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MACNA 2016

What a show!  The main takeaway:  The industry has matured. Quality and user-friendly products are much more prevalent now. Here are some photos from MACNA 2016

Live food

The folks at LiveBrineShrimp now have a more affordable USPS Priority Mail shipping option. For their LBS-1 (¼ pound or 25,000 ) live brine shrimp: “NOW YOU CAN HAVE THIS PACKAGE FOR $29.95 DELIVERED INCLUDING FREIGHT, PACKAGING & SHRIMP” Live brine can…

Turtle population on the mend

“The findings of our research show that juvenile hawksbill turtles are thriving at Glover’s Reef– extremely good news for this endangered species,” Virginia Burns Perez, the Wildlife Conservation Society’s technical coordinator in Belize, said in a statement. “Strongholds for the species…

One of the biggest problems

The post below illustrates one of the biggest problems with this hobby/industry and one of the biggest frustrations and roadblocks for beginners. A question is frequently answered with another question, and it is almost always “what do you want to keep?”. …

Water Changes

Assumption: Water quality is always degrading. By that, we mean as far as the animals in our closed system are concerned,  things are always getting worse!  The good stuff like essential minerals and trace elements are being depleted, and the bad stuff,…