by AquaNerd | Mar 21, 2020 | Industry
Read below to see the official statement that was just announced by Ecotech Marine. As of Thursday (March 19th) evening, the state of Pennsylvania requested the shutdown of all non-essential businesses in the ongoing effort to reduce the spread of Covid-19. In compliance with this mandate, EcoTech production, service, and shipping will be adversely affected. Office staff, including sales and customer service, are still operating remotely, but physical service and product shipments will be delayed. As the situation evolves, we will do our best to keep you updated with any new developments. Best wishes to everyone during this difficult period. -The EcoTech Team AquaNerd will post more information as it relates to other business shutdowns on our Facebook page, including this announcement from Neptune Systems. The by AquaNerd | Mar 21, 2020 | Supplements
President Trump announced in a press conference Thursday that chloroquine phosphate — a substance found in drugs used to treat malaria, severe arthritis and also used as a medication in aquariums, was just cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to test as a treatment for the coronavirus. That same substance, outside its pharmaceutical form, is used as a water treatment in aquariums to kill microscopic organisms that might harm fish and other aquatic animals. As you may imagine, some price gouging is going from some individuals. A product that normally cost about $9.99 is now selling for $420.00 or more and sparking fears that people may be ingesting the fish-tank additive in the hope it will combat COVID-19 illnesses. The study, conducted by Storyfull by AquaNerd | Mar 4, 2020 | Fish, Science
No oxygen? No worries for H. salminicola. Stephen D. Atkinson Researchers on Monday said they accidentally found the first animal species out of millions of know species that can survive its entirely without the presence of oxygen. Henneguya salminicola (H. salminicola) normally lives in the muscle tissue of its salmon host. The 10-celled creature has evolved to the point where it doesn’t breathe at all, according to a study published in the National Academy of Sciences. “Aerobic respiration was thought to be ubiquitous in animals, but now we confirmed that this is not the case,” said Dorothée Huchon, a zoologist at Israel’s Tel Aviv University in a press release. “Our discovery shows that evolution can go in strange directions. Aerobic respiration is a major source of by AquaNerd | Nov 9, 2019 | Corals, Reef, Science
The relationship between bacteria and Corals has recently become a hot topic on Reef2Reef as a result of a research paper recently published in the Nature journal. The study estimates that about 1/3 of all corals worldwide are infected with this newly discovered bacterium which researchers named,Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri. The bacterium can be found in a number of corals that we commonly keep in our aquariums including, Acropora, Goniopora, Montipora, Seriatopora and Stylophora species. Additionally, it can also be found in anemones. Researches also discovered the bacterium can be transmitted through coral eating parasitic snails and transported through seawater whereby it can potentially infect corals where tissue damage is present. Corals that are infected with Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri exhibit little to no growth. Researchers hypothesize the by AquaNerd | Apr 14, 2019 | Science
Life reconstruction of Sollasina cthulhu. (Credit: Elissa Martin, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History) The fossilized remains of a 430 million-year-old sea creature that had tentacles longer than its body have been found in Herefordshire, Britain. Given the name Sollasina cthulhu, due to its resemblance to the fictional Cthulhu sea beast thought of by American author H.P. Lovecraft, the creature was significantly smaller than the fictional monster, but perhaps just as scary to other sea creatures alive at the time. “Although the fossil is just 3 [centimers]wide, its many long tentacles would have made it appear quite monstrous to other small sea creatures alive at the time,” a press release describing the find reads. “It is thought that these tentacles, or ‘tube feet’, were used
