Guide to Buying Saltwater Fishes

Buying saltwater fish for your newly set up saltwater aquarium is the most exciting and rewarding part of setting up.
When choicing your saltwater fish we need choice the healthy nad happy fish to ensure the best chance of a maintaining a nice aquarium.
Saltwater Fish carry so many pathogens – organisms that cause fish diseases, which [...]

Blue-green Algae (Cyanobacteria)

Blue-green algae are technically not algae at all in fact they are a bacteria. Due to fact they are aquatic and make their own food they are considered an algae.
This group of bacteria is called the Cyanobacteria.
The Blue Green Algae are very small and single celled but can grow large enough to colonies your saltwater [...]

Diatoms Algae

Diatoms are microscopic cells composed of overlapping half shells of silica, which spend their lives floating in the ocean or in the sediments near the bottom.
Their silica shells, called frustules, are microscopic size and makes them hard to see.
The Diatom’s iIn the ocean form a major part of the “plant-plankton” called phytoplankton, which provides important [...]

Brown Algae (Phaeophyta)

Brown Algae is form the Phaeophyta group and consists of around 3,000 species, which are mostly seaweeds.
Their results from the dominance of a xanthophylls pigment, which masks other pigments including chlorophyll.
Colors range from pale beige to yellow-brown to almost black.
The most common form of brown Algae is called kelp. They are the largest algae and [...]

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