by Leonard Ho | Oct 27, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
While we were surfing crowd-source websites, we ran across this fascinating but failed campaign to develop an aquarium centrifugal filter. Could we be spinning our way to cleaner aquariums? by Leonard Ho | Oct 24, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
Chalk another one up for researchers discovering what aquarists already know: A fish's behavior is not always predicated on basic survival tactics; Fish play for the sheer pleasure of the activity. If your fish is doing something inexplicably silly, don't just assume it's a derivative of survival behavior (e.g. feeding, mating, territorial, et al.). It's possible your fish is goofing around. by Leonard Ho | Oct 23, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
Flowerhorns are a man-made hybrid cichlid. To some people, they are beauties. To others, abominations. One thing is indisputable: they are aggressive, big-personality animals. Here's a video of a newly introduced flowerhorn being "initiated" by the resident beastly male. by Leonard Ho | Oct 21, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
This summer, we reported on three newly described Trimma gobies: T. pajama, T. meranyx, and T. zurae. Unfortunately, we only found photos of the first two at the time, and boy were those gobies spectacular. We now have photos of T.zurae. by Leonard Ho | Oct 20, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
Lego is the new duct tape. There's nothing you can't build out of them. Osamu Mizuno assembled this auto fish feeder out of mechanized Lego parts. Admittedly, the system is not practical and probably not all that reliable, but it's just plain ol' cool. by Leonard Ho | Oct 17, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
Matt Barnes has a problem. A good problem. The corals in his 90 gallon have grown so large they make his 90 gallon reef look tiny. A new 180 gallon system is now in the works.
