The Abei Angelfish is one of the rarest and most elusive species of pygmy angelfish in the world. The very few specimens ever collected, mostly out of Australia, sold for astronomical, five-digit sums but a trio of recently collected specimens…
Huge Colony of Kung Pao Monti Spotted on Wild Reef
Modern communications and social media tools have brought the aquarium world closer together than ever before, but there’s still a big gap between Wild Corals and Aquarium Corals. Most reef aquarists only get to see small pieces of coral, either…
New MyReefer Wizard Helps Configure Red Sea Reef Tanks
Red Sea has a whole new wave of reef aquarium products coming to market this year, and they really want you to use them on your current or future Red Sea tanks. To help make sense of the various new product…
LED Breakthrough Allows Multiple Colors From a Single Diode!
Light Emitting Diodes, now commonly referred to as LEDs have revolutionized how we illuminate our world and especially our aquariums. Fifty years ago LEDs weren’t useful for much more than producing infra red light used in remote controls, but a…
Semilarvatus Makes One of the Rarest Butterflyfish Hybrids
It’s been a long while since we’ve had a fun butterflyfish hybrid to share with you but what’s cool about this specimen is that it is an aquarium established fish. The parents of this outbred fish were Chaetodon lineolatus and C. semilarvatus,…
Mini Bubble King 160 is the Smallest DC Skimmer from Royal Exclusiv
Royal Exclusiv has one of the most expansive catalogs of protein skimmers in the reef aquarium hobby and today it’s getting just a little bit larger. The Mini Bubble King 160 is the newest protein skimmer from RE and it’s…
Clipperton Angelfish is a True Micro Endemic Marine Fish
The Clipperton Angelfish is a poorly known species of large marine angelfish in the Holacanthus genus. The reason we don’t hear about or see this fish is because it only comes from Clipperton Atoll, a serious distance away from anywhere…
Neptune Systems Trident Finally Went on Sale This Week
The Neptune Systems Trident is an ambitious new product finally released this week to great fanfare and anticipation. Neptune Systems has a history of aiming for grandiose visions of fully automated reef tanks, and the Trident is the culmination of…
This is What Healthy Quarantined & Conditioned Fish Look Like [Video]
Several weeks ago we received a truly epic shipment of fish from RVS Fishworld and Coast Tropicals. The unboxing of these awesome fish, and my live reaction at this overwhelming bounty was captured on video in which I shared my shock…
Rare ‘Astro Leather’ Coral Trickling Into the Reef Hobby
The Astro Leather is a very interesting group of soft corals which was only described to the genus level earlier this year. Leather corals are very common and can be super abundant in certain environments but Anastromvos leathers have gone completely…