ReefAddicts Podcast Episode 2 has arrived! You can sit back and breathe easier while you listen to 2 hr 30 minutes and 25 seconds of it. In honor of Valentine's Day this episode features some new adventures for melev's love life, a guest appearance from the ever-so-lovely Laura Birenbaum of IceCap Inc., and a great discussion about fish tank rooms featuring Drew Richardson. We wrap up the show with some of the insanity left on our Reef Addicts Answering Machine by YOU our dedicated addicts! As always thanks for the listen and be sure to tell all the other addicts you know about the new podcast!
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Several Hawaii residents, environmentalists and commercial tropical fish collectors are outraged over the dumping of 610 fish, discovered this past weekend in a trash bin at Honokohau Small Boat Harbor.

Read More: http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/artic...al/local01.txt

I wonder why these guys got dumped. I think it was probably an exporter's tank crash at some facility personally. But still, to see all those lovely tang laid out on the ground like this. Makes me sad. ...

Sea slug surprise: It’s half-plant, half-animal

Scientists aren't yet sure how animals actually appropriate genes they need

This green slug, which is part animal and part plant, produces its own chlorophyll and so can carry out photosynthesis, turning sunlight into energy, scientists have found.

Read more here.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34824610...nce/?GT1=43001 ...

In May of 2009 I had the opportunity to go to Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, IL. I knew at the time that I wanted to do a photo spread for this site so people around the US could get a little peek into other public aquariums around the U.S. At a cost of $24.95 for an adult ticket, I enjoyed my time at the aquarium. The day I went the penguin and dolphin exhibits weren't open, so if you're planning a trip you may want to call and confirm if any of the exhibits are closed.
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Spotlight on Non-Photosynthetic Coral Tank at The Aquarium of the Pacific. Long Beach, CA

Tank Size: Acrylic, 600 gallons total water volume. Stand-alone system.
Equipment: ETS skimmer, sump with a lot of live rock covered in sponge growth for natural filtration, & a filter bag. No refugium.
Lighting: one 250w 20,000K Metal Halide bulb
Water Temp: 76° F
Feeding: The tank is fed throughout the day on average hourly. Foods include: lots of Cyclop-Eze; Ocean Nutrition Nano Reef food; baby brine shrimp (nauptili); frozed mysid for the fish; and phytoplankton occasionally. Some days food is only offered to the fish.
Cleaning: Filter bag is cleaned daily, sprayed clean with fresh water – protein skimmer is cleaned weekly. We used to do daily 25% water changes when all the corals were closed, but now that they have adapted we can do two to three 25% water

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In the true deeply-lazy-reefer fashion, I tend to neglect scraping the coralline algae off the glass. It's a pain, my long-handled scraper doesn't have a sharp enough blade, but my short-handled razor scraper isn't long enough to reach the bottom of the tank, and either way I wind up soaked, stabbed by acros, bitten by &%$#@ fish, and probably accidentally fragging stuff along the way. Not a very enjoyable way to spend an evening.

I HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER! AND ITS PRICE TAG WARMS MY CHEAP@$$ SHRIVELED SOUL!
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