Archive for April, 2012
Aqueon’s Little Known Evolve Line of Pico Aquariums
Over the weekend while doing a little fish store hopping, we came across a new line of aquariums that Aqueon has managed to sneak by everyone. This new line, which has been out since January as far as we can tell, goes by the name Evolve and is powered by none other than LED lighting. [...]
Striated Anglerfish Dangling Its Lure on Video
Over the weekend, we got to spend a little more time at Fish Gallery’s Houston store, which means we also got more footage of some entertaining aquarium fish. The latest oddball fish to grace our video collection is the always fun Striated Anglerfish (Antennarius striatus). As can be seen in the clip above, the fish [...]
The AquaNerd Weekly Recap
Time to make friends with your alarm clock, because it’s Monday and that means you two will be spending a bit more time together. Fortunately, it also means a new weekly recap of our most popular aquarium articles. This week’s collection comes from the articles published during the week of April 22nd through the 28th. [...]
Picture of the Week, Sympodium Eating Nudibranch
For this week’s AquaNerd Picture of the Week, we wanted to stray away from the typical aquarium life and highlight a pest. Pictured above is a nudibranch hitch hiker that feeds on the rare and beautiful Sympodium coral. Like most nudis, this small slug blends right into the coral on which it feeds. This makes [...]
Tip of the Day – 4/30/2012
Setting up a new fish store in a small strip center or a different retail location where you will have plenty of neighbors? Just keep those neighbors in mind any time you do a water change or start pumping water into a particular container. The water won’t stop at the walls, choosing instead to travel [...]
I’ve Become a Victim of Fish Identity Fraud
Some of you might recall my discovery and subsequent acquisition of a certain rare dottyback species, the Rose Island Dottyback (Pseudoplesiops rosae), a couple of weeks ago. The fish was brought in by one of my favorite local fish stores, Fish Gallery (who sent us the beautiful image above), and I couldn’t resist taking it [...]
Tip of the Day – 4/29/2012
Do you have an aquarium at your workplace, where you only at on weekdays, and concerned about the tank’s inhabitants not getting enough light and food during those weekend days you are absent? Sure, you could get a timer for the lights and an automatic fish feeder, but you’ve heard horror stories of tank disasters starting from those [...]
Mauritius Flasher Wrasse in the Diver’s Den
Yesterday, wrasse lovers got themselves a little treat. LiveAquaria posted a stunning male Mauritius Flasher Wrasse (Paracheilinus piscilineatus) up for grabs in their ever popular Diver’s Den. This species only just made its splash onto the aquarium scene a little more than a year ago, first debuting in Japan and only barely making it to [...]
Kessil A350 Flexes Muscles on Marine Depot Video
Last week, Kessil finally unveiled their long awaited A350 and A350W “Tuna Blue” LED pendants, and inevitably the demonstrational videos of the lights have already started to surface. In the video above, courtesy of Marine Depot, we get to see how the two different channels (one 10,000K Sky Blue and one 20,000K Deep Ocean Blue) of [...]
Tip of the Day – 4/27/2012
You can throw as much calcium and buffer solution at your aquarium as you want, but without the proper amount of magnesium, those frequent dosing are just useless. Magnesium dosing, in its simplest explanation, helps calcifying corals take up the reef building materials. If magnesium isn’t maintained at appropriate levels, then corals will grow slowly [...]
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