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The Tint

"The Tint" is a podcast dedicated to lovers of natural aquariums. A place to discuss unusual aquarium concepts and ideas; a jumping-off point at the aquarium hobby's "bleeding edge." Join us for inspiration, ideas, and a sometimes provocative point of view!

The Romance of the Aquarium Hobby

10 mins; December 05, 2023

When is Enough, “Enough?”

23 mins; October 30, 2023

The journey is the fun part…

23 mins; October 30, 2023

Changing Course or Staying Put?

12 mins; October 17, 2023

Tanks…A LOT

21 mins; October 10, 2023

“Lessons learned on the road to global domination…”

19 mins; October 10, 2023

Where the magic lies…

18 mins; October 04, 2023

Streaming along…

13 mins; October 03, 2023

Ecology First.

16 mins; September 27, 2023

The Risk of the New?

19 mins; September 25, 2023

Like What Nature Does

17 mins; September 18, 2023

It’s not “dirty”- it’s Perfect!

17 mins; September 13, 2023

IS bigger “better?”

10 mins; September 13, 2023

The Change is Here..

26 mins; September 11, 2023

What we do is cool.

30 mins; September 05, 2023

A big idea for small fishes?

16 mins; September 01, 2023

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

17 mins; August 25, 2023

Wherever Nature Takes Us…

10 mins; August 22, 2023

Beyond the “sexy looks”…again!

12 mins; August 17, 2023

Who’s accommodating who?

11 mins; August 12, 2023

“Project 18”: The Turning Point

17 mins; August 11, 2023

A Steady diet of…

20 mins; August 10, 2023

The “Acid Trip”

12 mins; July 28, 2023

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

91 hours 24 mins; July 27, 2023

Letting Nature Sort it Out

11 mins; July 25, 2023

More wood in our aquariums? Why not?

9 mins; July 25, 2023

Fools rush in…

17 mins; July 20, 2023

Origins and Evolutions…And You.

10 mins; July 19, 2023

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

84 hours 45 mins; July 11, 2023

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

10 mins; July 11, 2023

Existential Crises… of My Own Making?

7 mins; July 11, 2023

Past Perfect. Future Fantastic!

13 mins; July 09, 2023

The Wisdom of the Ages

11 mins; July 09, 2023

Events which Shape Us

8 mins; July 08, 2023

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

9 mins; July 08, 2023

The “Expectation Refresher”- Yet Again…

11 mins; July 07, 2023

Good Clean Fun?

9 mins; July 07, 2023

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

8 mins; July 06, 2023

“Attitude Adjustments?”

13 mins; July 06, 2023

Power from the Palms!

16 mins; July 05, 2023

Constantly Changing. Persistently Evolving.

25 mins; July 05, 2023

My confusing delusional obsession…

12 mins; July 04, 2023

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

15 mins; July 03, 2023

Just…Don’t…

15 mins; July 02, 2023

Steps along the way…

7 mins; July 01, 2023

Yes, you can! But, should you?

8 mins; June 30, 2023

Call it what you want to Call It…

7 mins; June 30, 2023

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

12 mins; June 29, 2023

More than just the obvious…

12 mins; June 29, 2023

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

13 mins; June 28, 2023

The Complexity of making the Hobby “Simple”

10 mins; June 28, 2023

Playing with the Dynamics of Botanical Method Aquariums

12 mins; June 27, 2023

Nature… Your Partner

9 mins; June 27, 2023

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

21 mins; June 26, 2023

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

9 mins; June 24, 2023

The benefits of aquarium “Cross Training”

11 mins; June 24, 2023

Why we question things…

9 mins; June 23, 2023

Thwarting a regrettable hobby “trend…”

21 mins; June 22, 2023

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

12 mins; June 21, 2023

The burden of knowing “too much?”

8 mins; June 21, 2023

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

9 mins; June 21, 2023

Focusing…and Freaking Out! Or not.

7 mins; June 20, 2023

“Environmental impacts” and Botanicals

11 mins; June 19, 2023

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

9 mins; June 19, 2023

Where DO all of the fishes go?

7 mins; June 19, 2023

A slightly salty obsession of mine…

11 mins; June 17, 2023

Leaving safe harbor…

6 mins; June 17, 2023

A reasonable facsimile, indeed!

13 mins; June 17, 2023

Treasuring every fish…

14 mins; June 17, 2023

Bringing it home?

7 mins; June 16, 2023

Bringin’ it home.. deeper dives into creating for functionally realistic aquariums…

13 mins; June 15, 2023

Disrupting the Fish Food game.. A Plea to Budding Aquarium Industry Entrepreneurs!

12 mins; June 15, 2023

Yay! You just purchased some new fishes! Now what? Confessions of a Traumatized Fish Geek…

6 mins; June 15, 2023

Oh, those stupid names…A little story from Tannin’s history…

11 mins; June 15, 2023

Full stop? Or just a little detour?

9 mins; June 14, 2023

My greatest mistake?

10 mins; June 14, 2023

This is how I do it ( Pt.3) : Establishing a botanical method aquarium- mindset and methodology

19 mins; June 13, 2023

Green Meets Brown.

16 mins; June 12, 2023

Botanicals: “Classified”

17 mins; June 07, 2023

Serendipitous Spawning? Or, simply approaching fish breeding from a different angle?

17 mins; June 06, 2023

Only the bold move forward.

10 mins; June 01, 2023

Fishing…

9 mins; June 01, 2023

A quick thought for rainy days.

4 mins; May 31, 2023

What’s the rush?

12 mins; May 31, 2023

“Operating” your botanical method aquarium to simulate seasons…an idea whose time has come?

26 mins; May 30, 2023

Working the web of life…

11 mins; May 27, 2023

Thinking like a fish; thinking about fishes…

18 mins; May 25, 2023

Let’s hear it for… algae!

10 mins; May 23, 2023

When we start…

23 mins; May 18, 2023

Something old. Something new. Something…Gone.

24 mins; May 16, 2023

The”rock question” again!

12 mins; May 11, 2023

“Opportunistic Habitats”

11 mins; May 11, 2023

How much of…What? The befits and pitfalls of “speculative biochemistry”

15 mins; May 09, 2023

Set and Forget?

12 mins; May 04, 2023

A return to the flooded forest: A review of the “Urban Igapo” approach

16 mins; May 03, 2023

A “Shot across the bow..”

9 mins; May 03, 2023

We “wood” eat it if we could!

11 mins; May 03, 2023

In the mix…

17 mins; April 27, 2023

Shattering a Botanical “Myth”- and Shaping The Future…

24 mins; April 19, 2023

It’s all gonna be okay… With the amazing Jennifer Williams!

73 hours 27 mins; March 17, 2023

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