Characteristics and Problems of some species of Zooplankton
In the first section dedicated to zooplankton – here – we covered all the organisms which can be grown in a home set-up and can be used to feed our LPS and SPS corals.
Continue ReadingIn the first section dedicated to zooplankton – here – we covered all the organisms which can be grown in a home set-up and can be used to feed our LPS and SPS corals.
Continue ReadingIn previous articles we covered topics like phytoplankton and its characteristics and role in marine food chains in tropical, sub-tropical and arctic environments.
Continue ReadingUnica Coral Zoo Concentrate is a zooplankton compound for the feed of corals in marine aquariums.
Continue Readingfrom left to right: Simocephalus vetulus, Tomopteris Eschscholtz, Hyperia Macrocephala, Meganyctiphanes norvegica, Gammarus locusta, Iracia Efferata, larve megalopa from Crustacea family, Asteria rubens Bippinaria, Brachionus quadridentatus, Calycopsis borchgevinki – Picture by Sanja Zamuda – Creative Commons rights
In the past article of this short series we illustrated two of the main features of plankton, size and classification (read here). We can now approach to how to supplement algae-based plankton (phytoplankton) or animal-based (zooplankton) into our tank.
We already covered in previous articles the benefits of phytoplankton and zooplankton supplement in a reef aquarium, and how to build them up in our system.
In this second section I will refer to the particulate components that are produced by the rising deep currents, this component we call Plankton.
The earth surface is 71% covered by salt water and as we all know, between the parallels above and below the equator up to the 23 °26 ‘we have the greatest presence of coral structures and all the closely related organisms.
The New Planctondose of Planctontech is a zooplankton dosing station for marine aquarium, aimed to the benthic organisms that eat it, to all the different types of corals and fishes that can be hosted in the aquarium.
Apprendiamo con una certa “apprensione” che il famoso prodotto Cyclop-Eeze potrebbe presto finire.