Saltwater Aquarium Advice

Actually, though, the lemon tetra is quite colorful on close inspection. Body coloring is a delicate pale yellow, flanks are silver, and the leading edge of the anal fin is shiny-bright-yellow and sharply divided from the other rays, which are black. In the male, the rest of the anal fin is broad and fringed in black, a characteristic that is missing in the

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Whats Hot: A Mix of Techniques

The late nineteen nineties find that as with human affairs, "there are no great leaders, just great committees"; what is being most utilized is a hodge-podge of the best of all the above (and more) filtration ideas, methods and attitudes. High quality live rock, live sand with or without the Jaubert plenum arrangement, vigorous circulation, and improved protein skimming are de riguer. Often, where space and budgets allow, aquaris

As you will soon see, there are many methods and techniques that may be used to accomplish the same thing. All have one thing in common: They all serve to convert toxic ammonia and am

Nitrogen compound testing gives you that.

Basically, all living things are made up of molecular building blocks called Amino Acids (AA for short). These are structures of carbon chains (some with sulfur), oxygen, hydrogen that are linked to one another by amino bonds to form proteins. Amino bond sounds a lot like ammonia, because it is. The nitrogen cycle is the sum total of processes that convert atmospheric nitrogen (N2) into compounds useful to animals

Ive used this wonderful color-in-by-the-numbers book for high school to university instruction to teach local (California) near-shore marine biology.

California Reef Specialists, 740 Tioga Ave., Sand City, CA 93955, 408-394-7271 produce a handy, informative newsletter on temperate reefs as well as supplying cold water organisms and "live-rock". They have David Wrobels excellent "cool" booklets too.

OT:Found this on the Yahoo news area, made me laugh so hard.
Sorry but I thought this was too funny :laughroll . http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/35244816.

Flowerhorn Cichlids

Flowerhorn cichlids is a hybrid cichlid that was developed in Malaysia during the second half of the 1990: s. It was created by crossbreeding different South American cichlids. Exactly which cichlids that were used to create the Flowerhorn is a well kept secret only known by the breeders who developed the species but they did most likely crossbreed Trimacs (Amhilophous.