Archive for May, 2009
Picture of the Week – 6/1 – 6/7
Picture of a Vivid blue Tridacna maxima Clam From the Author’s Personal Aquarium Please Support Our Sponsors:
Bob Fenner Interview!!!
It’s my great pleasure to bring you yet another interview with one of the aquarium world’s most well known authors/hobbyist. Mr. Bob Fenner is our guest this time around. A little bit about our guest: Here is a full bio of Bob Fenner found on Wet Web Media. And a brief excerpt from that bio… [...]
ORA Platinum Picasso Clownfish
*Image Courtesy of ORA Ok, it seems that the exotic clownfish is growing yet again. ORA has introduced another variation called the Platinum Picasso, which is a much whiter version of their already popular Picasso clownfish. *Image Courtesy of ORA Here’s some info about them from ORA: The Platinum Percula is a nearly all white [...]
New Deltec Skimmers – New Pics and Update
Here’s a bit of news on the New Deltec Skimmers I wrote about in a previous article. These new Deltec skimmers have been spotted in operation. Aquarama had the TC3070 and SC2560 model skimmers up and running. Additionally, Deltec has released a little explanation as to how exactly their new bubble chambers work and why [...]
Eric Borneman Interview!!!
I had the great privilege of getting to meet world famous aquarist and researcher Eric Borneman last year when I asked him to put on a coral identification workshop at a local fish store that I had been working at. The workshop was right up my alley…it was full of scientific information that you just [...]
Picture of the Week – 5/25 – 5/31
Picture of a Orange-back Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus aurantidorsalis) from the Author’s Personal Aquarium
Picture of the Week – 5/18 – 5/24
Picture of Blue Clove Polyps from the 2009 Marine Aquarium and Reef Society of Houston (MARSH) Tank Tour
Barebottom Aquarium Setups, a Sandless Approach
About two weeks ago, I wrote the Sandbeds in Aquariums. In it I commented on barebottom aquariums, and this is the follow-up to that mention. For years, sand has played a major role in saltwater aquariums. Sand is beneficial in so many ways, especially aragonite-based sand. In a nutshell, sand provides calcium, alkalinity, and pH [...]
New Controllable Koralias
*Photo courtesy of MarineDepot A little while back I wrote an article about the Hydor Koralia powerheads. In that article, I wrote about the controllable Koralia setup which consisted of a controller (either a 2-way controller or a 4-way controller) and used Koralia models 1-4 and the Nano. Well, Hydor is expanding the controllable lineup [...]
Albino Clownfish
First Picasso clownfish, then Snowflakes, followed by Snowcassos….and now albinos?!?!? Hobbyists are finding that clownfish are very easy to breed. And with new techniques emerging on the proper care of newly hatched fish, raising these fry to adulthood is becoming more common. And with this, mutations are becoming more and more present. The newest one [...]
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