Saltcorner is a website that is dedicated to the hobby of marine aquarium keeping and is the creation of aquarium author Bob Goemans, who has written a column of the same name for many years.
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Hi Bob, I'm so happy to have come across your fabulous web site. Being a fellow desert dweller, it just shows that wherever you live (on the coast or in the badlands), you can still have a great marine aquarium. I have a question concerning silicates, which I was unaware until I read some of your comments in FAQ's, are detrimental to water quality. Several years ago I converted my 75 gallon undergravel filter setup to a "pseudo-plenum" system by capping off the lift tube holes at the filter plate and removing the silica sand, replacing it with a crushed coral/aragonite based substrate....read more.
Product Review – MoonBeam (Written in 2000 - product no longer available) Have you ever pictured in your mind swimming through a moonlit lagoon? Unfortunately many aquarists have not been fortunate enough to experience such an exhilarating experience. Nevertheless, I'm one of those that have been lucky enough to see shimmering moonlight on the underwater reefs and have always wanted to duplicate that vision of intense glitter lines in my reef aquariums. But that has not been possible until now as the intensity, and sometimes the spectrum of available lamps has been somewhat inadequat...read more.