The Red Sea is one of the most iconic regions for marine life and home to an amazing abundance and diversity of reef fish and corals. While we can enjoy a limited amount of sustainably collected fish from the region, all other marine life is banned from harvesting for ornamental aquariums. No worries because a Read More

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Used to be that a nice Blastomussa coral was the tippy top of the shelf for LPS corals that you could get for your “Mini Reef” aquarium. A nice Blasto represented the centerpiece coral in many people’s coral collection, almost always a Blastomussa wellsi since the fluted Blastomussa merleti was extremely rarely imported from the wild. Read More

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The CAD Lights Pipeless skimmer is one of the more unique and unusual protein skimmer designs to surface in quite some time. Although we’ve known about the Pipeless for some a little while it’s only now that we have uncovered how the new skimming creation from CAD Lights performs this feat. Before even seeing it we mostly assumed Read More

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The RLSS DB10i protein skimmer outed a couple weeks ago with that sweet Waveline DC 5000 water pump mounted in the body made its first public appearance in Dallas nearly two weeks ago. If there was a single product at MACNA which most deserved to have its moving parts documented in video the RLSS DB10i cone Read More

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He may be fictitious but we already love the character that is featured in the new commercial for Velveeta Mac’n Cheese. Their aquarium store guy won’t sell you a labradoodle and he won’t let you have just any fish you want. Exacting standards and a high level of scrutiny ensures that the OCD /retentive Aquarium Store Read More

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Backbone or no backbone, there’s no denying that in this scenario the cephalopod is clearly the superior evolved higher creature. The octopus starring in the video came up on a baited jar set down by marine scientists who were filming the abundance of fish who came up to investigate the smell of the bait. Several Read More

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Combine a superb coral retailer such as Vivid Aquariums with someone with a genuine interest in aquariums and deep enough pockets to afford the top of the line livestock and equipment, and you got an awesome aquarium in the making. Dave of Vivid Aquariums maintains this system for one of his clients, but for those Read More

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The author of this video thought they were just filming the beautiful motion of a manta ray swimming, gliding through Indonesian waters. But what we see in this video is an incredible tour of Bali where coral cover is pretty substantial but the hard bottom doesn’t exactly seem to be reefal in nature. That is, Read More

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Sea Spiders are widespread in the ocean and on coral reefs yet we hardly, almost never, encounter them in our reef aquariums. We can think of just a couple of times seeing the lone sea spider walking along some fresh live rock and at least one case where an aquarist had an infestation of them which was Read More

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We tend to think of small reef fish living in a wide range of habitats but some species of Eviota and Trimma are so small that they can be at home on other reef creatures that are small to us. Case in point is this tiny goby, possibly an Eviota, hitching a ride on this gorgeous Read More

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