by Brian Ecton - DFWMAS

Tank emergencies happen to the best of us. No matter how careful we are, you just never know when something unforeseen will happen, be it a heater breaking in your tank and contaminating your tank with copper, a pump cracking internally and giving you copper contamination, or a foreign substance being introduced to your tank (pesticides are a common problem, but many common cleaning products have chemicals in them that could be lethal to your tank’s inhabitants).

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by Scott Rowe - DFWMAS

Keeping a tank log is something that everyone can do, and it's a simple measure that can be very beneficial. This article will discuss the benefits of a tank log as well as multiple methodologies tailored to the amount of time that a user wishes to devote to it.

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by Scott Rowe - DFWMAS

Make sure you are always safe when dealing with marine organisms.

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We’ve got good news. The Chinese owner of the coal/oil ship that ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef says that all costs will be covered by the vessel’s insurance including fines and clean-up costs from the accident. Interestingly the company, Shenzhen Energy, denied legal responsibility for the accident and the environmental clean-up. [...]

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Aqua Illumination has released these images of their hanging kit for their latest Cree XP-G based LED aquarium light. The hanging kit plays off their modular leg mounting system, but without the associated clutter. This is a boon for rimless aquarium owners who wish to keep the top of their aquarium open. This hanging rack is [...] Related posts:

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Reef Set is set (no pun intended) to make a big scene in the saltwater and freshwater aquarium markets by pushing out a slew of new products. One of their first new products in the Reef Set overflow. It does what you might expect, plus it has a nifty silencer that should eliminate all that [...]

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SeaSmart has been collecting some pretty crazy fish lately. This is a picture of a wrasse they’ve nicknamed the ‘gold nugget wrasse’. Related posts:Seagrass Wrasse, Novaculichthys macrolepidotus Naoko’s Fairy Wrasse Related posts:

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2. Naoko’s Fairy Wrasse

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Tammy Jo Anderson Taft
Source: Guam Pacific Daily News
April 7, 2010

Guam - What would our Legislature do if they were offered $127 million once a year? That's about 25 percent of the entire operating budget for the Government of Guam.

The good news is our island doesn't have to wait to be given $127 million; we already have it. The trick is if we can actually hang on to it.

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