Tropic Eden™ Premium Grade Aragonite Reef Substrates are more than a very nice looking Substrate for your aquarium. It also enhances the biological processes in your aquarium.
A sand bed using Tropic Eden™ 's Premium Grade Aragonite Reef Substrates greatly helps achieve a natural biological balance in aquariums because the substrate materials. In a self-regulated manner continuously deliver a complete array of trace elements and buffers in a naturally correct proportion. Replenishing any loss over time as well as diminishing any pH fluctuation which is highly unfavorable to fishes, corals and all other aquarium inhabitants. Tropic Eden™ Premium Grade Aragonite Reef Substrates also provide a natural habitat in sand bed which largely enhances nitrification and denitrification facilitated by benthic bacteria and other sand bed microbes.
The natural coral reefs are profoundly important to the earth. They have been existing in the ocean for thousands of years. In comparison, they are the tropical rainforest in the ocean because they are the home and the major food factory for countless number of marine organisms, including mammals, fishes, invertebrates, crustaceans, corals, free-swimming planktons and many filter feeders.
In a coral reef ecosystem an important foundation is a very thick layer of substrates composed of various calcareous materials. Possibly a few hundreds meters in depth which underline all rocks structures and anything living above. The super thick sand bed. in fact. may be divided into distinctive layers distinguished by sand grains of different forms, shapes, sizes and composition. The separation of shoals of unique sand forms are the result of the natural forces like currents. winds and the characteristics of the organisms that predominate in the area.
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