Coral Rekindling Venus is a project to display coral reefs and marine life at planetariums, bringing the experience of marine life cinematography to a whole new level. The full-dome digital planetarium motion picture will feature a wide array of stunning videography including images contributed by Coral Morphologic, and will be projected on the fulldomes of planetariums. The [...]
The Transformer LED from SMD Aquaristik is a fixture that is externally completely constumizable to your taste. SMD Aquaristik is a German LED light manufacturer, and probably was one of the first manufacturers to use RGB multichip LED in its lights. It’s been a while since we’ve covered SMD Aquaristik fixtures, but the German manufacturer hasn’t exactly [...]
This 1350 gallon reef aquarium owned by Peter Hyne is a beautiful system and well designed jumbo reef aquarium. Calling the system the “tank of the four masters” is a bit presumptuous, but in the end it doesn’t really matter. The tank is stunning and that is all what really counts. The 1350 gallon reef [...]
Red disc corals are hot, and red Cycloseris are even hotter. It’s been a while since we saw a good killer red Cycloseris so you can imagine our reaction when we heard that not one, but two red Cycloseris showed up at Happy Coral. Although these red Cycloseris specimens may not be as bright as the 2009 [...]
The BlueNova from StarkLED is an interesting new LED light with built wireless capability and control. StarkLED is a company completely new to the LED game, but feature wise they’ve seem to have hit the nail right on the head. These 10 x 6 x 2 inch fixtures feature three LED arrays with a total [...]
Micro-Reef is an acrylic aquarium manufacturer that up until recently only offered high quality custom nano aquariums. Now they are releasing an out of the box pico reefsysem. With a coldwater livestock retailer just opened up, they couldn’t have picked better timing. Their coldwater pico reef is claimed to be “the worlds smallest temperate reef [...]
We all know that there is more to our oceans than what we can see with the naked eye, with strange zooplankton, phytoplankton and other bizarre creatures dominate the microscopic world. Yet footage of these animals still doesn’t cease to amaze us. In this TEDed video marine biologist Tierney Thys takes us through the incredible [...]
Tube anemones are absolutely stunning non-photosynthetic animals, and striped ones are even cooler. Add two colors into the mix and you end up with the beauty currently up on Live Aquaria’s Diver’s Den. This specimen has been the third “rainbow” tube anemone up on Divers Den, the previous two rainbow specimens featured a orange mouth [...]
When most of us think of New Zealand, rolling hills and eucalyptus trees come to mind. It turns out the sea life in New Zealand is actually also quite impressive. This 200 gallon Coldwater Reef from New Zealand is filled to the notch with livestock collected off the coast of New Zealand and is just [...]
Cold water aquariums are just plain awesome, and have always captured our hearts in the past. Steve Weast’s 400 gallon cold water reef is just simply spectacular, and the Scandinavian reefs we covered were stunning as well. Now Coldwater Marine Aquatics is the first to actually sell some of these amazing animals, something which the [...]
