Bad Things We Add to Our Tanks
As St. Bernard wrote “The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions”. With the meaning of this is that we often do things with the best of intentions, but invaria…
There’s A Tang Party At Jason Fox’s House!
A few weeks ago I travelled to Maryland right before Reefapalooza New York specifically to take a detour at the coral mecca of Jason Fox Signature Corals. I’ll be getting to the corals in due ti…
All Clear Tubing Is The Most Baller Way To Plumb A Tank
There’s something about a well engineered and neatly plumbed high tech aquarium which is hypnotizing to look at. We’ve seen great setups using regular PVC, heavy duty schedule 40 PVC, and …
Coral Bleaching On The Great Barrier Reef Is Just A Conspiracy (NSFW)
Of course coral bleaching and climate change are real, but in this era of post truth, and the new “normal”, the political arena has turned into a full on circus. Everyday there’s som…
Corals As Colorful As This Lobophyllia Shouldn’t Exist!
You know we’ve covered our fair share of sensational corals in our many years of blogging but there’s always a coral out there which is ready to raise the bar and blow our minds. The …
Sanjay Joshi’s Nano Reef Tank Breaks All The Rules (Video)
Before going to Reefapalooza NY from Denver earlier this summer, you could say I took a slight detour to Maryland and then the State College Pennsylvania before heading to the big show. The reef …
An Oldie But A Goodie: Summer Doldrums At The Local Fish Store
It’s that time of year when dust is settling at the LFS, so take in a few thoughts for what the professional fish-slingers and coral fraggers can do to be ready for the onset of the Fall reefing…
Scitronix Releases Tantalizing Teaser Video Of Their LittleBlue Controller
Austrian hardware manufacturer Scitronix is a new company that has ambitious goals in the aquarium hobby. In addition to developing a sophisticated LED striplight and modular fixture, Scitronix is get…
Sicce’s Forthcoming Smart Pumps Will Have Net-Connected Features!
We’ve been super excited for the forthcoming release of the new Sicce Smart DC controllable water pumps since their introduction last year. We’re now on the cusp of the release of Sicce…
RVS Fishworld Continues To Train Whole Communities Of Net-Caught Aquarium Fisherman
Over the years a lot of ink has been spilled about cyanide-caught fish, and a lot of lip service has been paid to catching ornamental fish using nets. Talk is cheap and real action is expensive, …
Chasing Coral Review: This Very Important Film Was Way Overdue!
Chasing Coral is a profound documentary that has been a long time in the making. Made by the crew that brought us Chasing Ice, the team at Exposure Labs went to the ends of the earth to document the a…
Scientists reanimate frozen fish embryos with gold, antifreeze and lasers
It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie (or a strange MacGyver episode), but scientists have developed a way to reanimate frozen fish embryos using a combination of lasers, gold particles, and …
Bad Things We Add to Our Tanks
As St. Bernard wrote “The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions”. With the meaning of this is that we often …
Take A Look At The Reef Tank Of An Australian Professional
Many aquarium professionals who either run a fish store or do aquarium service and maintenance, generally don’t have much of a personal fish tan…
Not All Fish Are Cultured Equally
By: Michael Judson Ever since “captive bred” labels started popping up all over clownfish tanks, captive breeding has remained one of the flagshi…
Focustronic Wants To Change The Way We Think About Lighting
Over the years the aquarium hobby has seen a number of drastic changes in ideology. Wet/dry filters transformed how we think about biological filtrati…
All new Cobalt Mini MJ pumps announced
Cobalt Aquatics announced they are looking back at a classic, but with a modern twist with the addition of two Cobal Mini MJ pumps designed for nano s…
Visit the Great Barrier Reef live on Twitter Periscope Tonight
I’d love to get to the Great Barrier Reef, but probably won’t anytime soon. If you’re like me, or just want to go back, check out th…
Tubelip wrasses use slime-covered lips to chomp on coral
Researchers notices tubelip wrasses, a type of coral reef fish, have slime on their “lips” to help them eat corals. These may not have bee…
Hawaii Anti-Aquarium Bill Gets Vetoed, But The Fight Isn’t Over!
Today a small subset of the saltwater aquarium hobby is rejoicing at the announcement that Hawaii Governor David Ige vetoed the baseless and discrimin…
This Lemonpeel Angelfish Is Old Enough To Buy A Beer!
The saltwater aquarium hobby is chugging along and with it, some very old aquarium veteran fish are continuing to thrive, many of which are olde…
What 30 days in the Skimz Macroalgae reactor looks like
We saw the Skimz MBR127 macroalgae reactor last year and were impressed. We were also curious when we read over a 30-day review of the reactor in acti…
Get To Know Some Unique Corals You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
You could be hard pressed to see the difference between an Adonis and Hallucination Zoanthid, or between a Walt Disney and Homewrecker Acrop…
60 Watt Equivalent LED Bulbs Selling For $1.50!
I just couldn’t believe my eyes when I walked into my local Goodwill thrift store and saw a huge pile of new LED lamps for sale. It wasn’t…
Triton Labs Says Goodbye To Their Giant Gigas Clam
In the reef aquarium hobby, we talk about the beginning of reef tanks so much more than their endings, usually because one end is very happy and excit…
Rubber Reefs? Rubber algae helping restore reefs in Med
Rubber synthetic algae that mimics coralline algae is being used to help create an artificial reef to help aid in reef restoration in the Mediterranea…
Purple Monster Jawbreaker Shroom Redefines Upscale Shrooms!
What can we say about this incredible new Purple Monster jawbreaker Shroom? This fantastic corallimorph is almost unthinkable in color and pattern, an…
Octopus Aquaculture A tour Of The Kanaloa Octopus Farm
When we were invited to take a tour of the Kanaloa Octopus Farm with the Kona Underwater Group in Hawaii, we were very excited to see what the Farm wa…
Review Of A Small Controllable Return Pump: The Waveline DC 2500
Before I put away my Waveline DC 2500 controllable water pump for later use, I wanted to share with you what it’s been like to own a device like…
Great New Pictures of BLUE Queen Angelfish from St. Paul’s Rock
The Queen Angelfish is one of the most iconic reef fish in the Caribbean Sea. It’s appearance has some regional variation throughout its range from Florida to Brazil, but there’s one place…
I Saw A White Bicolor Angelfish And It Was Magical
When I traveled from Sydney to Cairns to visit Cairns Marine, I knew I’d be treated to see some very neat rare fish, and some juicy corals. But as luck would have it, the fish collecting crew br…
Xanthic Eibli Angelfish Is Even Rarer Than The True Tigerpyge
This xanthic Eibl’s angelfish is such a rare and unique specimen, this is only the second time we’ve ever had the pleasure of documenting this color morph. We thought we were checking…
Sanjay Joshi’s Nano Reef Tank Breaks All The Rules (Video)
Before going to Reefapalooza NY from Denver earlier this summer, you could say I took a slight detour to Maryland and then the State College Pennsylvania before heading to the big show. The reef …
Take A Look At The Reef Tank Of An Australian Professional
Many aquarium professionals who either run a fish store or do aquarium service and maintenance, generally don’t have much of a personal fish tank. This phenomenon is generally summarized as R…
Best Reef Tank Teardown Time Lapse Video
Reef tanks don’t last forever, but it’s nice when they go out on a high note. Usually when a reef is shut down, it’s because of some aquarium catastrophe, or extraneous circumstances…