reef tank
Coral habitat enclosure
A reef tank is an aquarium designed to house live coral and other marine organisms found on coral reefs.
Unlike fish-only saltwater tanks, reef tanks require precise water chemistry, specialized lighting, and careful maintenance to keep corals alive and growing: Setting up a reef tank is expensive, but the results are stunning.
The hobby demands significant investment in equipment and knowledge.
- coralMarine skeletal formation
- saltwaterOcean water, chemically speaking
- aquariumTank for keeping fish
- anemoneTentacled polyp or bloom
- clownfishStriped reef fish, anemone symbiont
filtration · powerhead · LED lighting · polyps · calcium · alkalinity · sump · water change · fragging · tang · invertebrates · wave maker · dosing · quarantine · salinity · flow
- natural historynatural history, natural history museum, naturalist, naturalists, natural philosophers
- aquariumdolphin, penguin, ray, octopus, shark
- aquariumsaquarium, aquariums, touch pools, tide pools, exhibits
- enclosurescage, pen, box, enclosure, case
- aquarium environmentwater filter, filtration, heater, lighting, aquatic plants
- Reef Aquariumscorals, saltwater, salinity, clownfish, anemones
reef tankcoral reef
Calcium carbonate marine ecosystem
ocean · open ocean · Great Barrier Reef · marine ecosystem · sea
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