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Whether you are a beginner or advanced aquarist, you share the dream of a perfect underwater landscape in your home. And this event is for you.

You may find the differences that can arise when measuring the temperature with different measuring instruments and methods, confusing. Most people tend to trust a digital device more than an analog device. Is this justified?

You probably had this the last time you set up an aquarium. "Sand or gravel?” you wondered. “Or maybe soil? Or there’s that coarse volcanic rock?”

When is the next workshop about aquarium technology, pond care or terrarium lighting taking place near you? What are the current trends?

During the JBL shark workshop in the Bahamas, Bresser Action cameras were used to shoot footage that National Geographic found so exciting, they’ve made a short film.

Do not allow the water the live food comes in to enter your aquarium. It may be contaminated with harmful substances, germs and medication.

If you have ever touched an aquarium heater when it’s on, you’ll know not to do it again! Yet fish, especially sucker catfish and sucking barbs, have a habit of hanging on to heaters.

You may well have asked yourself this year why algae suddenly appear in spring even though you have barely fed your fish yet. It was still cold and the sun had only just begun to shine a little stronger. The reason for it is last year’s “waste” still lying on the bottom of the pond.

In a normally planted aquarium with active filtering, the water surface movement and oxygen production from the photosynthesis of the aquatic plants is sufficient and an additional oxygen supply is not generally needed.

Dear friends of JBL, all the JBL team and I wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.