Many people think of members of the grouper family as a tasty main course, rather than a brilliant adornment to the coral reef community. However, reef crests throughout the Pacific to the Indian Oceans and even the Red Sea, are…
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Sim Aquarium Widget from Opera.com
SimAquarium is an aquarium simulation game – you can buy and sell fish, aquarium sceneries (plants, rocks etc), lighting and other things for your aquarium! You can feed your fish, play with them and do much more. To earn money…
Do you have a backup plan for your saltwater aquarium?
It’s the holiday weekend, and while most of you are enjoying your holiday weekend have you thought about a backup plan for your saltwater aquarium? I mean for example that if you go on vacation who is going to watch…
Make your life easier: Buy an Aquarium Controller.
As computer technology advances, the technology for marine aquarium controllers has also advanced. In the beginning, these controllers could only measure pH and turn on a couple of lights or powerheads. Now it is possible to get monitors that not…
With a Little Help from Their Friends…
The effects of climate change on the world’s oceans have not been kind to coral reefs. Facing a range of threats from multiple fronts, including a diverse array of predators, pathogens and people and, now, the looming specter of rising…
New Sea Anemone found in belly of whale
A new species of sea anemone has been found in the carcass of a whale that sunk to the ocean floor off the coast of Monterey, California, marking the first discovery of one of these filter-feeding marine animals living in…
Mother beat shark with camera
A WOMAN who was attacked by a shark on a West Australian reef says all she could think of was beating it off before it could savage her teenage son wading alongside or the three-year-old on her hip. Mother-of-five Becky…
Heat can be a problem in Marine Aquariums
One key to having success in the marine aquarium hobby is stability within the aquarium, including a stable temperature. There are many factors that can cause temperature changes in the tank and just as many ways to help control these.…
Controlling Problem Algae in the Reef Aquarium
Mike Paletta is the author of The New Marine Aquarium and Ultimate Marine Aquariums. He has been in the hobby for over 15 years and has written numerous articles for Aquarium Fish Magazine, Tropical Fish Hobbyist and Aquarium Frontiers. After…
Substrates in Aquariums–Plenums, DSBs & Barebottom Aquaria
There is more then one way to skin a cat. In the reef keeping hobby this adage is axiomatic. Given that every single tank is slightly different from any other in methodology used, in how each develops biologically, chemically, and…
