Many hobbyists dream of tropical locations in far distant places. They often want to recreate that sense of beauty with their aquariums. However, what they often fail to realize is that tropical beauty and thriving reef systems may not be all that far from home.…
We’ve all seen them. Those wonderful jellyfish displays at public aquariums. At least, I sure hope you’ve had the chance to see them. They are beautiful, graceful, soothing, and most of all super cool.…
Probiotics may have a strong effect in improving larval fish development. Some methods for their action may include appetite stimulation, improved nutrition, and simply competitive exclusion (summarized in Irianto & Austin 2002).…
With the increased usage in Probiotic foods for the aquaculture industry, there is a growing interest from hobbyists. If these foods are increasing the survivability of larval animals in open pens, why not in controlled aquariums?…
Even before I started college I was working with marine fishes. My interest in breeding and raising fish only grew with time. I think it was during my first year of college while working in an aquaculture lab that I discovered my passion wasn’t in the process of raising fishes, but it was in studying the real oddities and outliers of genetic differentiation.…
New uses of probiotics are making their way into the aquaculture industry. A probiotic is a term which literally means good organism. The concept is that you take a living organism (usually bacteria of some sort) and harvest the actions of that animal to benefit another.…
In Blundell Buttons Part I (http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2008/8/lines) I recounted the beginnings of the Blundell Button Project. This article describes how the project has gone, and what unforeseen adventures followed.…
It has been a decade since my work with the propagation and study of a drab looking unknown bore of a coral. From what started as an interesting idea is now a full blown fairytale known as the Blundell Buttons.…
Recently a new danger has emerged in the reef keeping hobby… flooding. Okay so flooding itself has been around since day 1 of the hobby, but a new wave of flood problems is entering the hobby.
New methods of high power skimming feature large volumes of air injected or drawn into water columns.…
