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This is my first aquarium video. Nothing special except two of my new additions:



For several weeks I've kept a Caulastrea and a green-tip hammer coral in quarantine and I decided that it was now safe to introduce them to my tank. The hammer coral I picked up from a local club member. I was expecting a small head of coral, but he handed me a huge deli container with a 4-inch tall frag. It's now the largest piece in my tank and it's ...

Brightwell Aquatics Reef BioFuel Dosing

I was lucky enough to stumble across a bottle of Brightwell Aquatics Reef BioFuel today in a local fish store in Long Island near my job. I am using this to provide a carbon source for Phosphate and Nitrate removal. According to the instructions I must add approximately 2 drops per 1 gallon (I have added 10 drops to my aquarium) and will have to leave the Protein Skimmer off for a period of 2 - 6 hours after each dose (in my case the since I ...