Modern clothing, whether in the form of Paris-runway couture or suburban mall fast fashion, is not known for being particularly sustainable. But rising sea temperatures and the scourge of plastics in our oceans are reaching catastrophic levels, threatening all life on our fragile planet – [...]
The Marine Aquarium Conference of North America (MACNA) is being held September 7-9 in Las Vegas this year, and it’s sure to be a blast. There are still plenty of tickets left, but don’t buy them just yet if you are a Local Fish Store (LFS) owner or manager – MASNA, the [...]
Here is the list you have been waiting for: The 50-Fish-Stores-Tour Stores. Every one of us on this tour deserves a round of applause. The Local Fish Store is disappearing at a rapid rate and those of us that are left are mostly good ones. We have to be good because people need a reason, now more [...]
Nausicaa, the public aquarium located in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, has just opened its much-anticipated expansion, which features the largest open-to-the-public tank in Europe, and the fourth largest in the world! Named for the heroine who cared for the shipwrecked Ulysses in Homer’s [...]
For this chapter of our new “Coral Road Trip” series, we visited the village of Lindenhurst on New York’s Long Island to attend the first annual Long Island Reef Association (LIRA) Frag Swap. The event, hosted in the Lindenhurst Middle School Auditorium, was first of this kind in that [...]
For this Reef A Palooza video, we recorded Jack Kent of Brightwell Aquatics. He presented his thoughts on the topic of frequent water changes and the modern reef keeping trend of no water changes and just adding in elements as needed. Check it out! Reef A Palooza Orlando Speaker [...]
By now, we all know about fertilizer runoff and our marine ecosystems: when it rains, fertilizer from the fields is washed into streams and rivers, where it eventually makes its way to the ocean. The fertilizer causes algae blooms, which releases harmful toxins and deprives all other living [...]
Continuing with our coverage of the Reef A Palooza Orlando show, here are some of the display tanks that were set up by the great companies in attendance. Check it out. Let me know who had the best set up and why. Enjoy! Reef A Palooza Orlando 2018 Coverage : Best Tanks of Reef A [...]