AI Prime Fuge Review: An LED Light With Uncompromising PAR Power
The AI Prime Fuge LED light is an unrelenting PAR monster designed to grow macroalgae and if we’re being honest, it’s really only intended to grow the Brillo-pad algae Chaetomorpha. T…
Top 10 Featured Reef Tank Videos of 2018
We do a lot of different stories and produce a wide variety of videos but without a doubt, our favorite content is featuring successful reef tanks. We’re talking about tanks that are the clean, …
This is One Incredible Yellowfin Surgeonfish
There are over 80 species of surgeonfish but the aquarium hobby is dominated by yellow tangs, blue tangs, purple, koles, powder blues and just a few others. But there’s a whole world of tangs an…
Gramma brasiliensis Builds Nests Like a Bird
The royal gramma is one of our all-time favorite reef fish and it is one of the most common reef fish in the saltwater aquarium hobby. The royal gramma is found throughout the greater Caribbean but to…
Top 10 Reef Builders Stories of 2018
In the latest recap of last year’s best including angelfish, new species, new products etc. we revisit the top ten stories that you guys loved the most. As is customary, you all really love lear…
Rare Fish & Colorful Corals in the Latest Studio Vlogs
In the latest updates we’ve got a video of some very special fish and a nice broad coral flat full of thriving colonies and frags. We received a nice box of angelfish from Poma Labs including tw…
Drs. Foster & Smith Shutting Down but LiveAquaria Will Remain
Drs. Foster & Smith has been one of the major players in mail order pet supplies for over two decades, and the reef aquarium hobby has grown quite fond of their livestock division, LiveAquaria. Ju…
The Rainbow Splice Acropora Millepora from Reef Raft Canada
There are grafted corals and then there is the Rainbow Splice Millepora from Reef Raft Canada. This naturally produced bicolored strain of the hobby’s favorite Acro, Acropora millepora, was…
A New Indonesian Coral Farmer Association is Born!
By: Vincent Chalias It’s been eight months since the export of corals from Indonesia has stopped – eight months of heavy confusion, misinformation, and general disarray, but what is it all about…
Top 10 New Fish Species of 2018
One of the funnest parts of keeping up with all the happenings in the world of marine life is learning about all the new discoveries of rare and exotic reef fish. Sometimes, oftentimes, these new spec…
TMC’s new REEF Easi-Dose Plus 3 and Easi-Stir
Top 7 Aquarium Heaters for Your Reef Aquarium
The winter chill is in the air and is a good time to ensure our coral and fish are nice and toasty warm. With warmth on our minds, I thought it might …
Amazing custom freshwater aquarium build with $94,000 pricetag
Most of us would dream of being able to build a nearly six-figure custom aquarium. Building something of this size and scale is no easy feat and takes…
Another Successful Gold Torch Spawning Attempt from Ultra Coral Australia
By: Vincent Chalias For the second year in a row, Ultra Coral Australia (UCA) managed to sexually reproduce Euphyllia glabrescens in their facility in central Queensland. They are currently growing co…
Clownfish
Longfin Black Ice Clownfish is the First ‘Developed’ Longfin Marine Fish
The Longfin Black Ice Clownfish is a new strain of designer clowns from Sea & Reef Aquaculture which have well developed, ‘voluptuous’…
aberrant angelfish
Blue Skeleton Majestic Angelfish Is Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen!
Every now and then a very special reef fish that we’ll never forget pops up on our rare fish radar, and the ‘Blue Skeleton’ Majestic…
New Species
Lipogramma idabeli, a Gorgeous New Species of Deepwater Basslet
Lipogramma idabeli is a gorgeous and unexpected new species of basslet recently described from Honduras. Like similar species of Lipogramma, …
Gear
TMC’s new REEF Easi-Dose Plus 3 and Easi-Stir
Tropical Marine Centre has been on a roll lately (no pun intended) and have a few new products for all your dosing needs. The new Tropical Marine Cent…
