Acropora tenella is one of the lesser known ‘deep water’ or ‘naked’ style Acros, and it can be quite beautiful and colorful too. However a recent observation of this species in the coral obliterates the maximum known depth for this…
Fauna Marin Soft Multi Mix Fish Food
Soft Multi Mix is a new food blend from Fauna Marin which is not just one food, but a wide variety of their formulas. Fauna Marin’s fish and coral pellet foods are renowned for their quality, being made with the…
Will Smith Goes Diving For the First Time!
Will Smith is a world-famous movie star who pretty much couldn’t be any more successful at life. Recently, however, you may have noticed that the ‘Fresh Prince’ started a YouTube style Vlog channel of his life and experiences puzzling content…
Spotted Line Hogfish, Bodianus rubrisos, Collected by RVS Fishworld
Hogfish are a group of wrasses that are very popular for saltwater aquariums, and some are even suitable for reef tanks. Within the Bodianus genus there are a lot of very colorful, medium sized species which are most often found in…
Will the REAL Apricot Basslet Please Stand Up?
Plectranthias are one of the funnest and prettiest group of small and rare reef fish. Besides P. inermis, the majority of the other species are only found in deep water and it’s always a treat when we get to see…
Rare Ghostly White Longnose Butterflyfish Collected in Philippines
It’s been a good long while since we’ve seen a white longnose butterflyfish turn up in the aquarium hobby but we’ve got a fresh look at one thanks to Son’s Aquarium Fish Trading. The last time we saw a white Forcipiger…
Lifegard Introduces the Redesigned Pro Max UV Sterilizer
Ultraviolet sterilization of water is a practice that has been around for decades, but advancements in this segment of the aquarium market have been few and far between. Sure we’ve seen some micro UV Sterilizers in the form of one…
Chinese Companies are Serious About Aquarium Heaters!
If you were an aquarist in the 1990s and you were suddenly transported to 2018, you’d be very surprised to see that heater technology pretty much hasn’t changed, at least in America and Europe. Heater ‘technology’, if you can give…
Incredible Xanthic Eibl’s Angelfish Appears in Hong Kong
Pygmy angelfish are very popular marine aquarium fish because they pack a lot of personality and color into a very manageable size. But another thing that we can sometimes enjoy in the dwarf Centropyge genus is some really wildly aberrant specimens…
Hands On With the Aquatica AGH5 Housing Part 1: The ‘Core’
Selecting a housing can be a very personal decision based on a user’s particular needs so before deciding on the Aquatica AGH5 housing I reviewed many different options. Aquatica, Nauticam and Ikelite are some of the most widely available housings…