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AlgaGen Coral Smoothie is a tasty blend to feed your corals

AlgaGen Coral Smoothie is a brand, spanking new product aimed to get you a coral food that mimics what is found in nature. Reading over the ingredient list it sounds like a pretty tasty and nutritious blend — for a…

Sfiligoi Genesis LED fixtures are modular, dimmable and upgradeable to RGB

Sfiligoi takes modular LED striplights to an entirely new level with the new line of Sfiligoi Genesis LED fixtures we caught back in May at Interzoo. Like the Sfiligoi T5 + LED hybrid we wrote about earlier, the Sfiligoi Genesis…

DIY acrylic refugium “cube,” making more with less

Do-it-yourself (DIY) projects help many of us stretch our dollars in getting set up and continuing the hobby. Some people can make magic from a screwdriver, roll of duct tape and a 2×4 and others work their skills to the…

Marine Depot launches “Like It” giveaway

We like Marine Depot, we like Facebook and most of all we like free stuff. Marine Depot recently rolled out a new contest where all you have to do is “Like” them on Facebook to enter. The pick one random…

Sleek Aqua Cubic nano aquariums

The new Aqua Cubic aquariums are following the trend of open topped, sleek, stylish and functional aquariums putting as much emphasis on the outside of the aquarium as we put on the inside. Two different sizes are available — the…

LumenAqua Mini 700 LED strip with little details

The LumenAqua Mini 700 LED striplight is an interesting product following along the lines of other strip products on the market. Obviously this small version with four 1W Philips Lumileds would be suitable for the smaller tanks and its hard…

3D: New trends in underwater HD photography

A couple of 3D photography stories out of the annual CES (Consumer Electronic Show) gadget-fest in Las Vegas are giving us great hope at the future of underwater HD photography for the consumer. The technology of 3D photography has advanced,…

Fish handle numbers on par with college students

We can leave all the jokes aside but an interesting study has found some fish to score just as well as college students on some basic number tests. Using the highly social, freshwater mosquitofish the researchers conducted a lab test…

Newly described Solomon Islands Greytail Poliourus Angelfish coming to LiveAquaria tonight

The Solomon Islands Greytail Poliourus Angelfish (Chaetodontoplus poliourus) was first described just over a year ago and is now making its LiveAquaria debut for sale tonight Diver’s Den. We aren’t sure what the asking price of this beauty will be but…

New strategy for invasive lionfish: if you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em

Poking through the pages of “The Lionfish Cookbook,” we can pretty much see that the new plan for dealing with the invasive lionfish in the Atlantic is “If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em!” Key Largo-based conservation organization REEF, who…