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07/16/03 - Choosing Your Biological Filter Material
Bio Balls, sand, gravel, carbon.  Which is the most efficient in a Wet/Dry or Trickle filter?  Knowing the surface area of each material can help you make a wise decision.

07/11/03 - Simple Cure For Brown Algae Problems
No long winded explanations of what it is and how it gets into your tank.  Just easy, step by step method to quickly get rid of Brown Algae and keep it away.

07/04/03 - Simple Cure For Green Hair Algae
No long winded explanations of what it is and how it gets into your tank.  Just easy, step by step method to quickly get rid of Green Hair Algae and keep it away.

07/01/03 - What is New Tank Syndrome?
Learn what NTS is, what causes it, and find out what you can do to void the many reasons this problem occurs in new as well as established aquariums. -- Revised 05/17/99 article.

06/21/03 - Bio-Balls Don't Go Bad, They Just Get Dirty!
Why blame the bio-balls for nitrate problems in your aquarium when it's not their fault? If you properly clean and maintain the bio-balls in a wet/dry trickle of other type of filter you can prevent them from becoming a nitrate factory.

06/19/03 - How To Eliminate Aiptasia Anemones with Lemon Juice
Your Guides share a reef safe, effective, and easy to perform lemon juice injection procedure to get rid of pesky aiptasia anemones in your aquarium.

06/17/03 - My Tank Has Finished Cycling - Now What?
A list of things from Debbie and Stan that one should do after a new saltwater aquarium has completed the nitrogen cycling process, which are the first steps in starting a good aquarium maintenance routine.

06/17/03 - What Aquarium Maintenance Procedures Should Be Performed, and When?
A list of daily, weekly, monthly, or longer in between saltwater aquarium maintenance tasks that should be scheduled to perform on a regular basis. (Revised 09/22/97 article)

05/29/03 - About Building DIY Custom Glass Aquariums
Information from your Guides about how to calculate what thickness of glass to use, which includes a calculation chart, economize on construction, and other tips you'll find helpful when constructing your own custom glass aquarium.

05/12/03 - Methods For Speeding Up The Nitrogen Cycling Process - How To Seed a New Saltwater Aquarium With Some Mature Bacteria to Help Speed Things Along
Rather than having to wait around for nature to run its course to reach the end of the long nitrogen cycling process, here are ways to seed a new tank and help speed up the process.

04/24/03 - Cycling a New Saltwater Aquarium Without Using Fish
Are you an aquarist that does not like to put fish in harms way to cycle a new tank? Your About Guides give a list other options one has to choose from to accomplish the biological or nitrogen cycling process, without having to endanger the lives of fish.

04/20/03 - Cycling a New Saltwater Aquarium With Fish - Tips For Making Good Tank Starter Fish Choices
If you are not cycling your new saltwater aquarium with live rock, read these tips from your Guides on how to choose fish to put in the tank to cycle it with. (Revised 04/20/98 article)

04/03/03 - How To Set Up a Saltwater Aquarium in 10 Easy Steps
A revisit to your About Guides outline for how to set up and get a new saltwater aquarium up and running in 10 easy steps. (Revised 01/16/02 article).

03/21/03 - Seven Cardinal Sins of Saltwater Aquaria Keeping
Brush up on THE most common mistakes made by saltwater aquarists outlined by your Guides so you can to learn what they are and how to avoid making them. (Revised)

03/11/03 - Naming of Triggerfishes or Humu Humus
With Triggerfish collectively referred to as Humu Humus and many common names applied to various species, how can you tell which is which? Triggers of Hawai'i are easy to figure out, as their Hawaiian names set them apart from one another. (Revised 07/29/98 article)

02/28/03 - Feeding Corals - Part 4: A Complete Coral Food Recipe
A food recipe similiar to what the oceans make available to reef corals in that it contains a wide variety of nutrients as well as elements and a variety of particle sizes, this makes it suitable for a mixed coral species tank.

02/21/03 - Feeding Corals - Part 3: When Do Corals Eat?
Did you know that corals derive their nutrition in several ways, all of which require that the polyps be open, either for the zooanthellae algae to gather light, or for active feeding from the environment.

02/16/03 - Feeding Corals - Part 2: What Do Corals Eat?
With such as vast array of coral species found worldwide, these marine animals are pretty selective feeders that eat a wide range of ocean produced food sources such as zooplankton, phytoplankton, and bacterioplankton.

02/13/03 - About Brown or Golden Diatom Algae
Not an algae at all, but diatoms, learn about what makes this type of algae grow and what solutions you can put into action to eliminate this problem, which is a normal occurrence and the first in the chain of algae growth in aquariums. (Revised 09/11/00 article)

02/08/03 - Feeding Corals - Part 1: Corals Need More Than a Lot of Light
A vast majority of corals require more than light to survive. Using sunlight to synthesize inorganic material into nutrition with the aid of zooxanthellae algae fulfills only a part of a coral's required diet. You have to supply the rest for growth.

02/07/03 - The Many Uses of a Turkey Baster
A very useful tool for any aquarists to have, a turkey baster is not only inexpensive, easy to clean, and made of all plastic and rubber materials, but can be used in many different ways for tank maintenance and livestock care.

01/22/03 - About Red Slime Algae
Not a "true" algae at all, but classified as a cyanobacteria, learn all about what makes this form of algae thrive in aquariums, then put into action any one of the solutions your Guides suggest to eliminate this nuisance. (Revised 09/28/00 article)

01/20/03 - About Sea Salt Mixes - Part 1: What to Look For When Choosing a Sea Salt Mix to Buy For Making Up Aquarium Water
Learn all about the abundance of elements and compounds in natural sea water to compare them to those found in sea salt mixes, and how values or measurements can change from test to test for various reasons.

01/10/03 - The Problems With Using Tap Water
Do you use water straight from the tap to make-up your sea salt mix or add top-off water to your system? If so, you may be heading for trouble, because many potential problems can arise from using unpurified tap water as your About Guides outline in this article.

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