Mishap Mondays are all about learning from my expensive mistakes so you don’t have to. Today, we look at the time I bought the “perfect” piece of live rock, quarantined it for months, and still ended up fighting a year long battle against bubble algae, asterina stars, and aiptasia.
This isn’t a how-to guide; it’s a cautionary tale. From hair-algae hellscapes to urchins wearing slimy green wigs, I share the disastrous mistakes I made when starting my budget reef tank so you don’t have to repeat them.
In this Mishap Mondays article, we are going to be talking about That Time Phantom Flow Made My Marine Aquarium a Complete Mess.
In this Mishap Monday’s article, I talk about the time a friend of mine continually topped up his marine aquarium evaporation with saltwater.
In this article, I am going to tell you the story of that time I neglected testing and my nitrates shot through the roof for an absolutely crazy reason.
In this article, I tell the story of that time my dry rock stalled my marine aquarium cycle and tell you how you can avoid doing the same thing.
In this section dedicated to the mistakes I have made in marine fishkeeping. We talk about a time when my hang on back protein skimmer overflowed in a big way.
