarium. Also known as Serranus tortugarum, it is geographically found in the…
How to Care for Soft Corals
Are you just getting started on your first saltwater aquarium and looking to dive into your first corals? If so, soft corals are an excellent group of corals that are easy to care for and are pleasing to the eye.…
Invertebrate Spotlight: The Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
臭鼬清洁虾是一个最有用的crustaceans that aid in cleaning fish of parasites. Even before we saw Jacques in Finding Nemo, cleaner shrimp had already become one of the most popular invertebrates in our aquariums. Unlike cleaner wrasses,…
Why You Should Buy Captive Bred Fish
These past couple of years we’ve seen an influx of captive bred fish. This is amazing news and here’s why you should support captive bred fish in order to instill more research. Captive bred fish are fish that have been…
Care Requirements for Non-photosynthetic (NPS) Corals
Non photosynthetic corals (NPS) are some of the most unique corals you will ever see. They have the most odd shapes, textures, and cryptic behaviors. Their other name, azooxanthelle, suggests that their zooxanthelle is absent. However, studies have found that…
令人敬畏的鱼聚光灯：蓝斑jawfish
The blue spot jawfish, Opistognathus rosenblatti, is a colorful, quirky, and most beautiful members of the jawfish family. They are a popular fish that can be found in almost any local fish store, but that wasn’t always the case. Although they…
如何根据您的照明安排珊瑚
There are tons of choices when it comes to lighting in this hobby and depending on when and how you got into the hobby, it may tell what kind of lighting you have. Lighting is essential for the health of…
蛋白质撇蛋白如何改善您的水族馆维护？
Protein skimmers are the quintessential component of aquarium filtration that almost every reefer has in their sump. It is possible to be successful without one but controlling the amount organic nutrients makes aquarium maintenance much easier. Protein skimming is when…