Authors Note – Between the time of writing this article and the publication date, I discovered that a friend of mine was also working with this product. Jake Adams and I are now working together to co-author a piece showing some of advanced VorTech capabilities.…
Last month I discussed the differing types of water flow. The idea there was to get people thinking about what type of flow they want in their aquarium. This month I’m going to present some very basic information.…
Hello and welcome to the Water Flow series. This series of articles will be my best attempt to take real world scientific information, and put that into helpful hobbyists terms. That isn’t to say that the scientific information isn’t hobbyist friendly, only to say that I receive emails and suggestions for topics that often address water flow issues.…
What is today is a reflection of what was yesterday.
If you spend enough time in this hobby you are sure to have several of those conversations. The conversations that explore the greater diversity of fishes and their evolutionary history.…
During the Marine Ornamentals conference of 2004 I presented a lecture… more like a challenge… to the attendees to “bridge the gap” as I say. The basic concept of my lecture was to draw attention to the varying aquarium hobby constituents and their separation.…
The future of marine ornamental aquaculture is headed towards providing captive raised specimens to supply the hobby. But wait, what if we never get there? Hmmm, wait again, what if we are already there?…
Welcome to the Ideas to Items column. This new column will feature the construction of simple items that may be of interest to the hobbyist. If you like putting things together then you’ll like this new series.…
Marine invertebrates serve an important role in the captive reef and in therefore in the marine ornamental industry. During the late 1990’s an appreciation and desire for invertebrates flourished in the aquarium trade.…
You probably stopped building sand castles a few trips ago– Amie Hancey (8/24/06)
This article is a follow up to what became two very popular articles. I first wrote about tide pool life (Blundell 2006a) and then specifically about the coastal areas of Western United States (Blundell 2006b).…
Three months ago I began a new project to test old hydrometers. The purpose of the test was to compare several old, very used, hydrometers with other “more accurate” devices. Currently the marine aquarium hobby uses refractometers as the gold standard for measuring salinity/specific gravity.…