Six guides, no mysticism. Water chemistry, light, flow, feeding, coral warfare and the pests you will actually meet. Every number here is one we run in our own systems.
Corals are sessile animals competing for the same rock and the same light, and they have been fighting that war for millions of years. Your tank is a very small battlefie...
You can test alkalinity to two decimals and still lose corals to a dead spot you never noticed. Flow moves food in, moves waste out, and stops detritus from settling on t...
There is more mysticism about reef lighting than about anything else in this hobby. It is simpler than it sounds: PAR is how much usable light reaches a spot, and every c...
An LPS tank that gets fed grows at two or three times the speed of one that does not. Feeding is also the fastest way to foul a tank, so the technique matters as much as...
Almost every pest in a reef tank arrives on a frag plug. Dip everything, quarantine what you can, and learn to recognize these five, because the difference between a nuis...
Corals do not die from a bad number. They die from a number that moves. Everything below is written around that one idea. The numbers that matter ParameterTargetHow often...
