Archive for January, 2012
Stunning Royal Gramma Dejongi Hybrid Seen on Video
We first spied the stunning Cuban Gramma dejongi basslet almost two full years ago. And even though we’ve seen plenty of images and videos of these amazing and virtually unattainable fish since then, we still can’t seem to get enough. Unfortunately for our addiction, the story doesn’t stop with just this species, as it gets [...]
Tip of the Day – 1/29/2012
Want a quick and easy way to maintain calcium levels in your aquarium? Try adding a canister filled with aragonite-based media to your RO/DI filter. The water will pick up a little bit of calcium as it passes through the media, which will therefore also add calcium to the aquarium every time you top-off water [...]
Fishing Free-for-All Decimates Wild Fish Populations
If any activists want to point their fingers at a particular fishery for causing vast amounts of nearly irreparable damage, they need to look no further than the commercial fishing industry. Case in point, a recent story in iWatch News describes the massive decline of the jack mackeral due to severe commercial overfishing off the [...]
Tip of the Day – 1/27/2012
If you’re like most aquarium hobbyists, you probably have sump below your reef tank that houses an oversized protein skimmer and possibly a populated refugium. The refugium is full of macroalgae that requires some form of illumination to grow. This lighting serves its purpose well, and the macroalgae is growing beautifully, but that’s not the [...]
Amazing Room Divider Aquarium Install from ADG
While we don’t typically chat about freshwater systems, this new installation from the crew at Aquarium Design Group is a build that we just had to share. The setup is a room divider, separating what appears to be a closed in porch area and a living room area. These types of aquariums aren’t uncommon in [...]
The New ASM Cone Skimmers Now Available to the Masses
During the most recent MACNA, we stumbled across a brand new protein skimmer from All Seas Marine, a company whose products have essentially remain unchanged for at least a decade or more, and ritefully so. The ASM G skimmers have always been the go-to budget option for aquarium keepers. They worked fairly well, cost fractions of what other [...]
Tip of the Day – 1/26/2012
Have a frag tank but not sure if you want to tie it in with your display aquarium or run it as a completely separate system? Well, obviously there are advantages and disadvantages to both. If you plumb the frag tank into your main system, you will add volume to the overall setup and won’t [...]
Unique Orange Peel Angelfish from Pacific Island Aquatics
We can never get enough of those oddball fish that seem to permeate our hobby on an increasingly regular basis, and the latest unique gem comes to us from Kevin at Pacific Island Aquatics. The particular individual that caught our eye this time around is an orange colored lemonpeel angelfish (Centropyge flavissima var.) taken from somewhere in the [...]
Setting Them Straight, Fixing Bad Advice from Bad Fish Stores
The following is the first contribution from our most recent addition to the AquaNerd team, local fish store manager Daniel Leija. Daniel has been in charge of the saltwater section at a local store for as long as I can remember, and we’re excited to have him on board. Being a long-time employee at a [...]
Reef Threads Podcasts Are Well Worth the Listen
Being an extremely busy individual, I don’t have a lot of time to do too many things outside of my normal routine. With my day job zapping most of my time and energy and the AquaNerd Blog consuming the rest, I have little time for either my family or my aquariums, let alone any new time [...]
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