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Marie Digby
2007-08-21 01:57:00 So in a non-related news, I came across this new artist that I thought I’d share here. Her name is Mari e Digby (pronounced Mar-ee-ay) and I guess you have to be in the southern california area to have heard about her (so that means everyone outside of southern california, when you start hearing her name ... More About: Marie Digby
Spider Crab - Long Beach Aquarium
2007-08-20 09:32:00 From Wikipedia… “The Japanese spider crab, Macrocheira kaempferi, is the largest living arthropod; fully grown it can reach a leg span of almost 4 m (13 feet), a body size of up to 37 cm (15 inches) and a weight of up to 20 kg (44 pounds). The crab’s natural habitat is on the bottom of ... More About: Beach , Aquarium , Crab , Long , Spider
Fish ?N Flush Toilet Fish Tanks
2007-08-18 20:29:00 i’ve heard about a toilet tank that had a fish tank in it awhile back but I guess it’s starting to catch on…. In an era when even the most random household item is accessorized, it was only a matter of time before someone realized the toilet was one of the few frontiers that had been ... More About: Fish , Flush , Toilet
ClownFish Eggs Again!
2007-08-16 18:22:00 Woke up in the morning and first thing i always do is check on the tank. in my half-asleep state…i noticed something yellow where there shouldn’t be anything yellow. look closer and saw that my clownfish had laid eggs again! This time they were in a better location..in the front part of the tank so ... More About: Eggs
Long Beach Aquarium
2007-08-14 00:53:00 I went to the Long Beach Aqua rium this weekend. What a great place. I took over 300 pictures that I’ll be sharing for awhile. haha. Also, going on the weekend is complete chaos. so many kids running around and it was like a stroller convention there. more pictures to come soon…. More About: Long Beach
Reproductive Behavior in Freshwater Fish
2007-08-10 20:45:00 Fish can be divided into two broad categories on the basis of their breeding behavior. Egg-layers, which form the majority, practice external fertilization, while in live bearers the eggs are fertilized in the female’s body and emerge fully formed young. Some species show little regard for their offspring and cannibalize their own eggs or fry. ... More About: Articles , Fish , Behavior , Prod
PlanetInverts.com - Our New Sponsor!
2007-08-07 22:20:00 I’d like to welcome PlanetInverts.com as one of our new sponsors for MFT. As their name implies, they specialize in inverts for your aquarium. Currently their main selection is shrimps. I expect them to expand their selection choices shortly to offer more variety to their visitors and especially members of MFT. Their selection of shrimps ... More About: Sponsors , Sponsor , Anet , Vert
San Diego Zoo Visit
2007-07-31 21:20:00 This weekend I got the opportunity to visit the San Diego Zoo. The main attraction was the Pandas but I got to see some other animals. I didn’t know the zoo was so popular as it’s been over 10 years since I’ve been to one. They have yearly passes but I was wondering why anyone ... More About: Visit
JackPot The Golden Blenny Eats!
2007-07-27 19:29:00 So JackPot! the Golden Blenny finally is starting to eat algae flakes like the other fishes. woohoo! at first he wouldn’t pay attention to them but lately he’s been eating it and spitting it back out earlier in the week but last night i saw him start to eat the flakes. More About: Jackpot , The Go , The G
My Clownfish Are Breeding
2007-07-26 19:34:00 So last night was good and bad news. Bad news was one of my anemones got sucked into a power filter. bah. that was a mess to clean up. it wasn’t a rose anemone but still losing anything sucks. anyways…a few weeks ago, I noticed one of the clownfish exhibiting breeding behaviors (the cleaning of ... More About: Breeding , Breed
Hmm. This looks really familiar
2007-07-23 23:51:00 took a quick stop at a restaurant and noticed they had this ‘icon’ in their menu! it looks REALLY FAMILIAR! i used the same picture as my avatar since 2000 and for awhile that was the “official” logo of MFT. and no..they didn’t steal it from us cause I think I found the image on ... More About: Look , Really , Ally , Looks
Gummi Bear Death
2007-07-17 20:23:00 whoa! i wonder if it really makes that sound or if they added sound effects. More About: Death , Bear
Jackpot The Golden Blenny July Update
2007-07-16 09:48:00 A Jackpot the Golden Blenny update. I can’t believe it’s been 2 months since I got him. I had to double check the date to make sure. Man..how time flies. But good news! Jackpot is still alive. So far I’ve had zero luck in trying to get it to eat flakes or frozen mysis shrimp. ... More About: Update , July , The Go
Bus-sized squid washes up on beach
2007-07-11 20:10:00 HOBART, Australia (AP) — A squid as long as a bus and weighing 550 pounds washed up on an Australian beach, officials said Wednesday. The giant squid was found by a beachcomber on the Australian island state of Tasmania. “It is a whopper,” said Genefor Walker-Smith, a zoologist who studies invertebrates at the Tasmanian Museum. Giant ... More About: Beach , Squid
Japanese Trained Goldfish
2007-07-10 19:35:00 rumor or truth? Goldfish have a memory of only 3 seconds? Then how do they know how to do this? The only training my goldfish know is to follow me back and forth thinking i’m about to feed them. i haven’t gotten to the point where they can synchronize swim. More About: Japanese , TRAI , Trained
Rose Standing Tall
2007-07-09 09:17:00 an update on my tank. nothing really exciting has been happening except for the daily battle to keep the temperature of the tank down as we’re getting 95F days here in sunny southern california. I do have a chiller for the tank but it’s there for emergencies cause when it turns on, it heats ... More About: Rose , Tall , Standing , Stand
Octosquid Caught At Keahole Point
2007-07-06 09:44:00 t’s a squid, it’s an octopus, it’s … a mystery from the deep.What appears to be a half-squid, half-octopus specimen found off Keahole Point on the Big Island remains unidentified today and could possibly be a new species, said local biologists. The specimen was found caught in a filter in one of Natural Energy Laboratory of ... More About: Caught , Squid
Zebra Horse Hybrid
2007-07-05 20:16:00 I know Froggy would enjoy this…. Zorse ‘Eclyse’, a zebra-horse hybrid foal is pictured in the Safari park in Holte-Stukenbrock near the western German city of Bielefeld June 27, 2007. One-year-old Eclyse was accidentally produced when her mother a zebra, was taken from her German safari park home to a ranch in Italy for a brief ... More About: Hybrid , Horse
Ice Cube Fish Tank
2007-07-03 19:15:00 no information provided about this…just pictures…so i’ll just hope for the best for the fishes! More About: Fish , Tank , Cube , Ice Cube
Putting the Bite on The Piranha Myth
2007-07-02 21:09:00 i always like to find facts that change my stereotypes of certain things like how piranhas would annihilate anything you gave them (which is still somewhat true) but they’re not as aggressive as i thought they would be. PIRANHA may not deserve their reputation as the ferocious man-eaters that almost made mincemeat of James ... More About: Putting , Myth , Bite
Move Over
2007-06-30 01:16:00 Best.Idea.Ever. Traffic has become increasingly congested and tempers flare as slower drivers occupy what has been historically referred to as the ?fast lane?. It?s time to get that Left Lane back! It is our considered opinion that not only will traffic move more smoothly and more quickly once the Left Lane is used in the way ... More About: Move
Aquarium puts three rare fish on display
2007-06-27 19:01:00 THE Shanghai Ocean Aquarium plans to add three rare fish that have never been exhibited in the country before to its collection - the freshwater lionfish, sisorid catfish and sea apples. The freshwater lionfish has a big brown head that accounts for one-third of its total length. It has spines on its skin that can cause ... More About: Fish , Display , Rare , Three
Kobayashi Sore Jaw
2007-06-26 02:57:00 The Ultimate Hot Dog Eater for the past 6 years has come down with a case of the sore jaw. This really sucks as it’s almost time for the annual coney island hot dog eating contest! Did anyone ever watch the MTV show “True Life” when they followed the lives of competitive eaters? There was ... More About: Kobayashi
Japanese Tetris Game
2007-06-22 15:06:00 my friend forwarded this video to me and it’s HI-larious. I just love Japanese game shows. It all started with Ninja Warrior and we need to stop with the reality shows (America’s Got Talent imho stinks…) and bring these over…. More About: Tetris , Game
Esnailer - Send Snail Mail For Free
2007-06-21 13:16:00 Random website of the day….. So I was told about this one site where you can go back to the old skool way of writing letters…through the post office! But paying for stamps is like “not cool” so someone came up with this craaazy idea of letting you write and send letters for FREE. So what’s ... More About: Mail , Free , Send , Nail , Nailer
Free Jamba Juice
2007-06-20 22:34:00 Free Jamba Juice when you purchase one! just right click and “view image”. that’ll take you to just the image only and just print it out and take it to your local jamba juice. Good till July 4th! More About: Free , Jamba Juice
Scuba Nano Tank
2007-06-15 02:02:00 Here’s another of those unique nano tanks for scuba divers. I think this one is better than the tiki one. We are pleased to introduce this new signature line of designer desktop aquariums that is anything but standard. These unique and highly detailed pieces are the perfect accessory to any interior. This aquarium is ... More About: Tank , Nano
Starbucks White Mocha Light Frappuccino
2007-06-14 01:48:00 Who loves starbucks? So my favorite drink from Starbucks is the White Mocha Frappuccino w/ whipped cream on top. Trying to be healthy, I cut out the whipped cream and noticed they had a “light” version of my drink. I went to the Starbucks website and compared the number of calories I would be able ... More About: Light , Buck
Tiki Desktop Aquarium Aloha!
2007-06-10 08:45:00 For those looking for a really unique nano aquarium tank…i present to you..the Tiki Desk top Aqua rium ! It comes with: With swaying palms and the echo of distant drums, let the Aloha Tiki model transport you into the romance of Polynesia. This cylindrical aquarium is incorporated within a delicately carved tiki statue, detailed with native images. With its ...
World Ocean Day 2007
More articles from this author:2007-06-08 20:12:00 Today is World Ocean Day and I wanted to help spread the word. Why Should I Celebrate World Ocean Day? It’s up to each one of us to help ensure that our ocean is protected and conserved for future generations. World Ocean Day allows us to? Change perspective - encourage individuals to think about what the ocean means ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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