New Blog 1: October 2012

Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Cat Shark

While there are no assurances of absolute safety in the ocean, statistical safety is always on your side. Given the number of swimmers, surfers, floaters, skiers, and other bathers in the oceans of the world at any given time compared to the actual number of shark attacks in those same waters, there is relatively little risk of shark attack in being in the waters of our oceans. I know that this is little comfort to those of you that are afraid of sharks or the ocean. I hope that fear will not stop you from enjoying our beaches.

Cat Shark

Cavefish

Borowsky and his assistants descended into the caves and fished out different blind populations to cross in the lab. If the fish had the same developmental mutations, the researchers reckoned they would produce blind offspring. Instead, the experiment produced a number of fry with functioning eyes; in the most successful pairing, 40% of hybrid fry could see. The results suggest fish from different caves have mutations that don't overlap.

Cavefish

Celebes Rainbowfish

Celebes Rainbowfish reach lengths of up to three inches (7.5 cm) as adults. They are slow-growing fish, and take at least seven or eight months to attain full size. If you decide to breed these fish, you should set up a separate breeding aquarium filled with many salt-tolerant fine-leafed plants such as Cabomba, Milfoil, Riccia and Java Moss. The parents will scatter roughly 50-70 relatively large eggs throughout the plant leaves — and will then begin enthusiastically eating them if not removed quickly. The eggs hatch within seven days and the surprisingly tiny fry (considering the relatively large egg size) hang around and eat from the water’s surface. The young fish usually are large enough to add to the main school by the time they are five months old.

Celebes Rainbowfish

Central Mudminnow

Upper part of the body is olive-brown in color, mottled throughout, with up to 14 indistinct brown vertical bars on the sides and a prominent dark vertical bar located at the base of the tail, belly is yellow to white and fins are brownish, large scales, can tolerate low oxygen levels

Central Mudminnow

Chain Pickerel

Mercury is a chemical element, symbol Hg, atomic number 80 on the periodic table, commonly called quicksilver, and the only metal that is liquid at room temperature. Mercury is a heavy, silvery liquid metal, which is very dense, but has a high surface tension, causing it to form tiny perfect spheres in the pores of rocks wherein it's found. Mercury is one of the few elements that do not break down.

Chain Pickerel

Channel Catfish

This book is a single convenient source of information that covers priority areas of research in channel catfish aquaculture. Recent Developments in Catfish Aquaculture compiles some of the latest research in the field as presented at the Catfish Research Symposium. The editors present a diverse collection of chapters that illustrates recent research efforts in catfish culture and shows the scope of research that is being conducted in nutrition, genetics, water quality management, economics, fish health, and pond production systems.

Channel Catfish

Char

The god is dying. Appealing to the dying god, sacrificing to help him, the people find in his demise a source of strength and purification and rejuvenation. The dying god, and by extension, those who are sacrificed in his cause, perform the function of scapegoat. Frazer (1955) illuminates the cultural. roots of this notion, the source of its fascination to us. It was the Aztecs, Frazer says, who raised this practice to its extreme, who sacrificed the lives of multitudes, especially young people, in an effort to keep their gods young and vital

Char