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Posts Tagged ‘aquarium’

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.



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.



Shark Jumps From Aquarium to Pool

By Luke • Dec 23rd, 2008 • Category: Blogs and Ramblings, In The News

I ran across an interesting story today about a shark jumping from an aquarium to a pool. Interesting. Why would the pool be so close to an aquarium with a shark in it? That is interesting in its own right.



Normal People Just Have Aquariums

By Luke • Nov 24th, 2008 • Category: Blogs and Ramblings

Are you a geek? Chances are, if you are interested in fish tanks and/or use the internet. There are pretty good odds of one or both of those being the case if you are reading this web site, hehe.



An Open Bottom Marine Fish Tank

By Luke • Nov 2nd, 2008 • Category: Videos

This could be somewhat of a followup to another post about about an open bottom fish tank.
This one is a marine tank of the open bottom variety. The center column is quite tall and there are waterfalls at the top. Pretty neat.
I still don’t think I’d have the guts to try to operate an open [...]