Like the Advanced Aquarist online magazine? Now you can read it in the bath
The Advanced Aquarist online edition is beautiful enough, so goodness knows how beautiful the print book must be.
Well, readers based in America can find out, as the first of two planned 2008 editions just went on sale on Amazon.com
A new study has found, perhaps not surprisingly, that poverty is one of the biggest contributors to the degradation of coral reefs, especially over-fishing.
Heavy feeders like these Nymphea will enjoy a rich substrate (Photo: Clay Mask)
Want a beautiful planted aquarium but don’t know where to start? You could do a lot worse than follow the excellent guide to planted aquariums that Guitarfish, one of my favourite fishkeeping blogs, is running over on his site.
This maxima clam hybrid is looking really cross...
All you U.S. clam-lovers should head over to reefbuilders pronto, where they’re highlighting what they claim is a new clam hybrid.
It's hard to believe this mature captive reef is less than four years old
Quick note to say the new issue of the online Reefkeeping magazine is out. And as always, the tank of the month is to die for.
In some ways it’s yet another in-wall, fish-room-behind-the-tank labour of love that tends to typify Reefkeeping’s Tank of the Month picks, but it has some unusual elements, especially the heavy emphasis on ceramic rockwork early on.
The Debelius pygmy seahorse is less than one-inch tall
A flurry of new seahorse discoveries has culminated in this beautiful photo from National Geographic of the Debelius pygmy seahorse.
Like the other new discoveries, the Debelius seahorse is barely an inch tall. It is named after Helmut Debelius, the underwater photographer familiar to crusty old marine aquarists like me for his classic sealife books such as Armoured Knights of the Sea.
There are places in the world where they keep tropical fish without worrying about heating the water. Such places are called ‘the tropics’.
The rest of us need to choose an aquarium heater that will keep tank water in the range preferred by our fish: usually between 20-30 ºC, with 24ºC being suitable for most common tropical fish.
Video of the week: February 1-9th 2009:
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The distinct pose adopted by every happy purple firefish you'll ever see
The purple firefish has only been popular in the marine hobby for about 20 years, but in that time it’s become a very popular inhabitant of reef and more peaceful fish-only aquariums.
Where does the purple firefish come from?
The purple firefish, Nemateleotris decora, hails like most tropical marine aquarium species from coral reef areas. They are found in a large range throughout the Western Indo-Pacific, specifically from Mauritius to Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to New Caledonia.
The purple firefish is collected in deeper water of 25-75m, which is doubtless why it took longer than other similar species to make it into the hobby.
Find your nearest fish store with a click of your mouse
Readers based in North America might want to take a look at Local Fish Store Locator, a new website that enables you to find your nearest aquatic crack house retailer.
The site looks a bit unfinished around the edges (the Abous Us page is currently blank, for example) but the central functionality seems pretty operational.
