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I have been having an issue with heat build up and one easy way to deal with it (without getting a chiller) is to use fans. Fans on an aquarium help to increase evaporation, which cools the aquarium because some of the warm water is replaced with top off water. It does mean the top off water will be used more quickly, so if you go this route, be prepared to refill your top off reservoir more often.

I decided to use some old computer fans as a method for introducing cooler air on top ...

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Saltwater Mixing with Tunze NanoStream 6025 & Brightwell Aquatics Neomarine Reef Aquaria Salt
Friday, July 16, 2010

After some initial research among the various salt mixes available I decided to go out and purchase some Brightwell Aquatics Neomarine Reef Aquaria Salt from a local retailer "Gotham Aquatics" who was having a sale on it. After a very long drive sitting in rush hour traffic to Brooklyn and back to the Bronx I finally got home with my salt. From the ...

I think we almost died on this flight. It was the worst scare I've had on a plane ever. Landed a few minutes ago and have to catch a connecting flight in 1.5 hours.

After a momentary freefall, the captain never addressed the passengers for the final 15 mins of our flight. My guess is some thing broke and the flight crew had their hands full for the rest of the flight.

Even on the runway, he never came on the mic. Since the oxygen masks didn't fall, I guess it wasn't ...

I am redoing the plumbing on my tank, I am wondering after glueing the PVC doI need to do anything special? Will the live stock be ok with the glue? How long should I want until I start running water through the PVC again? Thanks for the help!

Exactly 1 week ago I added a new clean-up crew to my tank. As part of the same order I got a little 1/2" long Randals pistol shrimp in the hopes that he'd pair up with my yellow head antenna goby. Well, I haven't seen him all week, till last night! There he was out in the open grabbing food, with one antenna on the goby