Greg Bluestein
Source: Yahoo! News
May 22, 2010

Covington, LA - BP PLC said Saturday it wants to keep using a contentious chemical dispersant to fight the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, despite orders from federal regulators to use something less toxic.

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The W-5 Vortex cooling fan from Dymax is an attractive hang-on device for use in cooling smaller heat-laden aquariums. The Hang-on vortex form factor is a product with which we were not familiar before a couple weeks ago but several UK shops and dozens of booths at InterZoo were sporting different variations of this theme. [...]

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The Ecoxotic PAR38 LED spotlight lamp is fresh off the boat and it bears an uncanny resemblance to the wildly popular PAR38 from NanoCustoms. Five Cree LEDs packing 21 watts are available in an all Royal Blue or in a 2:3 ratio of blues to whites. Ecoxotic’s websites describes “narrow angle focusing lens” which we’ll [...]

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NitrateMinus Pearls from Tetra are the first Biopellet product offering from a multinational aquarium product manufacturer. We spotted these Nitrate Minus Pearls at the giant Tetra booth at InterZoo and it was a surprise to see these high tech reefing beads coming out of a mainstream fish food canister. We find it curious that Tetra [...]

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The E-spot and E-stripe LEDs from Elos are the Italian company’s way of thinking outside the box of the E-lite while still offering some options for reefers to get more from Elos lights. While we were at InterZoo we briefly introduced the E-spot LED lights which come in a single strip with three LEDs for [...]

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The Astra LED light fixture made by Sfiligoi was one of the more attractive and eye-catching fixtures that we saw in the clamp-on light category at InterZoo 2010. The fiber-optic side accent is novel and the profile of the fixture is significantly thinner than many other clamp on LED lights we’ve seen. But all that [...]

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Last week I found myself in San Francisco which allowed for a quick browsing of the Steinhart Aquarium and the rest of the California Academy of Sciences. I was fortunate enough to catch up with Steinhart Biologists and aquarium pros, Rich Ross and Matt Wandell who showed me some of the behind the scene tanks [...] Related posts:

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I officially sealed my fish geekery not only by getting myself a peppermint angelfish action figure, but by having it signed by Richard Pyle, the ichthyologist who originally caught and described this most sensational of reef fishes. However we’re not sure if we’re more thrilled to have a signed peppermint angelfish rookie card or if [...]

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