The new species are always an exciting topic to write about and while the fish get the lion’s share of the attention, this year had a lot of great new corals and invertebrates. The zoanthids, deepwater gorgonians and the miniature…
Top 10 Angelfish Stories of 2018
It’s no secret that we are big fans of saltwater angelfish and we’re not the only ones, Angelfish are beautiful and diverse in their size and colors when they are normally colored, but the aberrations, rare species and variety of…
AI Prime Fuge Light is ‘Primed’ to Grow Macroalgae
The AI Prime Fuge LED light is the first aquarium fixture from AquaIllumination that is specifically designed to grow macroalgaes. This small yet powerful aquarium light has all the same features and specifications of the AI Prime but with a…
HydroFill Ti ATO Reservoir Now in a New 15 Gallon Size
Compensating for evaporation of aquarium water is one of the more important aspects to maintaining proper reef aquarium salinity. The reef hobby has experienced an explosion of ATO solutions from a number of companies but the reservoir to supply this…
Never Before Seen Damselfish Collected in Madagascar by Blue Ocean SARL
When new species of damselfish or small gobies are described, sometimes the differences can be so minute that you really have to analyze the fish in question. This new mostly white damselfish is so wildly different in appearance that there’s…
Clearview Lids Adds Semi-Modular Tsunami Lids to their Catalog
Aquarium lids and tops are some of the most undervalued and under-appreciated aquarium accessories but one company is trying to change all that. Artfully Acrylic has carved a niched as pretty much the only company specializing in custom fitted lids…
Lipogramma idabeli, a Gorgeous New Species of Deepwater Basslet
Lipogramma idabeli is a gorgeous and unexpected new species of basslet recently described from Honduras. Like similar species of Lipogramma, L. idabelli was collected at the abyssal depths of 125 to 150 meters, or between 410 to 492 feet deep. Lipogramma idabeli is…
Tunze EcoChic 8831 Refugium LED
Specially designed LED lights for refugiums have been becoming more common in the reef aquarium hobby lately and the EcoChic 8831 from Tunze is the latest entry. This sleek nano size LED is small, sleek & waterproof so you can…
Unlock the Secrets of Light with the WaveGo Portable Spectrometer
It’s not a stretch to say that over the last five years reef aquarium lighting has gotten very sophisticated; multicolor, multi-spectrum with multichannel control and very specific wavelength emission peaks of exotic colors like UV, deep red etc. Meanwhile, the only…
Interesting Ecology Shift of Blacktail and Orangeface Butterflyfish
Saltwater fish are among some of the most colorful creatures we can keep as pets but as many species as we have access to, one notable group is a sort of ‘forbidden fruit’ when it comes to living in aquariums.…