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Bob Fenner



Bob Fenner is a lifelong aquarist with an active and continuing involvement in the academic, journalistic, trade, and hobbyist sides of aquarium keeping. He is a former marine science and aquariology instructor at the University of California and in the California State University system.

Bob is the author of The Conscientious Marine Aquarist and has been a regular contributor to a number of aquarium publications, including ...

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Scott Fellman

A little about Scott: My name is Scott Fellman, and I’m the consummate “fish nerd”! I bleed saltwater! And yes, I think there’s a lot of freshwater in there, too!

Much of my life centers around tweaking protein skimmers, scraping algae, cleaning up spills, or figuring out how to unglue ...

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Terence Fugazzi

Terence hails from Salt Lake City, Utah where he has worked as a technology marketing consultant and most recently taken on the position of VP Sales and Marketing for Neptune Systems. A technology geek at heart, Terence is a relatively new ...

So this story really touched my heart when it broke recently on Facebook. Brian Bunne Broughten of Advanced Aquarium Service in Minnesota had a client whose pet "Bubba" needed emergency care. The fish had ingested a clam, and the shell was trapped within Bubba's digestive system intact and still hinged. The fish grew lethargic, stopped eating and also no longer expel waste for too long.

The first step was to get the fish x-rayed to see what was going on.
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It isn't often that I see an article that I want to repost as much as this one. When I was a little boy, my dad had his aquariums. It was about fish, anemones, octopus, but not live corals. In 1998 when I decided to enjoy this hobby, my resource was the local fish store. I bought some 'live' rock and some clownfish, as well as a number of inverts. In 2002, I went to my first MACNA and really learned about keeping corals alive, and the rest is history.

As hobbyists, we may have ...