vortech-pump-controllers-1 A trip down memory lane of Ecotech Marine VorTech pump controllers As Ecotech Marine celebrates ten years of business in the reef aquarium scene, I am reminded of how I came to know the once scrappy three young founders Tim, Pat, Justin and first employee Mark. The company cut its teeth on reef tank product engineering with a magnetically stirred kalk stirrer with a built in
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Hands on with Ocean Nutrition Sep-Art Artemia System

Canthigaster tyleri is the clown trigger of tobies

More and more, amazing species of tobies like this Canthigaster tyleri are coming to light giving us more reasons to love the colorful diversity of sharpnose puffers. Tyler’s toby is a deepwater reef fish from the Indian Ocean which clearly bears some close resemblance with the more commonly seen leopard toby, Canthigaster leoparda. Like the Read More

Canthigaster criobe is a stunning new toby sharpnose puffer from French Polynesia

Canthigaster criobe is the new species of toby (or dwarf puffer) which has recently been described from the Gambier Archipelago, French Polynesia, in the heart of the South Pacific Ocean. There are well over 30 species of Canthigaster toby pufferfish, most of which have a primarily spotted pattern, sometime with a little bit of striping but Canthigaster criobe Read More

The Bennette’s Toby is a great and nifty little bobbit worm hunter

Puffers, tobies and triggerfishes are well known for their intelligence and invertebrate hunting skills. This video shows a trio of Canthigester bennetti ganging up on what seems to be a bobbit worm. Like a hovering pack of wolves in slow mo, these cute little tobies seem to enjoy their worm and even managed to attract Read More