The X-Plore modular LED system from Pacific Sun invites XP-E and XP-G LEDs and their lenses to get together and have a full on photonic throwdown. In case you hadn’t heard, Cree’s XP series LEDs are the latest and greatest…
MACNA 2011 to be hosted in the Midwest by Greater Iowa Reef Society, GIRS
MACNA 2011 will be hosted in the the Midwest by Greater Iowa Reef Society (GIRS). Congratulations to the GIRS for their winning bid of next year’s MACNA. From MASNA: It has been over a decade since MACNA was held in…
Octopus steals camera to make its own home video
Apparently an octopus wanted to make a home video. To do that though he needed a camera. Thankfully a diver was in the water filming him and what better way then to make a home video than to steal the…
Coral Finder underwater identification guide works well when diving or fragging
The Coral Finder is a new coral identification guide from the Coral Identification Capacity Building Program (CICBP). The CICBP wants to train everyone on how they can better recognize the key features of certain coral groups down to the genus…
First documented spawning of Ribbon Eels at the Steinhart Aquarium
Ribbon Eels are fascinating animals for public display but reports of the successful acclimation of these timid and finicky eels are rather uncommon. There are many ideas about why these fish tend to fare poorly in captivity, including latent effects…
Good Karma Friday: share some goodness about one of your favorite products or companies
I was having a great conversation with Chris Clough of Aqua Illumination last weekend and we were talking about really relying on online user reviews and information on products to make a purchase. Whether its a new pump for your…
True personifer angelfish come to the US from West Australia
In the late 90s, the personifer angelfish from Australia was split up into two species: the Classic ‘personifer’ angelfish from East Australia was named Chaetodontoplus meridithi and the angelfish from West Australia was given the nominal species name of C.…
Stanford researchers find electrical current from plants, algae
After years and years of us hating on algae we might start liking it again. We say this because researchers at Stanford University are generating electrical current by hooking into the electron activity of individual algae cells. Or in WonHyoung…
Aquacare’s new peristaltic dosing pump
Aquacare has a new dosing pump hitting the European market that will fill a missing link in their product line. The dosing pump is a one channel device that can pump 50 ml/min = 3 l/h. You can get smaller…
Io LED light from Pacific Sun is 75 watts of controlled photons
The Io BTEX LEDÂ is a smaller iteration of the Phobos and Deimos do-it-all LED aquarium light from Pacific Sun. Like the other LED lights names after celestial bodies, the Io features top of the line Cree XP-G and XP-E…
