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Aquarium Maintenance

You Are Your Own Janitor!

What’s the best practices for keeping your aquarium maintained? How do you take care of your aquarium water? How do you keep your aquarium glass clean? How do you get rid of algae in your aquarium?




Articles:

How to Maintain Your Aquarium On a Budget. We love spending money on our aquariums, but we would much rather buy new fish than maintenance items such as filter media and additives. Here are some simple ways to lower the ongoing maintenance costs of your aquarium.

How to Lower pH in a Freshwater Aquarium. In freshwater aquariums with angelfish, discus, and other South American fish, it is common to have a target pH of 6.0-7.5. This is lower than most aquariums normally measure at. Here are the top four ways to lower your aquarium pH.

How To Get Rid of Algae In An Aquarium. If you have an aquarium, then you will get algae. Here are the five ways to eliminate algae from your aquarium.

How To Decrease Ammonia In An Aquarium: A healthy Aquarium should have no detectable ammonia in it. If you have ammonia in your aquarium then it is in the context of one of 3 different situations.

How To Reduce Nitrates in an Aquarium: The three methods for reducing nitrates in an aquarium.

How To Reduce Phosphates in an Aquarium: The five methods for reducing phosphates in an aquariums.

Defeating The Cyanobacteria Monster: What is it? What causes it? And how to prevent it?

Fix It Or Pitch It: When Does It Make Sense to Repair Aquarium Products: Which aquarium gear can somewhat easily be repaired, and which aquarium gear is it only practical to replace?

Why Is My Aquarium Cloudy?: There are a variety of reasons your aquarium water can be cloudy but they all come down to 4 primary causes

How Often Should You Do Aquarium Water Changes?: This is one of the most common questions aquarium owners have. First of all, it doesn’t matter if your aquarium is a freshwater aquarium or a saltwater aquarium. And it doesn’t matter if you have plants or corals.

Picking The Right Aquarium Algae Magnet Cleaner: When choosing a magnet, there are five critical questions.

Cleaning Basics 101: Six Pro Cleaning Tips: Regular preventative maintenance is the key to keeping your aquarium clean

Aquarium Water Changes: Making It Simple: We have different methods for saltwater and for freshwater aquariums and different methods for small aquariums and for large aquariums.

Top 10 Aquarium Maintenance Tips: These tips will make cleaning simple and effective

Battling Aquarium Algae: Is it necessary to battle algae with a Jedi Lightsaber like Crazy Dave? We don't judge, but perhaps there are better ways to fight algae.These tips will help make things easy

Coral Fragging Overview: Keeping an aquarium is like underwater gardening. In keeping with this analogy, fragging a coral is like pruning a plant.

A Simple Guide To Aquarium Auto Top-Offs: An auto top-off will also save you time and make it easy to maintain your water level during a vacation. Added benefits include better protein skimmer performance and supplement dosing.

How To Save On A Tank's Electric Bill: Three simple areas where energy savings can make a difference are pumps, lighting, and temperature control.

Preparing Your Aquarium For A Power Outage: Power outages are one of the many problems that aquarists don’t think about until it is too late. Power outages caused by bad weather, car accidents, tripped breakers, or simply poor wiring, can kill all the animals in your tank in a matter of hours.

Ten Tips for Making Your Aquarium Quieter: There is nothing more relaxing than gazing at a beautiful aquarium. But the aquarium noise can sometimes detract from the experience. Here are ten ways to keep your aquarium quiet.

It All Starts With Water: “Good aquarists don’t maintain aquariums. They maintain water.”— A Wise Aquarist

Should You Cover Your Tank?: Deciding to cover your tank or not is not an easy decision. Here are the arguments for and against having a cover.

Wiring Your Aquarium: Aquariums often have more cords and wires than originally imagined. The tangle of cords, power strips, power supplies, timers, control cables, and control boxes can get very messy. Here are some quick tips that can keep your electrical equipment safe, easy to use, and neat.

Aquarium Monsters: These monsters don't go bump in the night, nor do they need a wooden stake or silver bullet to be slain!


Videos:


Water Changes: Jaron explains how small, weekly water changes are the key to maintaining your aquarium. He also explains how to avoid herpes, spend less on additives and NOT get a mouthful of water full of fish poop.

Top 10 Aquarium Maintenance Tips: 10 aquarium maintenance tips from Jaron at MarineAndReef.com to get your aquarium looking its best and staying clean for when you have company coming over for the holidays and beyond.

Cleaning Glass: In this video Jaron and Cel discuss strategies for keeping your glass clean using algae magnets, scrapers and algae pads.

Using Citric Acid: In this video Jaron and Cel discuss how to clean your pumps, heaters, UVs and other equipment with citric acid in order to maximize performance.

Coral Fragging: Coral Fragging Basics from Jaron at MarineAndReef.com.

JBJ Auto Top Off: The JBJ Auto Top Off (A.T.O.) Water Level Controller is a professional grade product that automates refilling evaporated water.

Python No Spill Water Change System: If you are tired of the old routine, then it's about time you cut your aquarium maintenance time in half with Python's complete, ready-to-use system, the NO SPILL CLEAN and FILL! No buckets, no siphons, no mess, no tank tear downs - EVER again!

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