Get off the screen for a weekend. Get out in the real world with real people. Have real face-to-face conversations. Make new fish friends. My kids say, “touch grass.” I say, “get your hands wet, touch some aquarium plants and aquasoils” at the AGA Convention next April! – Matt Pedersen
Authors Anna Mahulo and Ole Seehausen recently described two new snail-crushing cichlid species, Labrochromis mawe and Labrochromis mawepili, from the rocky reefs of southeastern Lake Victoria.
This week’s podcast starts with researcher Wesley Gerrin recounting the 2020 discovery of some unusual, eel-like fish during a routine fish survey at a site called “Redneck Beach”, a college kid hangout described as “a cesspool of idiocracy” on Georgia’s McNutt Creek…
Details are sparse, but Tropica’s value proposition is clear. The suggestion is that the new plant clips can replace the functionality of a traditional potted aquarium plant, reducing plastic waste and eliminating the use of rockwool.
On Monday, February 24th, 2025, we received a copy of a surprising email from eBay. In summary, the online marketplace and auction juggernaut eBay appears to be reversing the animal sales policy, banning nearly all live animal sales, which eBay had announced just days prior on February 19th.
On February 10th, 2025, one of the most accomplished individuals in the aquarium industry added another accolade to her ever-growing collection. That person is Segrest Farm’s President, Sandy Moore, who Florida’s Department of Agriculture recognized as the 2024 Woman of the Year in Agriculture.
Fish and coral sales on eBay appear to continue “business as usual” at the moment, but a policy change due to take effect in mid-March would effectively shutter one of the largest online marketplaces for small businesses that sell aquarium livestock.
There is loads of crap on the Internet. That said, the @tanksfornothin YouTube Channel is pure gold. This is inspirational storytelling that inspires an aquarist to view the aquarium hobby from a new perspective, even transcending the aquarist to serve as a captivating ambassador of aquarium keeping for the general public!
Why one AMAZONAS and CORAL publisher is still skeptical of AI in our daily lives.
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