The rare fish hits just keep on rolling this week with a fresh new video of Gramma sp. dejongi, the most sensational new Caribbean fish in years which has yet to be formally described. We first broke the news of…
House of Fins amassed a rare fish collection like no other for the 2010 SPLASH event
House of Fins is a premier LFS and aquarium maintenance company located in Greenwich CT. For the last four years HoF has put together this anniversary sale event they simply call “SPLASH”. We’ve been fortunate to attend and speak at…
Biologging: Tuna, sharks and mammals getting smart electronic tags to map the oceans and ecosystems
We’ve all heard of tagging animals for catch and release programs, for tracking migrations and populations but what you may not have learned is that these tags have been getting smart, like scary smart. Over the past 20 years these…
Vertex light studio software controlled by iPhone
[youtube width=”640″ height=”344″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECIAQryRrDA[/youtube] Vertex has already released the V-Link wireless USB stick which can be connected to any computer. The USB stick includes the Java-based Vertex Light Studio software that we told you about in August. However, apparently that is…
Liopropoma africanum is a rare fish for the connoisseurs of exotic reef life
Seeing Liopropoma africanum for the first time at the House of Fins SPLASH event last weekend was a big surprise, and a welcome one at that. It’s only a few months ago that the Africanum basslet started popping up in…
Turboflotor Blue 500 hands on and first impression
The Turboflotor Blue 500 from AquaMedic is a smaller internal protein skimmer that has a few things going for it: it’s small with a small footprint, it’s easy on the eyes and affordable but most important of all, it makes…
Amazing video from the Canary Islands gives a rare look at East Atlantic marine life
[youtube width=”670″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i8IgakWfGc[/youtube] If the Caribbean is overlooked because of the sheer diversity of Indo Pacific species, then the Mediterranean and East Atlantic marine fishes are way overlooked for aquarium use. It’s only recently that we’ve had ready access to…
Red Sea Coral Pro salt shipping later this month
The new Coral Pro salt we covered earlier has been in production to get inventory levels in tip top shape for when it launches. We have confirmed that Coral Pro will ship at the end of this month, but with…
White Red Sea Max 250 shipping to North America
Interested in getting your hands on a Red Sea Max 250? Tired of the boring black model that everyone has been scooping up? Red Sea just announced that the North American market has been shipped a few white models of…
Mame RGB LED Eco-light gets freeze-frame treatment of lighting cycle
The Mame Eco-light is one beautiful RGB LED light that showcases the plethora of coloration options we’ve been lacking in the hobby. We found this great video of the Mame Eco-light that shows the fixture transitioning through a full daylight…
