Monthly Archives: September 2010

Magnesium Supplement for Marine Aquariums

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It’s widely known that magnesium plays a very important role in marine aquariums -  brands such as D-D even add extra magnesium to their H2Ocean Pro+ Salt as they feel the slightly elevated level is essential.

Tropic Marin Bio Magnesium is a magnesium supplement essential for reef building coralline algae as calcium. Magnesium is one of the core constituents of sea water so if the level is not correct, it will only cause you trouble for your fish and corals.  So why does magnesium deplete so quickly? Evaporation and calcareous animals are the two main culprits. Ideal levels are to remain between 1280-1300ppm. Simple top ups with this Magnesium supplement ensure everything remains stable but if you find after testing your magnesium levels are low, don’t suddenly increase your levels dramatically. Whilst it’s important to correct the level, you must do it slowly to avoid shocking the system. At the same time keep the level below 1600 ppm.

Other benefits of this product:

  • helps accelerate skeleton growth of corals
  • helps maintain natural ionic concentrations
  • contains no phosphates or nitrates

For a range of other coral health water supplements please visit our page which can be found here.

Trace Elements for Marine Invertebrates

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You can always trust well known brands such as Tropic Marin and for good reason too – they spend a lot of money on researching so when the time comes to bringing the product to market, you can bet it works well.

I’d like to introduce you to Tropic Marin Pro Coral Mineral. This is a product that contains all the same trace elements that you would find in natural sea water with high concentrations. Normally this is not possible as the higher minerals need to be bound by some form of nitrate or phosphate which would be no good in a marine environment.

If you have a marine tank which has a lot of corals, your tank would improve with the addition of Tropic Marin Pro Coral Mineral.

For more coral and marine health product follow this link.

Tropic Marin Pro Coral Mineral 250g

How To Plant Aquarium Grass

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Like most things, it’s easy to learn how to plant aquarium grass when you follow the steps. In this article I’ll describe how to do it.

Aquarium grass is better known as Lilaeopsis Novea-Zeelandiae and is a relatively straight forward plant to deal with. It grows easily making it suitable for beginners and up. The great thing about it is that it looks just like the grass you would find in your garden and the reason why it’s such a popular plant for the aquarium.

When your plant arrives, remove it from the pot. Then under running water remove the rock wool – which will come off very easily. Once you have done this, take some scissors and cut the plant into 6 or 8 pieces. Any excess roots can be trimmed to 1cm or so.

Take a pair of tweesers and hold the plant firmly at the base of the plant, insert into the substrate and wiggle the plant a little, so the substrate settles around the root. Then gently remove the tweesers and the substrate will stay where it is. Plant the remaining pieces of plant within 3cm of the next so it gives the plant a chance to spread easily.

That’s it! You can see how easy it is to plant aquarium plants and how a few pots will go a long way

For more plant you can visit this link.

Ultimate Aquarium Heaters

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Making sure that your aquariums is of a tropical temperature and stays that way is paramount for your live stock. For that reason is really important you have a heater which you can rely on.

The TMC V2 Therm Digital Aquarium Heaters are digital heaters with an easy to read display. Temperature can be set from 20 to 34 degrees celcius which means they are suitable for discus tanks and marine tanks in particular.

Poorly made heaters have a low life expectancy and let you down just when you really need them. The TMC V2 Therm Digital Aquarium Heaters are durable, made with high quality materials and are designed to last.  View the range here.

For all other heaters you can see them here.

Tetra Quick Step Kit – An ideal aquarium start up solution

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Tetra are well known to many aquarist because of their range of quality products. They’ve produces a useful kit which contains 4 different products and it’s aimed at people who want to know what they should buy to get them going in their first aquarium.

The pack contains:

  • Aquasafe (makes tap water safe)
  • SafeStart (establishes filter)
  • TetraMin (fish food)
  • EasyBalance (maintains a healthy aquarium).

This Tetra Quick Step Kit has become popular and it means if you’re not sure what you should be buying to get you going, this is the answer :)

For all other water conditioners for your aquarium, visit this link.