Fritz Reef Pro Mix (RPM) has quickly become one of the most popular seawater salt mixes in the United States, both for its consistency, affordability and the simple fact that it is becoming widely available at finer reef aquarium stores…
Tempuractis, the ‘Sponge Battered Anemone’ Is The First Symbiosis of its Kind
Tempuractis rinkai is a wild new genus and species of anemone which has a very peculiar relationship with a particular species of sponge. This tiny, simple anemone appears to be in an obligate symbiotic relationship with the sponge, living inside…
EasyTank Is an ATO For Tiny & Nano Reefs
If you’ve never heard of a ‘glug jug’ then you are lucky to be experiencing reef tanks in our current golden age. But back in the olden days, well before there were any top off devices besides mechanical float valves,…
Sicce’s New Glass Aquarium Packages Coming Soon
Sicce, the company best known for making some of the best and most reliable pumps in the aquarium world is throwing their hat into a whole new category – glass aquarium. As you might imagine for Sicce to start offering…
Hands On With The Popko Nano Siphon by Oceanexus
The Popko Aquarium Siphon Device is an ingenious new take on how to get water to drain from your tank, without having to drill it. This miniature siphon is capable of draining up to 2,500 liters or around 660 gallons…
Orange Eye Convict Chalice Coral
As soon as they became known about, convict chalices with a network of fine lines became one of the most highly sought after strains of Echinophyllia corals. Most of the convict chalice corals are a single, solid color such as the…
Continuum Reef Basis & Coral Color is a Complete Dosing System
Reef Basis and Coral Color is a new handful of additives from Continuum Aquatics that aims to simplify the complete dosing of minerals and trace elements for reef tanks. Reef Basis KH Buffer, Calcium +, and Magnesium handle the mineral…
The Shells of Squids Tells The History of Life In The Ocean
For much of the history of life on earth, the oceans were dominated by giant mollusks we call Cephalopods. But the squid, octopus, & cuttlefish of today have less in common with the giant, shelled creatures of ancient past, and…
You Won’t Believe The Age of this Tank-Grown Trachyphyllia
It has long been a mystery how old, exactly, some of these solitary, large polyp stony corals are when we get them in our aquariums. We’ve been growing out SPS corals, zoanthids and some Euphyllia from single corallites for years,…
Fauna Marin Reef-Focused AquaHomeTest Launching Soon
Alongside the announcement of their new Elemental additives, this year Fauna Marin is also kicking off a new line of aquarium test kits. Aqua Home Test is Fauna Marin’s take on the at-home testing kit and will cover basic mineral…