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Does Your Aquarium Have Enough Surface Agitation?

By Luke • Jun 29th, 2009 • Category: Water Quality

You may notice from time to time that the surface of your aquarium water builds up an oily-looking film. This is common. This is especially common in aquariums with minimal surface agitation. Read on to learn what you need to do to create better surface agitation.



$1M Worth of Live Rock Stolen

By Luke • Jun 29th, 2009 • Category: Blogs and Ramblings, In The News

Wow. This is pretty amazing. Tons and tons of live rock stolen. Maybe it was the aliens and their spaceships hauling this stuff away. Hopefully the bandits are caught.



Take a shower while lying on a fish tank

By Luke • May 5th, 2009 • Category: Blogs and Ramblings

Showering standing up is OK, I guess, if you’re poor. But if you’re rich, you should be bathing in a way that reflects how much money you have. Such as with the HydroGlass.



I Need to Flip Over My Crown Snails a Lot

By Luke • Apr 30th, 2009 • Category: Fish and Invertebrate

The only bad thing that I can think about in regards to these snails is that I have to flip them over a lot. It’s similar to how a turtle can get flipped on it’s back, needing help to get flipped back over and be on it’s feet again. I frequently joke with my girlfriend about how I needed to “flip over one of the crown snails again”… seems like it happens about once every couple of days.



Top Crown Snails: Awesome Algae Eaters

By Luke • Apr 6th, 2009 • Category: Fish and Invertebrate

Top Crown Snails eat pretty much everything off of the glass of my 75 gallon saltwater aquarium. It’s actually almost unbelievable to me how much stuff these snails eat. I’ve never had any other type of snail, large or small, with such a voracious appetite.



Rough Day – Bull Shark Killed a Lemon Shark at an Aquarium in China

By Luke • Mar 5th, 2009 • Category: Blogs and Ramblings, In The News

I always seem to run across shark stories. I guess they are the most action packed stories for a reason. Sharks! I guess there’s not a whole lot of “Yellow Tang” fights that get the attention of the news media.

I guess these two shared an aquarium for quite a while too, so they weren’t just thrown at each other recently.