The marine aquarium by BallingMania
Experience, knowledge and passion for the reef aquarium, with a special focus on the Balling method for keeping hard corals.
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Get to know who lives in your tank
Family, origin, compatibility and care difficulty, species by species.
Acanthurus achilles
Acanthurus lineatus
Acanthurus pyroferus
Actaeodes tomentosus
Amphiprion ocellaris
Apolemichthys xanthopunctatus
Balistoides conspicillum
Calloplesiops altivelis
Centropyge bispinosus
Chelinodura varians
Chiloscyllium punctatum
Chromis viridis
Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus
Copepodi
Cromileptes altivelis
Dascyllus melanurus
The Balling method in brief
A system to replace and keep stable the triad (KH, calcium and magnesium) that corals use up every day.
The values recommended in our guide
Three containers, one balanced tank
- 1The three containers one solution for KH, one for calcium, one for magnesium
- 2The dosing pumps they dose at different times; not essential, but they make it easier
- 3The corals they use up the triad: you replace what is missing
Latest articles
Chemistry and biomineralisation
KH, calcium and magnesium are not just numbers to keep stable: they are the bricks, the cement and the additive on…
Light. Why your eye is a liar
If you run the whites at 100% to see your Acropora better, you are looking at the tank through the eyes of a land…
Metabolism. The coral is a holobiont
Acropora are not just light-dependent: they are predators, and they are not even a single individual. Chapter 5: the…
Snow in the tank: four clarifiers compared
ATI Easyvital, KZ Coral Snow, Modern Reef BIOReef-Snow and Resolve look alike, but they work in different ways:…
June 2025
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