by Jay Hemdal | Feb 27, 2011 | AMAZONAS - James Lawrence, CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
May 2 – 6 Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center This RAW meeting will likely be the premier event for public aquarists in North America for 2011. http://www.rawconference.org/ History of RAW: The Regional Aquatics Workshop held its first official meeting in...
by Jay Hemdal | Dec 3, 2010 | AMAZONAS - Jay Hemdal, CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Freshwater, Marine
Making the rounds of the interwebs last week was the video from a Charlie Chaplin film from 1928 apparently showing an elderly women walking along talking into a cell phone: Dubbed the “time traveler cell phone”, people seriously feel that this clip shows something...
by Jay Hemdal | Dec 4, 2009 | AMAZONAS - Jay Hemdal, CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Freshwater, Marine
I have been active in various hobbyist forums since I was a Sysop for Compuserve’s FISHNET back in the mid-1980’s. While my posts from that era have evaporated into the ether, some of my more recent posts, (aside from hopefully being more accurate than 25...
by Jay Hemdal | Aug 21, 2009 | CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Marine
I first raised clownfish when I worked for the Shedd Aquarium back around 1986. Myself and another aquarist worked on raising some skunk clownfish, but since we did not have rotifers, we used “algae squeezings” basically microbes that we isolated from algal mats...
by Jay Hemdal | Jul 17, 2009 | AMAZONAS - Jay Hemdal, CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Freshwater, Marine
This installment informally ties together three previous blog entries: photography, fish size estimation and the HLLE project. Much public aquarium work operates in this fashion, many different small topics and projects may be tightly woven together: While attending a...
by Jay Hemdal | May 16, 2009 | AMAZONAS - Jay Hemdal, CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Freshwater, Marine
Public aquarists often have difficulty photographing their exhibits. Not only do they have the same problems as home aquarists (flash reflection off the glass, issues with white balance, fast moving fish, etc.) they have the added distortion caused by thicker viewing...
