It is a three day weekend here in the States as we get set for Labor Day weekend and here are a handful of fun Friday Smorgasbord tidbits to start off your weekend. Russian biologist and photographer Alexander Semenov has captured some stunning underwater images and this series of the lion’s mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) Read More

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Nearly two years ago when MACNA was held in beautiful Orlando Florida, we had the good fortune to visit a gorgeous aquarium store called Ocean Blue Aquarium. The newly renovated store feature an impeccable layout of fish, corals and dry goods with a good balance of choice livestock and newly released products. With a three-day weekend of Read More

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Anyone can take videos of freshly collected corals but for us, there’s a distinct attraction that we hold towards corals that corals that are looking great, and appear to have been settled into captive life for a long time. You know what we’re talking about, when you walk into the LFS and you see some Read More

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The guys at Bulk Reef Supply have done quite an in-depth and impressive video review of the Vertex Illumina LED fixture. Coming in at over 20 minutes this video really goes through the entire fixture in detail covering PAR readings, LED choices, programming features, build quality and even if the fixture gains the all-important “wife Read More

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We normally wouldn’t share stories about dolphins, manatees, sea turtles or mermaids but this amazing video tells an incredible story. In the short span of three and a half minutes, about 30 dolphins nearly strand themselves Arraial do Cabo in Brazil which just so happened to have about as many empathetic primates standing around who understood Read More

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The Super Mario aquarium is what you get when you mix aquarium creativity with a love of video games and the world’s best toy building blocks, LEGOs! This faithful recreation of Super Mario Bros. 1 in a 55 gallon aquarium features pipes, a goomba, magic mushroom, turtle, Mario, the flagpole and of course the castle. Read More

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This mini reef aquarium lighted by 3 x Radion XR30w and using ZEOvit for management of nutrients and elements is a masterpiece of fine coral reefscaping. Using a variety of SPS corals with complimentary colors and contrasting shapes suggests that this pair of bommies could easily be found in the wild. Once you get past Read More

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You’ve seen the DSPS tank from Thailand a myriad of times; in the beginning and a little bit further along. Now that Chngchai’s reef tank has been coming along for a while now, this top down video of the reef and its inhabitants couldn’t have come at a better time. A wealth of amazing, beautiful and Read More

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The Lightning Maroon Clownfish has not spawned. While the image above (and video below)  shows the Lightning Maroon and her mate tending a nest of eggs on a tile, those are NOT their eggs.  This technique has been called by some (including Mitch May, possibly the technique’s originator) as a “Double Down”.  The premise – take Read More

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Marine Depot sells pretty good marine aquarium goods, especially when it comes to LED lights. So imagine how our attention piqued when we saw that the Depot had uploaded a new video entitled simply “New LED Light”. Curiously, this video was initially titled ‘tuna-blue.mov’ and it shows the light on a reef aquarium with two Read More

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