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    Advanced Aquarist October Issue: Phosphorus, Regenerating GFO and Metasepia pfefferi

    Advanced Aquarist is out with their latest issue, offering some insight into phosphate and one cool Ceph! Also known as PO4, Phosphate it is the bane of Acropora keepers and algae haters. It’s also a small slice of the larger phosphorus world. In this issue Dana Riddle offers some unique insight into the types of [...]

    October 15, 2010
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    Back from The 2010 Backer Trade Show

    This past weekend was the H.H. Backer Tradeshow in Rosemont, just outside of Chicago. If you have not heard of it, don’t fret; the show is large in the pet industry, but relatively small for the aquatics realm. Being a true tradeshow (and not open to the public) the feel of Backer is much different than [...]

    October 11, 2010
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    Seahorses Are Not the Monogamous Darlings You Think They Are

    Seahorses are often portrayed by the mainstream media as monogamous lovers for life. That is, if you kill or collected a single specimen that has formed a ‘mated pair’, the surviving half will live in solitude and eventually die out of despair. This is thought to have originated from a 90s paper entitled Faithful pair bonds in [...]

    October 5, 2010
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    Lacey Liopropoma Larva

    Believe it or not, this drawing is of a complete 18.5mm Liopropoma sp. larva collected in the Gulf of California. It was the first complete Liopropoma larva found in the Eastern Pacific and documented in a research paper from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, México. Researchers suspect this larval fish is L. fasciatum, but [...]

    October 5, 2010
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    House of Fins’ 53rd SPLASH Event Had the Goods

    House of Fins hosted their 53rd Anniversary Splash event this weekend, with ample exotic livestock and a terrific line up speakers including marine pro Scott Michael. There were plenty of show stoppers in the rare fish category. Juvenile Wrought Iron Butterflyfish were specially brought in for the event (as we hinted at…), as was the [...]

    October 3, 2010
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    Thieves Strike Waikiki Aquarium

    This past weekend thieve broke in and stole 15 Pacific Threadfins (Polydactylus sexfilis) from the Waikiki Aquarium. Commonly known as Moi on the Island, officials at the aquarium estimate the loss to be $1,500 USD. It seems rather clear these were not going to another aquarium: “It looks like they threw the moi out, they [...]

    September 29, 2010
    | eric michael | 5 Comments