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Breeding Clownfish: Egg Hatching Problems
Breeding Clownfish: Egg Hatching Problems -A Saltwater Aquarium Blog Entry about some of the problems encountered while breeding clownfish species amphiprion ocellaris in an aquarium in my home, and some of the clownfish egg hatching problems encountered along the way. Breeding Clownfish: Spawning As mentioned in an earlier blog post, the pair has laid [...]
Clownfish Breeding
After several months with no known spawning attempts, the common clownfish pair (amphiprion ocellaris) in my display tank have gotten back into a regular breeding pattern. Since the beginning of September, they have spawned three times. Interestingly, they have designated a different corner of the aquarium as their breeding territory than the last time around. [...]
Reef Aquarium Lighting
Reef Aquarium Lighting One of the most common questions I hear from new saltwater aquarium hobbyists about reef aquarium lighting is, “How much light do I need? Is there a minimum wattage I should consider to keep coral in a reef tank?” I have heard aquarists offer up the advice that to keep [...]
Saltwater Aquarium Blog: Featured on Squidoo
Saltwater Aquarium Blog: Featured on Squidoo Saltwater Aquarium Blog now has a profile page on Squidoo.com It will be interesting to see how the page ranks relative to other pages there about the saltwater aquarium hobby. In the end, anything that helps aquarists find the information they are looking for online and be [...]
Reef Aquarium Lighting: Color Temperature Experiment Results
Reef Aquarium Lighting: Color Temperature Results This experiment in reef aquarium lighting was a visual, subjective exercise. Rather than ramble on describing the differences between the combinations, I will let the pictures do the talking. You can enlarge any of the pictures by clicking the thumbnail and viewing the full-sized image page. The intent of [...]
Reef Aquarium Lighting: An Experiment in Color Temperature
Reef Aquarium Lighting–An Introduction to the Experiment Over the next several blog posts, I’m going to explore the topic of reef aquarium lighting. For many reef aquarium hobbyists, lighting will be one of the most expensive pieces of equipment in their system. Lighting is expensive to purchase and to run on a daily basis. For [...]
Breeding Banggai Cardinalfish Article
In the article, I relay my experience with breeding these spectacular fish (the Banggai Cardinalfish) while on vacation. While it was a bit of dumb luck at the time, it turned out that the protocol I used to get my tank ready for vacation created a few time tested spawning triggers.
Rotifer Culturing at Home: Continous Cultures
Rotifer Culturing at Home: Continuous Culture Set-Up and Protocol Growing rotifers as a continuous culture is easy to do, but requires a small amount of work, almost every day. Unlike batch culturing, where the goal is to culture the most rotifers possible in sequential batches, the goal of continuous rotifer culturing is to create a [...]
How to Culture Rotifers: Batch Culturing Protocol
Culturing rotifers at home is fairly easy to do. Rotifers are a great food source for newly hatched fish larvae and for some filter feeding invertebrates. Ironically, the rotifers organism itself provides very little nutritional value to the animals that eat them. It is the content of their guts (the food they eat) that provides [...]
Earth Day 2010
Earth Day 2010 This year marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, a day set aside to observe, recognize and respect the importance of the natural world. Those of us who enjoy the saltwater aquarium hobby, by our very nature, may already be inclined to respect the ocean and her bounty, but there is still an [...]
