Tannin Aquatics
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If you've been in the aquarium game long enough, you start thinking about stuff like just "why things happen the way they do" in our aquariums. And sometimes, there seem to be no answers...at least on the surface.
We saw this a lot in the reef aquarium world: An aquarist would send months and months planning, designing, and constructing the seemingly "ultimate reef system", with every arcane detail taken care of- often at great expense, in terms of time and money- only to find after just a few months that the aquarium has developed into a seemingly perennial haven for nuisance algae, fish and coral losses, and equipment failures of all sorts.
How? Why?
Other times, we develop a concept for an aquarium, tweak and test it on small tanks, and build it our based on our encouraging initial results...And for some reason, when we "build it at scale", our carefully-thought out dream tank becomes an unmanageable, unstable, or otherwise untenable haven for assorted aquatic problems. What causes this to happen? (click to read more)
We saw this a lot in the reef aquarium world: An aquarist would send months and months planning, designing, and constructing the seemingly "ultimate reef system", with every arcane detail taken care of- often at great expense, in terms of time and money- only to find after just a few months that the aquarium has developed into a seemingly perennial haven for nuisance algae, fish and coral losses, and equipment failures of all sorts.
How? Why?
Other times, we develop a concept for an aquarium, tweak and test it on small tanks, and build it our based on our encouraging initial results...And for some reason, when we "build it at scale", our carefully-thought out dream tank becomes an unmanageable, unstable, or otherwise untenable haven for assorted aquatic problems. What causes this to happen? (click to read more)
