One of the most common questions after cycling a new tank is, without a doubt “How many fish can I put in?”. Since sadly aquariums don’t come with stocking charts attached, aquarists have developed a variety of methods to estimate the optimal number of fish for a given aquarium. An overcrowded aquarium is usually too […]
How To Raise pH on a Reef Tank Safely
What Is The Best pH for Reef Tanks In order to understand what is the best pH for a reef tank, we’ll need to look a bit into how coral grows, as that process is heavily influenced by the pH and hardness of the water. A coral reef in nature is a colony of polyps, […]
New Tank Syndrome And How To Prevent It
New tank syndrome is the term people use to refer to unexplained death of fish in an aquarium that is new, or under 3 months of life. Most cases of new tank syndrome can partially be blamed on inexperienced aquarist, but even people who have had aquariums for years lose some fish to this at […]
What Is Aquarium Cycling
or Why Are All My New Aquarium Fish Dying? Many people buy an aquarium, set it up with the filters, decoration, and heating, and after a few days they start adding in fish. Those fish proceed then to die over the period of a few days, leaving the new aquarium owner understandably upset. If this […]