Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Ret Talbot, One Man Making a Huge Impact on Issues of the Aquarium Trade
A short time back, I was privileged enough to sit in on a wonderful MASNA Live discussion centered around the aquarium trade’s battles in Hawaii against anti-aquarium pro-tourism activists. In that talk, someone pointed out that we, the aquarium community, needed to do a better job of fighting the misinformation and moral arguments proposed by [...]
The AquaNerd Weekly Recap
In cased you missed anything from last week, here’s our weekly recap of the top stories from January 22nd through the 28th. The stories include our first article from the newest AquaNerd author, Daniel Leija, as well as some more discussion about the troubles the aquarium industry is facing in Hawaii. Setting Them Straight, Fixing [...]
Ecoxotic Looking to Hire an Account Representative
Want a job in the aquarium industry but don’t feel like your skills will allow you to compete against biology graduates? Do you have a passion for aquariums but don’t want to maintain them both at home and at work? If the answer to those two questions is yes, then you might want to consider [...]
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 [...]
The AquaNerd Weekly Recap
We’re adding a new feature to our website this week in the form of a weekly roundup of our most popular posts from the week before. We realize that a lot of new articles get published to this site every week, and sometimes these articles get overlooked as there’s just too much aquarium talk to [...]
ATI Adding Fiji White Sand to Their Lineup
ATI Aquaristik has recently released their new Fiji White Sand onto the European market, and it’s not the typical calcium carbonate substrate found filling most saltwater aquaria in the hobby these days. Instead, this high purity sand is composed of 99.6% pure calcium and magnesium, and is said to be one of the cleanest substrates [...]
Hybrid Blacktip Sharks Found in Australia
According to a recent AFP article, a team of scientists has found the first documented case of hybridization between two different species of sharks. This hybridization was discovered between two species of blacktip sharks, the Australian blacktip and the common blacktip, and the find has been backed up with genetic testing. The Australian species, as [...]
Fish Store Thievery Abundant Apparently
Over the last year or so, we’ve seen an increased amount of reports on people stealing from aquarium stores. Whether these increased illegal activities are a response to economic issues, hobbyists looking to exact revenge on a particular store, or people with intense aquatic addictions that just don’t know how to cope, the stores suffer [...]
20 Tons of Dead Herring Found on Norwegian Coastline
Massive die-offs in the animal world seem to be on the rise, or at the very least the media is doing a more thorough job of covering them. Regardless, over the past couple of years we’ve seen fish and birds dying off in great numbers in different parts of the world, and the latest massive [...]
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