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Articles tagged: bacteria

• Basics

  Live rock — the basics

  What live rock is and why it is the foundation of biological filtration in a reef aquarium: bacterial surface area and the nitrogen cycle, types of rock, the life that comes with it, and handling and curing.

• Practice

  The microbiome as the tank's foundation

  What the microbiome is, what it does, how DOC and oxygen drive microbial balance — and why the hobbyist's daily choices affect it more than most realise.