Once upon a time, successful captive breeding of marine fish was pretty much limited to clownfish and new successes were heralded as huge triumphs. Nowadays there’s announcements of new species culturing breakthroughs fairly regularly and these are usually fish that…
Pink Fusion & Purple Helix are Truly Coralline Algae in a Bottle
Pink Fusion and Purple Helix are two new products promising to contain ‘Coralline Algae in a Bottle’. Produced by a company called Atlantic Reef Conservation or ARC Reef for short, Coralline Algae in a Bottle is exactly what it sounds…
The Massive 2,000 Gallon Reef Tank on Dubai’s Palm Island
Dubai in the United Arab Emirates has made a name for itself across the globe for going big, having ambition, and this also extends to the reef aquarium owners of this country. While visiting BPK Dubai for their annual regional…
Cirrhilabrus sanguineus Brought to America by TSM Corals
For decades the red blotched fairy wrasse, Cirrhilabrus sanguineus, has been a holy grail of wrasse collectors and pretty much known only from books and pictures. The earlier this year expert deep diving fish collector Tim Bennett shocked the world by hauling…
New Micro Polyp Species Described from Japan and Palau
Micro polyps are a broad group of tiny encrusting octocorals that can be so small that they are easily overlooked, both on the reef and in the aquarium. The only one we see with any regularity is ‘blue Anthelia’ a…
Triton Reagents Organics range Includes Bio-Base, Nitrogen & Phosphorus
Triton Organics is a concept we first heard about at InterZoo in Germany back in May but now it seems like Triton is finally to take the wraps off their next big move. After years of focusing on the elemental side…
New Algae Turf Scrubbers coming soon from Aquaristik Innovation
Algae Turf Scrubbers or ATS as they are commonly known are an interesting and practical way to filter certain unwanted nutrients from reef aquarium water. Creating a a dedicated place for turf algae to grow both outcompetes algaes in an…
Video Feature of the Original Weeping Willow Leather Coral
The Weeping Willow leather coral is one of the oldest yet least understood soft coral strains in the reef aquarium hobby. Originating at least as far back as the year 2000, this exceptional strain of Sarcophyton ehrenbergi is known for its…
Reef Casts Breaks the Mold with Creative Corals Bases, Tiles and Plugs
We’ve been gluing corals to frag plugs, tiles and discs since the early 2000s and it’s well past time for us to think outside the box of what constitutes a suitable base for corals. The last few years we’ve seen…
Aenigmanthus segoi, a New Genus & Two new Species of Zoanthid
A new paper on the phylogeny and the evolution of zoanthid growing forms has identified a new species of Hydrozoanthus, and a completely new genus and accompanying species called Aenigmanthus segoi. While in the aquarium hobby we are mostly focused with the shallow…