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FANTASTIC Monthly Club Meeting! If you missed it LIVE then here is recording: Here is our ICP Test Kit winner with prize (also sporting her Aquashella volunteer t-shirt):

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Every year, who comes out at Aquashella changes. Aquashella's website has a link to floor plan, and that can help you plan your shopping... though there is SO much eye candy its just an amazing experience! Probably CADE and AlgaeBarn planned their collaboration WAY in advance and I just...

JEREMY GAY 4 DAYS AGO Every day is reef tank day for me, but on Sundays, I take the day off from writing and have the opportunity to execute some of my bigger plans. The 200-liter shallow soft coral lagoon is doing great. So great in fact that is there no room left for any new corals. The...

MICHAEL PALETTA 6 DAYS AGO Back when I started keeping fish, filtration consisted of angel hair or glass wool as the mechanical filtration and charcoal as the chemical filtration. Now there are a multitude of ways to perform these types of filtration, but rarely are their merits or shortcomings...

MATT WANDELL 7 HOURS AGO Glass drilling and aquarium cutting are invaluable skills for reef keepers who want to build their own custom tanks and systems. While drilling and cutting acrylic are simpler processes, acrylic tanks are usually much more expensive. A fish-holding or coral culture...

MICHAEL PALETTA 2 WEEKS AGO In the early days of the hobby when we were just happy keeping anything alive, our next greatest joy was when we got something to reproduce. It could have been Caulerpa, Aiptasia, and then finally something like Xenia. Regardless of what it was, we were happy because...

JEREMY GAY 2 WEEKS AGO We’ve always had a soft spot for damselfish since they were our first saltwater fish over 25 years ago. We still like their bold colors, cichlid-like looks, and behavior, and still add them to our reef tanks even now. Sure, we avoid Domino damsels and Sergeant majors, but...

JEREMY GAY 3 WEEKS AGO Bubble algae is one of the most persistent pests of mature reef aquaria, overgrowing corals, weir combs, and wave pumps if left unchecked. Newbies often report surprise when they first find the small, bottle green, glassy balls as it’s something else that’s new and has...

Yes, I know a jellyfish is not an anemone... I'm great at raising bubble tip anemones but I'd be terrible at jellyfish lol... and there are even more differences! Anyhow, out of all the Forum areas, this seemed the best place for this given their squishiness... other moderators feel free to move...

JEREMY GAY 3 DAYS AGO A team of researchers has determined that comb jellies, Ctenophores, were the first animals on earth, existing 700 million years ago, and pre-dating sponges by 100 million years. They are also the most recent common ancestor of all animals, (including ourselves,) and can...

JEREMY GAY 9 HOURS AGO A new species of snapping shrimp has been described based on two specimens collected in the Maldives. Alpheus octocellatus appears to be morphologically most similar to Alpheus edwardsii, pareuchirus and leptochirus so the paper’s authors have placed it in the edwardsii...

JEREMY GAY 3 WEEKS AGO Dutch wholesaler DeJong Marinelife has successfully bred the Circled Dragonet, Synchiropus circularis. Combine a male and female dragonet, feed them plenty of the right food and even captive spawning often comes naturally, but what makes this such a big deal is that...

JEREMY GAY 3 DAYS AGO As the saltwater aquarium hobby celebrates over half a century of maturation, we often talk about the many reefkeeping pioneers. In his 1972 book “Tropical Fish, Freshwater, and Marine Aquaria,” Reginald Dutta talked about equipment such as an Ozonizer, an Ultra Violet Ray...

When I think of Utah, Sea Monkey is not the first thing I think about... LOL Now I'm wondering about the other state's official crustaceans... Hoping Maryland has Blue Crab... California I'd vote Dungeoness (yum!) but the rest might be anything

JEREMY GAY 3 WEEKS AGO Think of the great State animals of the US and you may think of the Bison, the Grizzly Bear, or even the Bowhead Whale, but none of them are as cool as Utah’s latest designation, the Brine Shrimp, Artemia salina. Native to Utah’s Great Salt Lake, these tiny salt-loving...