4-H Marine Aquarium Adult Partner Guide

Praziquantel degradation in marine aquarium water

Praziquantel (PZQ) is a drug commonly utilized to treat both human schistosomiasis and some parasitic infections and infestations in animals. In the aquarium industry, PZQ can be administered in a "bath" to treat the presence of ectoparasites on both the gills and skin of fish and elasmobranchs. In order to fully treat an infestation, the bath treatment has to maintain therapeutic levels of PZQ...

Expanding our understanding of the trade in marine aquarium animals

The trade of live marine animals for home and public aquaria has grown into a major global industry. Millions of marine fishes and invertebrates are removed from coral reefs and associated habitats each year. The majority are imported into the United States, with the remainder sent to Europe, Japan, and a handful of other countries. Despite the recent growth and diversification of the aquarium ...

H ETS User Guide –

The Heterogeneous Tool Set (HETS) is the main analysis tool for the specification language heterogeneous CASL. Heterogeneous CASL (HETCASL) combines the specification language CASL [6, 28] with CASL extensions and sublanguages, as well as completely different logics and even programming languages such as Haskell. HETCASL (see Fig. 1 for a simple subset) extends the structuring mechanisms of CAS...

The guide of Marine Frequency Converters

Managing the Marine Aquarium Trade: Revealing the Data Gaps Using Ornamental Polychaetes

The marine aquarium industry has great potential to generate jobs in low-income coastal communities creating incentives for the maintenance of a healthy coral reef, if effectively managed. In the absence of current monitoring or legislation to govern the trade, baseline information regarding the species, number and source location of animals traded is missing despite being critical for its succ...