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Aquarium tank: Planning and equipment needed. Setting up a new tank is a simple process, however if you are complete beginner it’s advisable you buy a ready-made tank as your first tank. This will give you opportunity to learn more about aquarium and save you frustrations of unexpected events like mass fish death. Also you will be assured that standard accessories will fit and that the tank will not leak. Having said that if you are ready to build your first tank you really need to pass through the necessary process. The first step you need to take into consideration is planning. You really need to ask yourself series of questions that will guide you to having a successful aquarium. Questions like: - what you want to achieve with this aquarium; will it be fresh water or salt water, what type of inhabitants you want to keep and what are the necessary equipment for the type of aquarium you want? Start researching online for more information to know more about what you need to put in place to have the type of aquarium you are interested in. You can research directories online to find out the price of necessary equipment that you need to set-up your aquarium. Setting up new aquarium: equipment’s needed. The modern all glass tank consists of five pieces of glass, four sides and bottom. They are held together with a silicon sealant, which is inert and more pliable than old style aquarium cement. Bellow are list of basic equipment’s you will need expect fish and plants which you don’t need at first. * Tanks come in two basic styles: high and low. The high tank has a greater vertical height but a reduced surface area; whereas the low tank is the opposite, it has a low vertical profile and greater surface area. The low is the better of the tow because surface area is much more important than height (or water depth). Your tank must be 25 to 50 gallon capacity range in order to provide stable environment for your fish. * Lighting equipment. * A heater. Any of the submersible or semi-submersible aquarium heaters that rate between 100 watts and 150 watts. * A biological filter. * A mechanical filter. This is necessary if you are using under gravel filter. However if powerful biological filter is use, these are unnecessary. * An air pump or water pump. * Fine gravel or coarse sand. * Solids stand. * Rocks driftwood for decoration and the security of the fish. * A scraper to clean algae off the glass. * A soft net. * A good thermometer.


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Tennessee Aquarium and partners hope to snatch darter from brink of extinction - Chattanooga Times Free Press


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Tennessee Aquarium and partners hope to snatch darter from brink of extinction
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Almost two years ago, researchers from the Tennessee Aquarium and the US Fish and Wildlife captured several specimen of the Conasauga Logperch, one of the rarest darters in North America. On Friday, after a long process of breeding and building a small ...
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The job: Fish nanny - Financial Times


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The job: Fish nanny
Financial Times
My work is researching a sustainable way to raise marine tropical fish in a controlled setting, so that fish owners and aquariums will be able to lessen the negative effects of taking them from coral reefs. The research shows us how to raise fish from ...

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Scary looking fish creating economic terror in Laguna Lake - allvoices


Scary looking fish creating economic terror in Laguna Lake
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According to Hicap, the janitor fish is recently overtaken by carnivorous aquarium specie known as knife fish. The Pamalakaya official said the fry of knife fish is very small that enables them to penetrate fish cages and fishpens, grow inside these ...
'Knife fish' threatening native species in Laguna lakeInquirer.net (blog)

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'Cooking for Solutions': A sardine revolution - Los Angeles Times


'Cooking for Solutions': A sardine revolution
Los Angeles Times
The first discussion at the 2012 Monterey Bay Aquarium "Cooking for Solutions" program was on the problems facing forage fish -- those many little guys marine biologists refer to as "small, schooling pelagics" but which you and I think of mostly as ...

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Last Day for Mayfest and Blue Dome Arts Festival, Fishing clinics and Tulsa ... - Tulsa World


Last Day for Mayfest and Blue Dome Arts Festival, Fishing clinics and Tulsa ...
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For more, visit tulsaworld.com/bluedome12 The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation hosts fishing clinics at the Zebco Casting Pond at the Oklahoma Aquarium during spring and summer. This year's season kicks off Monday.

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Runaway penguin enjoys life in Tokyo Bay - The Daily Yomiuri


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Runaway penguin enjoys life in Tokyo Bay
The Daily Yomiuri
A Humboldt penguin that escaped from an aquarium in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, in March has been repeatedly spotted swimming in Tokyo Bay. Zoological experts believe the penguin does not intend to leave Tokyo Bay, perhaps because it likes the fish in the ...
Japan Penguin 337, Escaped Tokyo Aquarium Penguin, Alive In Tokyo Bay (PHOTOS)Huffington Post
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