Newest Comline filter- the 3162
The Comline Filters: Freshwater Simplicity at its Best!
Hang-on-Back filters have one real advantage: they’re cheap. After that, they’re mainly noisy, messy and bulky. Canister filters are a great improvement on them; they’re quieter, cleaner and easy to hide away. They do have one big disadvantage though, cleaning them can be a bit of a chore. To clean a canister filter properly you’ll …
How often should you change your Activated Carbon?
Ah, carbon. Foundation for everything organic, it’s the building block of life. But as with building blocks of any kind it can be used to build great things, like fish and corals, and it can be used to build, horrible, unspeakable things, like dissolved organics, the forefathers of nitrates and phosphates. But in a classic …
Aquarium Ecology: Early investigations into water quality and the practice of changing water.
The following is an excerpt from a now out-of-print book published in 1998 titled Aquarium Ecology. The book covers a very wide range of topics. Its value today is derived, at least in part, from its many technical explanations. These explanations often expose some of the research that was behind the development of the tools …