Recent content by Healinbear

Heard on NPR the other day that they have started teaching media savviness to children. What a great idea. The story did mention how biased the children had become by allowing them to see what could be done with digital "enhancement". These children when asked to estimate what number of photos...

Strange I should see this message. I live in the KC area and one of the local suppliers for the Petcos around here demands that his fish are NOT floated. He sells mainly freshwater fish mind you. As I was told he refuses to supply the petcos if they float the bags. His rationale? Well his...

I don't know if this will be any use to you or not, but here are a few things I've learned about using my RO system in an apartment. I live on the second floor above the office. One day the manager calls and asks if I'm having a leak in my bathroom. I check, no problem. Satisfied she hangs up...

There are of course several types of coral that prefer to rest in substrate only. There are also many species of anemones that prefer this as well. So in a way there may be a need to have a DSB only tank if you were attempting to create an environment for such a group of animals. I also think...

I've had a lightly tinted green goniapora which I inherited from its owener of three years. Though he says that it has been slowly retracting, he had not fed his tank for two years... Yeah, that's right nothing, only water changes. He ran the tank with no skimmer, which I continue to do. So I...