Talkingreef

It has finally begun, the long anticipated series on Seahorse care. In this first episode i am joined by David Perry (JustDavidP) and Greg Hix (Saxman) to talk about the basic care of seahorses and then into topics on picking out seahorses. Here is a high level list of the seahorse topics covered in this show: Seahorse Basics * Tank setup * Proper Filtration Types * Acceptable water parameters * Compatible clean up crew * Compatible fish * Proper feeding items and techniques Preparing for Seahorses * Quarantine tank * Quarantine procedures * Hospital tanks Purchasing * Wild vs Captive bred vs tank raises * Selecting healthy specimen * Mixing different Species And Much more

This week i am presenting a video on building a DIY Tube Fuge, this video walks you through the process of building and putting in place a DIY Tube Fuge. The video was done by Samuel Helms, its a concept project that was he researched put together. I would like everyone to keep in mind this is a version 1.0. So if you see a better way of doing something, we kindly as that you help contribute to this project and post your suggestions here :) lets collaborate on this.

The week we have a quick listener question from Mark, then we move on to an interview. In this Interview Jake Adams interviews Alina Szmant. During this interview they dive into the details behind coral reproductions and current research efforts.

This months reefkeeping edition podcast is an interview with Sarah Lardizabal. In this show she gives us a great introduction to macroalgae. Here are some of the topics discussed * Differences between plants and algae * Differences between macro and micro algae * Difference between beneficial and nuisance macroalgae * Tips to identify Macro algae * Explanation of macroalgae sexual reproduction * Beneficial uses of macro algae

Well hello everyone, as the year winds to a close, so do i. ok, im just kidding. In this show i take a minute (actually about 15) to look at where talkingreef has come from, where we are, and most important, where we are going. There are some things with the podcast that are going to change, you can listen to the show if you want to know. As for the future, we are going to spend a lot of time on series shows, and in this episode i give a sneak peak into three upcoming Talkingreef series shows. Finally, i have a lot of ideas for website customization, but implementing them goes beyond my web development knowledge, if you are a web developer familiar with PHP and MySQL, please contact me.. i have some work for ya.. ;)

Jake Adams is back again with a great, in depth interview with Dr. Steve Stancyk of the University of South Carolina all about Brittle stars.

Its been a busy week for all of us, and a slow week for the Talkingreef. im going to give everyone a break from the normal show and present a video presentation that was put together by Samuel Helms (Astrivian). Many of you will remember Samuel from the podcast episode on using aquariums as educational tool, well this is the presentation he gave explaining why that was an effective simulation. If you are at all interested in the used of aquariums for education please check out this video.

Well, tomorrows the American holiday of Thanksgiving, and sticking with our tradition, i wanted to say thank you to everyone hat has helped support the show and continues to listen and spread the word. Because of the holiday, i am also releasing the show early, this is the show for the week. In this show Wes is back to help me with Part 2 of the Q&A, in the show we get to fluorescence and Metal Halides, and hopefully wrap up most of peoples lighting questions.

For this weeks how im joined by Wes as he presents this weeks questions for the lighting part 1 Questions and Answers show. we have a whole list of question for this show all around general lighting concepts, i will get a sit of the questions posted shortly. Lighting Part 6 Q&A#2 is next week and we will present questions and answers around Metal Halide lighting and fluorescent lighting

Part 4 in the lighting series. In this part we are going to talk about reflectors and ballasts, not extremely technical, but some important topics to cover, here is a highlight of what we discus in this showTopics: Reflectors - Types - - Parallel - - Vertical - Designs - - Hemispherical - - Squared - - SpiderBallasts - Magnetic - - Probe start - - Pulse start - Electronic