Water Chemistry

I was just leafing through the new Coral magazine for November/December and noticed an advertisement from Brightwell about some new products coming out. One of which is the media dealing with phosphate removal and said it is 500% more effective than GFO. Does that sound like snake oil or is it just me? I am curious what other people think.

Also, I just looked and couldn't seem to find the product on Brightwell's website even. Strange.

Further to my queery about using the de humidifier water for makeup water, which I wont do (thanks to all), is 2 1/2 gallons of kalkwasser per day to use fur make up water? Because the pH is so high I thought it might be too much.

Hello everyone!Sorry about how much I blog I know I get annoying especially to melev cuz I always tag him but I cannot help myself lolAnyways about 1 hour ago I took the proverbial leap into the world of SPS corals by purchasing a decent size frag of Pocilliopora !!!!!! Now I would like to know of any previous encounters and specific care techniques and secrets of these corals so that i may have the best chances with my first SPS coral I use the exact same fixtures that this SPS is was grown ...

I came across an interesting interview with Giacomo Bernardi, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, while listening to one of my favorite podcast, Science Sort Of..., and I wanted to share it with community at ReefAddicts. They talk about the unusual behavior of a particular wrasse that was observed in nature. It is the first fish ever reported to use tools!
Here is the link to the podcast episode which I strongly recommend everyone listen ...

Well it's been a while since I have wrote a tank update so here we go. I am still fighting the caulerpa outbreak in my tank but with regular trimmings and one of my newest tank addition (a yellow tang) it is starting to come under control a bit.

My wife found that there was water magically appearing around the tank and after further investigation I discovered my pump was leaking that cycled water in my closed loop system. I have yet to get the time to try and figure out a new way of ...