Is Fish Tank Light Harmful For Your Fish?

There are specific lights made especially for fish tanks, which are not harmful for the fish, in fact they are always recommended to give fish warm through it. Today there a large variety of fish tank lights available out there from which you can easily choose the one that matches best your house and décor. Matching The Fish Tank Light With The Decor Fish tank lights come today in many colors due to which you can choose the right one for your house décor, furniture and personality. Fish are known to have a relaxing effect and that is the reason why many pick blue as fish tank light to further increase that effect. If the light you pick is soothing you can easily use it as a night light as well depending where in the house the fish tank is installed. Another reason why blue is widely popular as aquarium light is because it imitates the color of the ocean and we would like to think that we can offer our fish the closest to their natural environment. If the fish tank is placed in the office you may want to pick a more appropriate color to the purpose. Now, you may not always be sure what color to choose due to which there are specialist who can work with you and find the best color for you fish tank. When choosing a fish tank light you must also consider the décor it is placed in for example if everything in the said room is green then you may lean towards the shades of green or any other color that will match the same. A fish tank light gives you the chance to display your fish tank as a piece of furniture and show it off to anyone who cares to enjoy it. Aquarium For A Stress Free Life It is said that watching fish can be the most relaxing hobby without really having to do much at all. It is supposed to calm your nerves and release stress; after all, all pets are supposed to do that but it seems the fish are highest rated of all. The fish tank light color can add to calming your nerves and releasing stress depending on the color you choose. Fish are probably the lowest maintenance pets by far, you don’t have to walk them, take them for check ups to the vet, get litter boxes or worry that you are not home in time and they may go all over the house and last but not least the amount you will spend on food it completely negligible.

Finding Good Fish for Your 150 Gallon Fish Tank

A 150 gallon fish tank is one of the largest fish tanks that you can buy, and so if you have purchased one of these, you have made an incredible investment, and it is important to know certain fact. . .

Replacement Pump Shipped
EuroReef finally provided a tracking number for the replacement skimmer pump. The e-mail said it would ship in 72 hours, took a week at least it is on the way.

Urchin's making a dent.
The urchins are making a big impact on keep the rocks clean, lots of new coralline growth again in the sections cleaned by the urchins. The rocks were not bad, but new coralline growth had slowed significantly. The urchins eat what they can find opening new settlement places.

Replaced Kalkwasser Mixer Step Motor, Now on Shutoff Relay.
The step motor which mixed my kalkwasser operated at a low 8 RPMs to keep the lower water column saturated but upper column produced clear kalkwasser which was dripped into the sump. This motor was not on a relay, it ran 24/7 and got pretty hot. I'm assuming it was not designed to be run this way.

I purchased a replacement step motor off e-bay and hard wired it to the top off water bottle relay switch which controls the top off water pump. Now when my 5 gallon water bottle of RO/DI is empty the water float relay will turn off the return pump and the kalkwasser mixer.

Hopefully this will extend the life of the mixer.

Left RO/DI flush valve open over night... oops.
About every 4th time that I refill my RO/DI holding vat (20 gallons) I open the flush valve to purge the RO membrane. This helps to extend the life of the membrane.

Typically you would leave the valve open for about 5 minutes, close the valve and make the RO/DI water. I got side tracked. This morning I went to get water and the holding vat was still empty yet the booster pump was running... then I remembered. The valve was still open.

Going to get a big water bill next month. *sigh*

Tabling Acropora Recovery Images.
This is an example of a acropora coral which I left for dead when the tank crash happened and amazingly it is in process of a great recovery and even showing new growth spurts.

no snails, water change
No snails arrived, so i guess they’ll prolly turn up on tuesday or wednesday. Sensibly enough they don’t dispatch before the weekend, and promise to mail when they do. Of course, this also means there won’t be a monday delivery as they wouldn’t have done anything over the weekend. Just about to do a small water [...]