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Doubling Down on Detritus…Again!

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It’s my Fault..

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A Shot at “Immortality?”

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In Situ…

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Becoming an “Operator.”

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The Unexpected.

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The “Light Stuff”

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The “P” Word…

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The “Stuff” That’s in The Water…

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Food From Above, Below, and Within…Natural Foods Revisited…

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Feedback From Our Aquariums…

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Beyond “Realism”- Or, How Scott can get Multiple Hobby Groups to Hate Me in One Episode!

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What are We Doing Here? Well, I’ll Tell You…!

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Is It The “Golden Age” of the Aquarium Hobby?

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Is That Fish REALLY “Difficult” to Keep, Or Do we Just Need to Create The right Environment for it?

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Keeping a Good Thing Going: The Art and Science of Botanical Method Aquarium Maintenance

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Reefing Like it’s 1999- My Continuous Journey into Alternative Substrates!

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Your Aquarium isn’t “Dirty”- It Just Has “Flavor.”

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Fish Stories

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Use What You’ve Got!

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The Living Foundation: Rethinking Substrates in the Reef Aquarium, While Rediscovering Myself…

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The Nursery You Didn’t Build: Raising fry With The Botanical Method

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Free Your Mind and the Detritus Will Follow…

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Cracks in The Pavement: The Allure of Ecological Niches in the Botanical Method Aquarium

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Natural “Architecture”: Letting Botanicals Do The Work!

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Chasing the GOAT

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Curator. Botanical Method Aquarium Geek. Reefer. They’re All Sort of The Same!

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It Must be the Water!!

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The Hobby is not THAT difficult. But it’s not simple.

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Any Way You Want It

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Slipping Through The Seasons…

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Terroir…Nature’s Secret? Or, The Key to EVERYTHING?

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Just Add Salt!

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Getting Away With It…Or Not!

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The thrill of doing…Nothing!

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The continuing allure of “blackwater livebearers”- if they exist, that is!

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The Romance of the Aquarium Hobby

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When is Enough, “Enough?”

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The journey is the fun part…

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Changing Course or Staying Put?

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Tanks…A LOT

42

“Lessons learned on the road to global domination…”

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Where the magic lies…

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Streaming along…

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Ecology First.

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The Risk of the New?

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Like What Nature Does

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It’s not “dirty”- it’s Perfect!

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IS bigger “better?”

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The Change is Here..

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What we do is cool.

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A big idea for small fishes?

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Keeeping a good thing going: Thoughts on Long Term Management of Botanical Method Aquariums

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Wherever Nature Takes Us…

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Beyond the “sexy looks”…again!

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Who’s accommodating who?

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“Project 18”: The Turning Point

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A Steady diet of…

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The “Acid Trip”

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"The Tint" Special Edition with Mark Chen of Nature Design Studio- "The Ultimate Beauty Resides in Nature"

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Letting Nature Sort it Out

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More wood in our aquariums? Why not?

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Fools rush in…

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Origins and Evolutions…And You.

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Of Mangroves and Macroalgae with Tyler Wells (aka "Inland Reef")- EXTENDED SPECIAL EPISODE!

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It’s a “Jungle” in There! (And What’s Wrong With THAT?)

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Existential Crises… of My Own Making?

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Past Perfect. Future Fantastic!

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The Wisdom of the Ages

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Events which Shape Us

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Considering the “a biological Operating System” of our Aquariums…

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The “Expectation Refresher”- Yet Again…

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Good Clean Fun?

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Tempting Fate…Rolling the Dice..Trying to Beat the Rare “Sure Things” in our Hobby!

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“Attitude Adjustments?”

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Power from the Palms!

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Constantly Changing. Persistently Evolving.

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My confusing delusional obsession…

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The Intersection of Function, Form…and “Weird” Ideas…

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Just…Don’t…

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Steps along the way…

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Yes, you can! But, should you?

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Call it what you want to Call It…

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So, you’re thinking of starting a reef tank? Can we talk first?

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More than just the obvious…

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“Fixes” for “Problems” that are Not Problems!

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The Complexity of making the Hobby “Simple”

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Playing with the Dynamics of Botanical Method Aquariums

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Nature… Your Partner

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Grand experiments, revisited. Ideas which create “unlocks…”

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One fish, two fish…Or, is that fishes?

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The benefits of aquarium “Cross Training”

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Why we question things…

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Thwarting a regrettable hobby “trend…”

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Stumbling in the dark: Facing our fears while learning the ways of “blackwater!”

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The burden of knowing “too much?”

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The man who Brought Darkness Into the Land- And What We Can Learn From Him!

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Focusing…and Freaking Out! Or not.

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“Environmental impacts” and Botanicals

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Wake me up before you “Oto”- The case for caution with a so-called “algae eater…”