Prepared foods have their merits. Aside from the obvious (their convenience), they are consistent in quality, easily available and
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Tig Pods: A Food for Many
The reef aquarium hobby continues to reach new heights. This is most evident by the extraordinarily beautiful systems we see on display
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Boosting Reef Aquarium Diversity With Live Phytoplankton
Saltwater aquarium keeping certainly come a long way in a relatively short period of time. Heck, we only started widely using live rock
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Ultimate Refugium Starter Pack
The Ultimate Refugium Starter Pack
Everything you need to set up, start and seed a healthy refugium.
Setting up a new refugium?
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MarinePure Rocks
Marine Pure Rock Ceramic Biofilter Media: The Ideal Copepod Habitat
Why does AlgaeBarn like the Marine Pure Rock?
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Biofilter Plate
Marine Pure Plate Ceramic Biofilter Media: The Ideal Copepod Habitat
Why does AlgaeBarn like the Marine Pure Plate?
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2″ Cubes
Marine Pure Cubes 2" Ceramic Biofilter Media: The ideal Copepod habitat
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1.5″ Spheres
Marine Pure Spheres 1½" Ceramic Biofilter Media: The ideal Copepod habitat
Why does AlgaeBarn like Marine Pure Spheres?
In
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Isochrysis: The Microalgal Reef Aquarium Superfood
When imagining scenes from a warm, sunny, tropical coral reef habitat, it is easy to fill the visage with images of those
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Getting Your Greens: The Benefits of Feeding Live Nannochloropsis
Most of us want—and should want—our aquarium systems to more or less function ecologically in a way that resembles natural marine
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A Look at the Moon Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita)
It was not so long ago that one could see jellyfish only at the public aquarium or in the ocean. There were few or no sources of
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BIOTA Blue Tang – Blemish
Blue Tang (Paracanthurus hepatus)
An old favorite, there is hardly a bluer fish than the venerable blue tang. Blue tangs are energetic
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Exoskeletons, Roughage and Digestive Health
Unlike marine animals, who use chitin, we humans, and most other terrestrial animals, benefit greatly from dietary fiber. Consisting of
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Keeping and Feeding the Fairy Wrasses
In addition to being “reef-safe,” there are a number of attributes that make Fairy Wrasses a great aquarium fish: hardiness, a high
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The Hardy Copepod
The ocean is not always a hospitable place to be for an animal. This is especially so in the shallows, where unstable temperatures,
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A Closer Look at the Harpacticoid Copepod Tisbe Biminiensis
There are many different reasons to add copepods to one’s marine aquarium system. Each copepod species has its own set of attributes
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Keeping and Feeding the Sun Corals
Reef aquarium keepers are always looking for that one oddball “piece” of coral that will really make their aquarium display shine.
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Carnation Corals in the Home Aquarium: A New Hope of Success?
Advancements in the reef aquarium hobby have been developing at a dizzying pace. As our understanding of coral reef biota (and how to
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Choosing the Right Live Phytoplankton Reef Tank Blends
Many common reef aquarium animals are filter-feeding phytoplanktivores. In other words, they eat tiny (usually single-celled) algae
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Tisbee Pods & OceanMagik
Tisbee Pods
Tisbe Biminiensis
These smaller, yet hardy copepods tend to inhabit the cracks and crevasses of live rock and macroalgae.
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