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Demystifying Nanobubbles: It’s Not Just About Oxygen Transfer

Demystifying Nanobubbles: It’s Not Just About O...

Gareth Barber

Grab your favourite drink—whether it’s a cuppa tea with a bikkie, a coffee, a Red Bull, a beer, or (heaven help you) a whiskey after a rough day—and let’s talk...

Demystifying Nanobubbles: It’s Not Just About O...

Gareth Barber

Grab your favourite drink—whether it’s a cuppa tea with a bikkie, a coffee, a Red Bull, a beer, or (heaven help you) a whiskey after a rough day—and let’s talk...

OC-K vs Traditional VSV — The Complete Nutrient Comparison

OC-K vs Traditional VSV — The Complete Nutrient...

Gareth Barber

Traditional VSV dosing gives your bacteria a quick carbon hit and nothing else. OC-K matches the carbon input while adding 20–30mg of amino acids, organic nitrogen, vitamins, phosphorus, potassium, calcium,...

OC-K vs Traditional VSV — The Complete Nutrient...

Gareth Barber

Traditional VSV dosing gives your bacteria a quick carbon hit and nothing else. OC-K matches the carbon input while adding 20–30mg of amino acids, organic nitrogen, vitamins, phosphorus, potassium, calcium,...

Filtration & Life Support Systems (LSS): Clean Your Bloody Filters!

Filtration & Life Support Systems (LSS): Clean ...

Gareth Barber

Let’s get one thing straight: You don’t want your fish and corals swimming in filth. You wouldn’t bathe in your own swamp water, so why should your aquatic system? And it’s...

Filtration & Life Support Systems (LSS): Clean ...

Gareth Barber

Let’s get one thing straight: You don’t want your fish and corals swimming in filth. You wouldn’t bathe in your own swamp water, so why should your aquatic system? And it’s...

Probiotics, Organic Carbon, and Getting the Belt: A Beginner’s Guide to Managing Aquatic Systems

Probiotics, Organic Carbon, and Getting the Bel...

Gareth Barber

Before you even think about dosing probiotics or organic carbon, you need to understand how your system actually works. Oxygenation, filtration, substrate management—skip the homework and things go sideways fast....

Probiotics, Organic Carbon, and Getting the Bel...

Gareth Barber

Before you even think about dosing probiotics or organic carbon, you need to understand how your system actually works. Oxygenation, filtration, substrate management—skip the homework and things go sideways fast....

Hydrogen Peroxide and Sodium Percarbonate - Use and dosing

Hydrogen Peroxide and Sodium Percarbonate - Use...

Gareth Barber

Hey, how ya goin?   Good thanks. I constantly get asked to help with dose rates for hydrogen peroxide and sodium percarbonate, calculating dose rates for them, how to dose...

Hydrogen Peroxide and Sodium Percarbonate - Use...

Gareth Barber

Hey, how ya goin?   Good thanks. I constantly get asked to help with dose rates for hydrogen peroxide and sodium percarbonate, calculating dose rates for them, how to dose...

UV Sterilisers, Sizing and application rates

UV Sterilisers, Sizing and application rates

Gareth Barber

There is plenty of information out there on dose for various organisms for effective sizing and treatment of pathogen. I have a list of over 100 myself. Note, before we...

UV Sterilisers, Sizing and application rates

Gareth Barber

There is plenty of information out there on dose for various organisms for effective sizing and treatment of pathogen. I have a list of over 100 myself. Note, before we...