The Living Foundation: Rethinking Substrates in the Reef Aquarium, While Rediscovering Myself…

Let’s settle into my salty side today. Substrate is sort of out of favor with the reef aquarium hobby, for reasons which are remarkably similar to some of the ones we encounter in the botanical method aquarium world. We’llthe role which subsystems play in both natural reefs and home aquariums… a discussion about why we should reconsider a substrate. This is particularly intersting to botanical method aquarium geeks, because it covers some of the same ideas we play with in our freshwater work!