With Vertex having released their wirelessly controlled Illumina LED light everywhere except the U.S., they’re now shifting gears towards different ways to control it, as well as future wireless enabled products. We already told you about the Cerebra touchscreen aquarium…
PCR: Increase your light output using Power Compacts with internal reflectors
If you’ve been looking to get a bump in light output from your existing power compact lighting but don’t necessarily want to increase the power consumption thereof, NanoTuners is finally coming through with deliveries of their specially designed PCR lamps…
Black Sun Coral, Tubastrea micrantha, found growing all over a gulf oil platform
Gulf Oil Platforms may get a little more crowded, and a little less colorful, with the discovery of non-native black sun coral, Tubastrea micrantha, in the Gulf of Mexico. Oddly enough, the only other major colonizer of gulf oil platforms…
Batumi Aquarium along Baltic Sea coast to get unique look with winning design
The Batumi Aquarium in Georgia (the country, not the state) is getting a unique new look thanks to the winning design from Denmark-based Henning Larsen Architects in an invited competition to design the upcoming aquarium. Drawing inspiration from rounded pebbles…
Collecting expedition to new Hawaii location succeeds in catching masked angelfish
So far. That’s right, not only have divers Rob Lower and Ron Tubbs succeeded in collecting two one masked angelfish, Genicanthus personatus, but it looks like they are aiming to collect a few more before the expedition to this dive…
Southwest Marines in the UK grows it’s own Phyto, and lots of it
There’s a pretty special shop in the UK called Southwest Marines which at first glance seems rather unassuming but they do some really interesting things. In addition to housing some amazing aberrant tricolor tangs and gem tangs like it was…
Tell us the best Reef Haiku or Limeric to win a Tunze Nano RO Station
The Tunze Nano Reverse Osmosis is a tiny and efficient little reverse osmosis unit to meet the reduced water purification needs of the nano reefer. The Nano RO Station is great for office tanks as they are about the size…
GHL ProFilux Touch getting closer to release date
GHL has gotten more official with their release of the ProFilux Touch module. Besides that small ProFilux Touch image that we showed you last week, we have this larger image along with a few more details. This is a touch…
New ATB Luguna 900 custom pump to replace mini airstar
ATB has been hard at work on a replacement skimmer pump. This new pump will replace the current mini airstar that comes with the Deluxe 8.5 models. The pump, if you haven’t noticed already is a Luguna 900 with special…
Thinking “Negative”- an overlooked aquascaping aspect
If you read my blog posts and articles on aquascaping, you hear me blabber on and on about the virtues of great rockwork, avoiding the uninspired rock wall configurations, the Golden Ratio, etc. Yet for all my talk about rockwork,…
