Archive for August, 2010
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Do you have a passion for the saltwater aquarium hobby and love to write? The AquaNerd Blog is in search of more writers. We are seeking reef aquarium enthusiasts who are active in their aquarium communities and want to regularly share their experiences and ideas with the world. If you are an aspiring writer, this [...]
Have Your Aquarium Products Featured on the AquaNerd Blog
Do you have a new and exciting product that you want to share with the aquarium community? Or do you have a product that’s been around for a while but just needs more exposure? Well, let us feature it for you here, on the AquaNerd Blog. Send us your aquarium equipment, let us test it [...]
The New ORA Acropora Solitaryensis
Just in time for MACNA, ORA has announced that they will be releasing a brand new coral…the ORA Acropora solitaryensis. This coral has apparently taken several years to develop before ORA was ready to take it public. A. solitaryensis is a notoriously slow grower, but it more than makes up for that with its beauty. [...]
Tip of the Day – 8/31/2010
You don’t have to have a $1000 camera to take good pictures. Even some cell phone cameras can take quality pictures. All you need to do is have patience and play with the various settings on your camera. Point-and-shoot cameras, especially newer models, have a lot of features that can lead to great pictures. They [...]
EcoTech Marine to Unveil New Product at MACNA
In their August newsletter, EcoTech Marine announced that they will be introducing a new product at MACNA this year. There is a flurry of speculation as to what this “new product” will be, but our guess is a larger model VorTech pump. With the MP10 holding down the nano aquariums, the MP20 being discontinued, and [...]
Tip of the Day – 8/30/2010
Don’t want to shell out the dough for pelletized carbon to keep your bacteria populations elevated? An alternative thos this media is rice. That’s right, regular old rice. The rice, like the bio pellet media, will slowly build up a film on its surface and release carbon into your aquarium to feed bacteria. Be careful [...]
Picture of the Week – 8/30 – 9/5
This week’s Picture of the Week is a two part entry… Photograph taken with a Canon XSi with the stock EF-S 18-55mm lens Photograph taken with Canon XSi with 100mm f/2.8L Macro lens. This week’s entry is of a Radioactive Dragon Eye Zoanthid frag that I picked up from a local fish store. The first [...]
Who is Going to MACNA?
Obviously the big thing on everyone’s mind right now is the Marine Aquarium Conference of North America, otherwise known as MACNA. This year’s conference, just like all those held in the past, is going to be a huge ordeal. MACNA 2010 will be in Orlando and is being hosted by ORCA, the Orlando Reef Caretakers [...]
Tip of the Day – 8/29/2010
Saturday and Sunday mornings are a great time to perform aquarium maintenance, more specifically water changes. The kids are usually still asleep because they stayed up really late the night before and it’s usually pretty quite so you can focus on the task at hand. Mix up a batch of fresh saltwater the days before [...]
DSPS From Thailand Latest Video
The enormous DSPS tank from Thailand has got to be one of the most infamous tanks in the aquarium world, and the videos keep rolling out. The latest video, uploaded to YouTube only yesterday, shows just how much this gorgeous reef has matured. The colonies are getting massive and you can see less and less [...]
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