Aquamar Nanoscope D-D, Review

The Aquamar Nanoscope D-D it’s an optical tool with a 48x magnification. It’s a mesoscope produced by The Aquarium Solution and distribuited in Italy by Aquaristica.

It ‘an object that could satisfy both the playful aspect (allowing you to comfortably observe the spectacle offered by a polyps of SPS as they expand and prey) and the need to inspect the state of health of an animal or verify the presence of micro-organisms and undesirable pests.

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My new sump

After so much time, I ordered one new glass sump for my marine aquarium

At first glance it seems a very simple sump but… it is not! In the same footprint of the previous one, only 5 cm more depth, I have so much more.

The new dimensions are 70×50 but with 50 cm height, all around but in the middle of the sump where I have only 40 cm to easily work, to put in and out the skimmer, the calcium reactor, and all the other reactors I need.

The space in the left is for a refugium, with a total capacity of almost 46 litres.

The space for osmosis water it’s around the sump, with a total capacity of about 28 litres.

8 mm glass thickness.

The bottom is created with two glass plates… much more strong… do we need it? I don’t know… but…

What do you think?

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Tunze Turbelle Stream 6105 – The Complete Review

The Tunze Stream Turbelle 6105 can be considered as the main product of the lineup of the Tunze pumps. This is because they can be used in aquariums from 300 to 400 liters, which are the ones most advance aquarist chose to use today. These are those aquariums that are larger than a nanoreef but smaller than a 500.

In this way they can still provide a decent catchment area, especially if we consider that 120cm aquariums of length are the ones which have the best ratio among quality/price/performance for keeping sps corals, which is reason why aquarist buy these pumps.

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Tunze versus Vortech, what’s about the better flow?

It made quite a debate in the United States an article published in Advanced Aquarist and edited by Michael Sandford, William Straka and Sanjay Joshi, which proposes a new method to calculate the flow of the propeller pumps.

Yes, because in fact the problem has not trivial resolution. How is it possible to measure the true flow from a Stream or a Vortech?

We see therefore this and and other issues, commenting on the cited article.

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How to take picture of our aquarium: photography course part II – The Pictures

After the great success of the previous section that talked about the general theory of photography and the basics to get great photos, and I recommend you to read if you had not yet done to better understand what I write in this article (you can do so by clicking here) I’m going to talk strictly about how to get good photos in aquarium, with many practical examples.

The photo is of the beautiful tank of Paolo Marzocchi

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How to take picture of our aquarium: photography course part I

During my visit to the eighth edition of Salento Aquarium, I did a lesson on a subject that I really like “Aquarium, how taking pictures“, and are therefore here, as promised, to propose a mini-course as a guideline how to photograph in the aquarium, getting the best with our equipment, obviously the course is open to all, since most of what is written applies to any photographic genre, even though the examples will focus on the photographs in the aquarium.

I hope that the course will be useful and that you enjoy reading it, and if you have any requests please leave your comments.

This is the first part that covers the basics of photography, the choice of lenses and the setting of the machine, the second part will address specifically the photographs in the aquarium, going into the details of how to photograph aquariums, fish and corals , and the last part will cover instead the development of the digital negative, the RAW file.

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How to prepare our aquarium in case of absence

It’s a fact that all aquarists, sooner or later, take a holiday, maybe just going to immerse themselves in those fabulous tropical seas where taking inspiration for their beautiful aquariums.

But when we go on vacation our aquarium is all alone, waiting for our return.

All the time that the aquarium will be alone, it will be once infinitely long and infinitely dangerous. As Murphy’s Law teaches, if something can go wrong will do so inthe  worst time and in the worst way. And with many years of aquarium on the back I can say that I’ve seen that everything can happen.

Above you can see how my tank was reduced after 8 days of absence for a trip

To avoid unpleasant surprises, we must attend carefully to everything, even if the problem could still be lurking, regardless of our gigantic efforts.

So let us analyze the problem from all angles.

1. Fish welfare
2. Corals welfare
3. Tank welfare
4. Coverage in case of electrical blackout, both short-and long-term
5. Methods to keep track of what happens in the aquarium at all times
6. Summarize the tasks of our substitute

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Interzoo 2010 Nürnberg: Elos News

Also this year I will begin my description of Interzoo 2010 at Nuremberg starting from Elos, as was done for the last Interzoo 2008, this is due to a long time past into the Italian stand, both for the many new features, as always Elos is usual to disclose them during this very important International Fair.

This year’s Elos wanted to surprise us with a space stand, lit with many new solutions led, and that gave a characteristic blue light to the whole complex. Under the “passage” there were two beautiful tanks, one fresh water and one marina, as well as skimmers and calcium reactors as a corollary. Outside instead are placed two rows of tanks on the right the new fantastic Elos Midi, and to the left the SystemMini with a juicy news represented in the new Paludarium. All around the many novelties.

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Salento Aquarium – 8° edition – 2010 april 16/18 – Reportage

As anticipated by now over a month ago, I was hosted in Lecce during the event “Salento Aquariums” , where I gave a lecture entitled “Aquarium, how taking pictures“, the presentation will be online soon for free consultation.

In this adventure, I was accompanied by Zanna Bianca, and I have also quote the legendary Maurizio Quarta, our guide for Lecce and Salento Aquariums, which has made us feel at ease and accompanied us inside of a culinary journey and showed us many fascinating sides of Lecce. Thanks Maurizio.

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The project goes on: live rocks

Yes the lighting system isn’t ready, because a part of it, one of the HQi, has been serving the other tank in the attic, feature actually quite comfortable in these cases.

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