Saturday, December 28, 2013

Maintaining The Cleanliness Of The Tank With Reef Octopus Skimmers

By Harriett Crosby


High quality water is required in order to maintain a lively and healthy artificial marine tank. When left overs and poops will break down before it will be removed to the aqua, it will release nitrite and ammonia that could kill all the species inside your tank. Anyway, there are many instruments these days that could convert these harmful materials into something that is good for everyone. And one of these instruments are the reef octopus skimmers.

Nitrogen cycle though, is not that harmful to fishes and other invertebrates marine organisms. But there are some which cannot tolerate low level of nitrate content and so they immediately die. Corals, require a super clean water and an enough nitrate in order to survive in an artificial habitat. This is why, people are using such machine to manipulate the cycle in the tank.

Before the left overs and other solid wastes break down, the machine will immediately suck them up. There are a lot of benefits you can get from this tool but to make it short, it take away all the organic wastes present in the tank. Without the contaminants, there will be no algae growth that will occur which can cause darker atmosphere in their unreal habitat.

If unwanted chemical reactions left uncured, it will cause the filtration to weaken or to stop on worst case scenarios. Those without skimmers, keeps on doing routine cleaning almost every month just to maintain the filtration stable. But those who have skimmers, they are not to do such tiring thing no more for there the aqua can be treated by it for months.

You might be curios on how doe the throwing works, what this machine does is it creates many foams and these foams will attract the wastes. The process had been called adsorption in which the bubble serves as the magnet. After that adsorption, the bubbles will bring down all the pollutants down to the surface of the machine and there they will be crushed.

Aside from that, it keeps the pH level of the aqua stable for it also suck up all microbes that contained amino acid that might make the water acidic. The other reason is that the bubbles also create oxygen that helps stabilize the acidity in water. High pH content could kill them especially in the artificial places because they have no other place to go.

Most marine lovers are very busy both with their careers and personal life and so collecting species is just part of their hobbies. People like them needs and instrument like this because they can only spend less time into their aquarium. Just remember that there are different types of this and you must buy something that would really suit for you.

If you do not have one yet, before you buy, better consult to some other who have already own some first. Take note, this is something new for you so you have to study about it first before you venture into anything.

Reef octopus skimmers are useful tools made for the convenience of everyone. To start this hobby, you should better first begin with gold fishes in a bowl. This is for you to know if you are capable of doing this.




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