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- 5 Cardinal Sins Of A Marine Aquarist I thought I’d jot down what I consider to be the five major sins of a marine aquarist, be that reef or fish only. They are not in any particular order. The list is not just aimed at beginners to the hobby who are just starting a saltwater aquarium but at aquarists of any level.
How many dogs does it take to change a light bulb? Don't you just love animal humor, especially when it is served up to take the mickey out of us humanoids. This little beauty about dogs and light bulbs found its way into my in-box and then just as quickly made its way onto this page. These classic and well thought...- No, Changing A Light Bulb Won't Fix Everything. But it's a start, don't you think? Movements throughout history have normally started small, with momentum building towards a crescendo when the times finally change for good. Start small, end big. And while we might not have 100 years to start reducing our negative effect on the environment, isn't it...
EarthTalk: LED Light Bulbs More Efficient Than CFL's? Dear EarthTalk: What’s the story with LED light bulbs that are reputed to be even more energy-efficient than compact fluorescents? Perhaps the ultimate “alternative to the alternative,” the LED (light-emitting diode) light bulb may well dethrone the compact fluorescent (CFL) as king of the green lighting choices. But it has...
How To Pick the Best Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb There's something about compact fluorescent (or CFL) bulbs and the light they put out. The light looks different from what we're used to with energy-wasting incandescent bulbs. Why is that? And is there a CFL that comes close to the light quality of incandescents? There are two ways to...
Rise of the LED Light Bulb While an LED light bulb such as the Evolux incandescent replacement is initially expensive, it is far less so than using incandescent bulbs over the medium to long term. They even beat CFL bulbs. This article shows you the math.- Australia Bans Incandescent Light Bulbs - World Breathes Easier. Finally at the far ends of this earth, a country has done what no one else will...ban incandescent light bulbs. It is about time! They hope to be completely done with them within 3 years, and expect this change to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 4 million tons. I...
- How And Where To Recycle Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs. I know some people have voiced their concerns to me and to other websites about what to do with a compact fluorescent light bulb once it finally burns out...in 6-10 years. You see, the bulbs contain about 5 milligrams of mercury, which cannot be thrown away in a regular landfill,...
Will LED Lighting Ever Replace Metal Halide? Whatever type of marine system is kept lighting is important. With a fish only aquarium the fish need a day cycle and of course need to see where they are going. It’s also good that the aquarist can see the fish! With reef systems the lighting is also important for...- You Cannot Expect To See Change Without Any Effort. In past articles, I have written about how changing a light bulb won't fix everything but also that the little things do matter when added one on top of the other. But one thing I have never said was that this was going to be easy; there is no way...
- Link hopping: Home improvement & energy saving changes edition It's taken quite a few years to get our house looking more like we want it. We've been actively working at ways to save energy in the process. One of the changes that we made that had the most immediate noticeable effect was switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs)....
- Precious angel, Bob Dylan Precious angel, under the sun, How was I to know you'd be the one To show me I was blinded, to show me I was gone How weak was the foundation I was standing upon? Now there's spiritual warfare and flesh and blood breaking down. Ya either got faith...
- Stress Is One Of The Biggest Killers As the title of this post say stress is one of the biggest killers to both fish and corals in the home marine aquarium. Next to this will probably be bad maintenance and mis-management of the aquarium and last but not least will probably be laziness. I remember as a...
- Are We Creating A Home Or A Habitat? At first glance it seems a strange question to be asked. We’re concerned with marine aquariums, so what is meant by ‘home’ and ‘habitat’? It’s pretty obvious that whether the marine aquarium is a reef or fish only system there’s going to be livestock in it. So we need to...
- How Do You Transport Aquarium Fish? Obtaining fish from the LFS (local fish shop) is really exciting. Maybe the aquarium is being initially stocked, or perhaps an ‘extra’ is being added (I hope that this doesn’t mean overstocking!). Whatever the reason for the purchase, the fish need to be taken to the aquarist’s home. The fish...
- Happy New Year It seems customary, perhaps even cliché, around this time of year to look back on the year that's just past. The year 2006 will have to go down as an “interesting” one,to say the least. In spite of some unexpected events, I still managed to get to a lot of...
- The Banded Coral Shrimp There are a few shrimps that find favour with reef aquarists. Two favourites are the cleaner shrimps Lysmata amboinensis and Lysmata grabhami. Another is the banded coral shrimp, often called the banded boxing shrimp, properly called Stenopus hispidus. Have a look: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Stenopus_hispidus_1.jpg Where the common name comes from is partly...
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- Have you been left out of the global market rally? If you are an investor in the stock markets, definitely you would have been asking this question to yourself. Throughout last year world stock markets collapsed, economy was in bad shape and by and large every single person became poorer, networth got eroded and the world has become poor. We...
Depth of Field (DoF) & Aperture | Shutter relationship As the title says, I will focus on Depth of Field (simply called DoF) and the relationship between aperture and shutter speed values. Depth of Field = the area of a photograph where the subject(s) is in clear focus. Playing with Depth of Field values makes a lot o sense...- Preparing to Refinance When I purchased my new home about a year ago, I went with the builder's preferred lender because of the lower closing costs with the incentives. Because I also hadn't yet sold my prior home and really had no cash to put down, I did 100% financing with an 80/20...
- DVD- U.S. Coast Guard License Boating Course Instructional Training Video - Get Your Captains License! This 55 minute DVD video is a concise review of everything that you could ever need to know about getting your Captain's license including rules of the road and chart plotting. This DVD video is an update of the original VHS, which leads you into the most critical areas of...
- 30 Tall Tales #6: Vermont Academy Tomfoolery. The previous article on the Vermont Academy reunion really got me thinking about those strange days, and I realized that there are a wealth of stories which combined would make a great Tall Tale entry. Memories that grow dimmer and dimmer with each passing year - and it's been 13...
- India In her book Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives? Sara Davidson also heads to India. She knows some Boomers are living in India; some are living in Ashrams in India (and one long time Ashram dweller decides to leave the Ashram); and some are volunteering...
follow the white rabbit to financial freedom Trinity: Please just listen. I know why you're here. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And...
creepy and hatboy - someone's killing pizza delivery drivers “i don’t see why they don’t deliver to us, anyway. we’re valued customers. they said so in the pamphlets they handed out last fortnight!”
“they did. send a few drivers, i mean. apparently one went missing last night, which was why we didn’t get our vegetarian with triple pineapple.”
“i wondered about that.”- My Aquarium's Too Warm! In some areas of the world, including mine, it isn't often that the words "isn't it warm" can be heard. Often it is the pitter-patter of rain, or in the winter the howl of winds and the formation of snow drifts. There are places in the world where it is always or mostly warm (coral reef areas are an obvious example). In the summer the weather can be warm and very pleasant where I live. Well, no problem with that says I! It can be a problem, though, if you keep a salt water aquarium.
- Stocking The Saltwater Aquarium Part 2 In Part 1 stocking a fish only aquarium was considered. This time the reef aquarium will be looked at. Whatever the type of salt water aquarium, fish only or reef, water quality is important. In the reef aquarium, water quality needs to be excellent. Again, it is assumed that the aquarium is fully set up with suitable equipment, and the biological filtration (probably a 'live' rock reef with maybe a sump containing further filtration) is settled and adequate.
- Friday's Quizzlet: Frigging In The Rigging. Appetizer: Create a new candle scent.Since I'm officially bringing 'frigging' back this week - frigging. You light the candle, wait five minutes and then someone walks into the room and goes "It smells like sex in here." It's kind of like Kramer's beach cologne idea - only it smells more...
