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Monthly Archives: August 2012
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Product Review: Sunshine Systems AquaUFO LED light
Manufacturers of aquarium LED lights are doing everything to make their product stand out of the crowd an gather a steady customer base. The manufacturer of LED panel that is a subject of today’s review tries yet another approach to attract customers to it’s product. The AquaUFO light from Sunshine Systems (LINK) surely turns heads with it’s unforgettable name and interesting looks. Let’s find out what it offers and how well it performs in the remaining part of this review…… More:
Posted in Equipment, Industry
Tagged aquarium light review, aquarium lighting, AquaUFO, Bridgelux, led light, LED review
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Pre-MACNA 2012 Episode – Matt P & Paul W, DFWMAS, Bob F & Scott F
Pre-MACNA 2012 Episode – Matt P & Paul W, DFWMAS, Bob F & Scott F | Welcome to the Pre-MACNA MASNA Live. | The MASNA BOD elections are now open. Log in to MASNA’s election site to apply: http://www.masna.org/AboutMASNA/BODElections.aspx | Matt Pedersen and Paul Whitby speaking about their presentations: Matt’s ark article: http://www.reefs.com/blog/2012/01/09/we-are-noahs-ark-the-immorality-of-aquariums-debunked/ | DFWMAS talking about MACNA 2012 on Sept 28-30th
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Posted in Podcast
Tagged 2012-on-sept, ark-article, bod, election-site, episode, fenner, hobbies, MACNA, MASNA, presentations, scott-fellman
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Mr. Saltwater Tank TV Friday Am Quick Tip #93: Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Curious
Crabs, shrimp and snails all make up members of your tank’s clean up crew. Given their nature, they crawl over everything and can make you think they do more harm then good. Here’s how to make sure they are staying in line.
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Award winning UK aquarium The Deep, is working on rare spider conservation
The Deep, one of the UK’s most well-respected aquaria is working to protect one of the country’s rarest arachnids by ‘fostering’ 100 Fen Raft spiderlings, in an effort to establish new populations of the species.… More:
Posted in Conservation, Science
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Interzoo 2012: The Vertex Aquaristik booth
We continue our trip inside Interzoo and into the hall number 4 to visit the stand of Vertex that welcomes us immediately with a statement of intent, with a list of all new products that were on the booth: Illumina, Cerebra, Mocean, Simplex, Vectra, Alpha and Libra.
Let’s proceed in order, and let’s start with one of the most acclaimed Vertex products, the LED lighting Illumina. Here were presented several innovations like the introduction of a different set of LEDs with other shades of color.
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Romney and Obama urged to support the oceans
In a letter delivered to both campaigns on Aug. 14, sixty leaders in exploration, conservation, science and business — including members of the Cousteau family, ocean leaders from Google, the dive industry, National Geographic, the National Aquarium and Coastal States Organization have called on presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to recognize the economic and environmental benefits of protecting America’s coasts and oceans.… More:
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Reefs App Updated to 3.2
Today we released a minor update to the Reefs iOS app which adds a bunch of new long requested features as well as hundreds of new coral photos, all of which are in higher resolution. Remember, the Reefs App is FREE from the Apple App Store. DOWNLOAD HERE. This update is free for all previous owners.… More:
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Reef Threads Podcast #96
Help Kennedy Donnelly, through her Pedaling for Pencils effort, to raise money to build a classroom through the Pencils of Promise program. Seven days have passed and that means it’s time for the next Reef Threads podcast.
Squid Skin and Cypress Hill combine forces
The folks at Backyard Brains, known for their Spikerbox that can help you record and see neural activity, and researchers at at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA have applied the Backyard Brains protocol stimulating an amputated cockroach leg into motion via music to the chromatophores of squid skin, with very cool results. Squids, and other cephalopods, neurally control the pigmented cells in their skin, chromatophores, to reflect light. The squid skin in use belongs to the Longfin Inshore Squid, loligo pealei, and has three different chromatophore colors – brown, red and yellow – with each chromatophore surrounded by muscles that can contract to reveal the pigment underneath. According to Backyard Brains, “We used a suction electrode to attach to the squid’s fin nerve, then connected the electrode to an iPod nano as our stimulator. The results were both interesting and beautiful. The video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the fin”.
If you didn’t think cephalopods were cool before, this alone should change your mind. Perhaps in the future, dance clubs will be wall papered with artificially grown squid skin, or perhaps your television will be made of a squid skin analogue. I know, we still want our jet packs, but perhaps the squid can help us there too.… More:
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A reefer’s guide to weekend activities- Whale-watching Trip
Just because spending an evening having face flattened on the aquarium glass panels and remaining motionless for hours (except eyes racing after tank inhabitants) isn’t enough for an average aquarium keeper, we need to entertain ourselves in some other ways. Beside public aquariums visits and fish store carpools, there are plenty of other activities more or less related to our hobby. In this series of articles, I’ll aim to write about some of the most interesting ideas to fill your free time and feed your creative mind…… More:
Posted in Conservation, Photography, Science, Uncategorized
Tagged cape cod, finback whale, humpback whale, ocean, ocean mammals, reefer weekend, whale watching
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Mr. Saltwater Tank TV Friday Am Quick Tip #92: You Look JUST Like The Photo!
When setting up your saltwater tank, the arrangement of the rocks (called “aquascaping”) is a partly personal taste and partly how the rocks fit together. Some reef junkies spend days aquascaping their tanks and here’s how to speed the aquascaping process along. Tagged as: aquascaping , creating an aquascape
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Sicce Syncra Silent pumps 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0: The Total Comparative Test
Let’s continue with this article to speak about the numbers resulting from our tests, following the introduction that you can read here: Return Pumps: tests and real measurements compared, and the test done with Eheim pumps: Eheim pumps 1048, 1250 and 1260: The Total Comparative Test and Sicce Pumps: Sicce Syncra Silent pumps 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5: The Total Comparative Test now we continue to analyze the intermediate Sicce pumps: the Sicce Syncra Silent 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0. Sicce Syncra Silent 2.0
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