Facts About Groundwater

Total dissolved solids (TDS) refers to the quantity of dissolved solids (including minerals, salts or metals) in the aquarium water. In other words, it is all of the organic and inorganic matter that is dissolved in our aquarium water.  It is a very useful tool for any shrimp keeper. Because it can be used as a way of deciding on the frequency of when it is time to do a water change. The reason why we need to know and should care about TDS, because all these solids in our tanks can caus

General Hardness (GH or Total Hardness) is an important water parameter to shrimp keeping and breeding. Unfortunately, Carbonate Hardness (KH) and General Hardness (GH) are commonly confused. General Hardness (GH) represents the overall concentration of salts (calcium, magnesium, iron, etc.) but does not identify which of these elements is/are the source of hardness. While Carbonate Hardness indicates the quantity of base present in water – bicarbonates, carbonates, phosphates, hydroxi

By Doug Ottinger – Do chickens have tonsils? Can chickens get rabies? How do ducks mate? Do questions about these facts about chickens ever keep you up awake at night? If so, this article will hopefully answer these questions and give you some bits of trivia and facts about chickens and ducks to share. Let’s look at some lesser-known facts about chickens. 1. Do Chickens Have Tonsils? Chickens have tonsils, but they are not found where yours and mine are found. Chickens and most other

There are a few common misconceptions about fertilized eggs that I hope to clear up in this article, but first, it is important to understand the differences between fertilized and unfertilized eggs as well as incubated and un-incubated fertilized eggs. UNFERTILIZED EGGS  A hen must mate with a rooster in order for her egg to contain both the male and female genetic material necessary to create an embryo inside the egg. An unfertilized egg contains only the hen̵