Archive for the ‘Aquarium Videos’ Category
Anti-Aquarium Activist Releases Yellow Tangs Back Into Ocean
Buried at the bottom of a recent anti-aquarium themed online article in the San Francisco Gate covering the recent troubles Petco has been experiencing in Hawaii, a somewhat lengthy video shows college professor Dr. Gail Grabowsky releasing five yellow tangs into the waters off a beach in Waikiki. Prior to the release, Dr. Grabowsky speaks [...]
Hanna Instruments Phosphate Checker Video Demo
Over the Christmas holidays, a thoughtful family member decided to give me a Phosphate Checker from Hanna Instruments. And seeing as how we’re all giddy for new aquarium equipment, we couldn’t pass up doing a product review and demonstration video. For a step-by-step walkthrough for using the Phosphate Checker, along with some observations on its [...]
Our First Rare Fish Spotting of the New Year
The year is still so young, but we’ve already got a rare fish sighting to report. Over the past couple of months, we’ve seen the Interruptus Angelfish (Centropyge interrupta) show up in only a couple of places. The first was a video clip from Blue Harbor in November. Then LiveAquaria posted a couple of these [...]
Tridacna Clams Spawning in Home Reef Tank
Tridacna clams are some of the most interesting and colorful invertebrates we could put in our aquariums. They have a brightly colored and wildly patterend mantle, can retract into their shells when startled, and can even take up nitrate and free-floating particles when they are filter feeding. Another trick they can do is mass spawn [...]
ORA Tiger Goby (Elacatinus macrodon) Great for Pico Aquariums
Seeing as how I’ve been mulling over the idea of starting up one (or several) small aquariums to spruce up the house and office, I’ve been really giving a lot of thought as to what the potential livestock for the tanks would be and keeping en eye our for nano-friendly fish during my random fish [...]
Examining Snails Grazing on Aquarium Glass
In this hobby, it’s so easy to get wrapped up in rare fish and corals, high end equipment, and unusual husbandry techniques that the simpler things often go overlooked. Saltwater snails, which are the workhorses of our aquariums, don’t often get their fare share of the spotlight. It’s understandable that hobbyists don’t focus on their [...]
The Rubik’s Cube, So Easy a Mantis Shrimp Can Do It
Here’s an older video that our friends at Fish Gallery dug up and posted on their Facebook page. It’s a clip showing a stomatapod crustacean, otherwise known as a mantis shrimp, actually solving a Rubik’s Cube. Well, solving of the puzzle is implied with some extensive editing, but we’ll just say for the sake of [...]
The Bashsea PM-1 Media Reactor Tumbles the Pellets
As some may recall, we received a PM-1 bio-pellet reactor from Bashsea last week, and over the weekend we got to spend a great deal of time with it. We disassembled the reactor and tossed in a box of NP-Active Pearls from DrTim’s Aquatics. The lid to the reactor is held in place with thumbscrews [...]
EcoTech Marine Supports the Coral Restoration Foundation
Here’s a little distraction from your Sunday night football games. Coral restoration and conservation is a huge passion of ours, and should be of every saltwater aquarium keeper, so it should come as no surprise that we’re plugging the Coral Restoration Foundation (CRF). In the video above, the guys at EcoTech Marine are also joining [...]
Rare Japanese Bodianus masudai Hogfish Seen at Blue Harbor
Blue Harbor has just released a little footage of a stunning Japanese Masudai hogfish (Bodianus masudai), allowing us to catch a glimpse of this rare fish for the first time in a long time. Now, you might be asking yourself what’s so rare about this peppermint hogfish? And that’s a pretty reasonable question since Indonesian [...]
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