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All About UV: Why You're Missing the Best-Kept Secret of Aquarium UpKeep
Most of you have encountered that subtle green ‘haze’ in your aquarium at some point in your aquarium hobby. For beginners that aren’t comfortable with maintaining stable water conditions, this is one of the most frustrating obstacles to a beautiful tank. That ‘green haze’ is actually suspended algae in your water column. It’s most commonly… […]
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Blue Planet Aquarium Newsletter: May
Hi Everyone, and welcome to the Blue Planet Aquarium May newsletter! The past month has been super-busy for us, since spring time turns out to be the perfect time for installing a new aquarium, updating your current aquarium, or diving into some maintenance for ensured aquarium longevity (get it? “diving”? eh? Eh?). We currently have… […]
Top 10: Chicagoland Fish Stories
A conversation this past weekend at a friend’s home who lives just off the south branch of the Chicago River led to startling, earth-shattering, and terrifyingly mundane aquatic Chicago trivia information—about alligators in the river. Naturally, when the topic somehow came up, the small group featuring an IT mastermind, an architect, and an engineer, turned… […]
Product Spotlight: Got Algae?
In our second product spotlight this month, we wanted to take a look at a product exclusively sold by Blue Planet: Harbor Labs “Algae Eraser”. Algae Eraser is an oxidizing agent which destroys algae nutrients in the aquarium. This product does a great job of keeping tanks cleaner between our services. You can think… […]
Product Spotlight: Media Reactor and Bio Pellets
You might be saying, “Where have you been Jon, these have been on the market for a couple years now”. It’s true, we oftentimes see new tech come on the scene and say “NEVER! That can’t work!” Well, and sometimes we are wrong, old dogs can learn new tricks, a tiger can change its… […]
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Featured Installation: Custom Aquarium with Wave Box
This month’s featured installation showcases a truly custom concept, something called a wave box. I’ve written articles before about the merit and benefit of recreating a true wave water flow in the aquarium. This recreates a natural environment rather than the standard aquarium’s water flow, which is decidedly un-oceanic. The rocking of water back and… […]
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Featured Installation: “Room Divider” Aquarium
After writing the “15 Favorite Room Divider Aquariums” post, we realized that a great client, great guy, and great aquarium was left out. Instead of having his tank not make the cut, let’s turn the spotlight on it instead, in this month’s Featured Installation. Brent called us a few years ago and talked about how… […]
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Our 15 Favorite “Room Divider” Aquariums
We’ve been listening to customer feedback and writing more Top 10 aquarium posts, which you all seem to love. However, this month, we thought it would be fun to write a Top List tied to Blue Planet’s 15 year history. “Room divider” style aquariums have a special place in customers’ hearts, because of the amazing… […]
Jon’s Corner: LED UV Sterilizers
As seen in our guest report from HomeAquaria.com, there is an incredible new desktop aquarium kit on the scene, that utilizes some high tech gear in a small package, and that I wanted to take some time to discuss. The amazing thing about this new aquarium is that is has a new type of technology… […]
The EcoQube Aquaponic Desktop Aquarium
We were pretty impressed when we read about the EcoQube small-footprint desktop aquarium on HomeAquaria.com. For those who want an affordable, low-maintenance foray into aquarium ownership, the EcoQube offers a great solution. But the EcoQube isn’t just an aquarium. The makers have taken the next step in technology and added an aquaponics system to the… […]