Saltcorner
By Bob Goemans

What is Saltcorner?

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.

Whether you're looking for information about animals and plants/algae; for informative articles by noted aquarium authors; for product or book reviews; for photo galleries of impressive home aquariums; for information about Bob's books; or troubleshooting/advice correspondence on a wide range of topics, there's a lot of information here. And it's all free to you thanks to the generous support of our website sponsors who keep the website's lights turned on.

Use the tabs above to navigate to different parts of the website, or click on any link that catches your eye. I hope you find the site useful and informative!

Photo Gallery Spotlight


See more in John Clipperton's
130 litre Reef photo gallery.

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Q&A Letter Spotlight

Ray Mills (Albuquerque, NM) writes to Bob about:
Diatoms & Silicates

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.

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Review Spotlight

Product Review of MoonBeam

Manufactured by BrightLights Technologies LLC and Clarity Plus Inc.

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.

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