Recent Posts Tagged With 'aquariums'

• America's oldest aquarium gets a new look

  Posted on Wednesday May 28th, 2008 at 19:14 in aquariums, reef news

    WASHINGTON - America's oldest aquarium has a new look, and you might not know it's in an unlikely place in downtown D.C. The National Aquarium is inside the the U.S. Department of Commerce building on 14th Street between Pennsylvania and Con...

• John Shedd Reed, 1917 - 2008 -- chicagotribune.com

  Posted on Monday March 17th, 2008 at 06:08 in aquariums, reef news

    Although John Shedd Reed was born into the prominent and wealthy Shedd family, for whom Chicago's Shedd Aquarium is named, he led a straight-arrow life and knew not to bring business home."Growing up, there was no room for anything that smell...

• $150 Yellow Tangs a possibility

  Posted on Thursday January 31st, 2008 at 19:45 in fish, oceans, aquariums

  Check out this bill being proposed in Hawaii. Report Title: Fishing; Ornamental Fish; Bag Limits; No Take Category; Appropriation Description: Imposes bag limits on certain ornamental fish; prohibits catching of certain ornamental fish; approp...

• Sharks, 550 Fish Leave Casino For Aquarium - Connecticut News Story - WFSB Hartford

  Posted on Wednesday January 30th, 2008 at 18:47 in fish, aquariums, reef news

    UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- The Mystic Aquarium has taken in 550 fish, including three blacktip sharks, after a fish tank sprung a leak at the Mohegan Sun gift shop. Divers caught the three sharks on Wednesday so they could be taken to their new ho...

• kare11.com :: KARE 11 TV - Shark vs. shark attack at the Mall of America

  Posted on Saturday January 26th, 2008 at 10:45 in Sharks, aquariums, reef news

    Shark attack in Minnesota? Who woulda thought? Fortunately, the victim was another shark, and that shark survived. But not before a tunnel full of aquarium visitors were treated to a true, raw display of nature.Jessie, the nine foot, 300 poun...

• Aquarium of the Pacific | Blogs - Cool Post

  Posted on Thursday January 17th, 2008 at 20:21 in aquariums, coral

    The hierarchy of difficulty in aquaria is as follows: cold freshwater, tropical freshwater, saltwater, live planted freshwater, live coral saltwater. Cold freshwater aquaria, which are most often goldfish tanks, are the easiest to maintain whi...

• Practical Fishkeeping magazine | Blog: Sealed condom aquarium causes stir

  Posted on Thursday January 17th, 2008 at 16:48 in fish, aquariums, reef news

    Practical Fishkeeping Forum regular Bennystalebread (not his real name) pointed out a shocking video today which shows how you can make an ecosphere-like aquarium from a condom. The video below, which Bennystalebread found on Metacafe, shows ...

• Video of my tank from today.

  Posted on Saturday January 12th, 2008 at 20:57 in reef, aquariums

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• Aquarium aficionados enjoy a full tank - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

  Posted on Saturday January 12th, 2008 at 18:17 in aquariums

    First it was a goldfish in a bowl that his sister brought home from the Kaufmann's semi-annual fish sale Downtown when he was 10. Then it was a few more classroom fish and a tank that a science teacher rewarded him with in sixth grade. By gra...