For a saltwater tank, salinity is quite literally the most important measurement we can make, yet the entire hobby basically treats salinity as an afterthought. Since a proper salinity measurement can give you a basic overview of all of the elements…
ATLEDTiS Pro I Is One Of The Sexiest New Lights Of 2017
ATLEDTiS is a company that has presented the aquarium hobby with some unique lights before, but their new Pro I fixtures is a real standout unit. Of course its solid metal slab construction is a real eye catcher but there’s…
Aquarium Fish Collecting HALTED By Courts In Hawaii!!
Here we go again! The ink of Governor Ige’s veto of the ban on aquarium fish collection has hardly had time to dry and we’ve got yet another road block thrown in the way of sustainable harvest of aquarium fish.…
Young Purple Chromis albomaculata Are Deepwater Darlings
When fish collectors venture into new regions and show us fish that we’ve never seen before, it’s easy to get excited at the potential of some of these specimens being new species. Alas, ichthyologists have been hard at work for…
New Deco Rocks For Panta Rhei Hydro Wizard 42 & 63
The Hydro Wizard pumps are among the most popular for extreme high flow requirements, especially in large and extra large reef tanks. These pumps are quiet and powerful, but they are anything but low profile and protrude prominently into the…
NanoBox Reef Handmade LED Lights Now On Marine Depot
NanoBox Reef is one of the success stories of DIY LED lights growing and maturing into something much, much, better. Over the years we’ve watched NanoBox Reef develop a very unique kind of LED light which is uniquely suited for small…
How Do Your Prepare An Aquarium For Disaster?
The hurricane season is in full swing here in North America and a significant swath of the Caribbean and Florida are about the face down the business end of one of the biggest storms in history. While people are scrambling…
Neat Pair of ORA Hybrid Polymnus Maroon Clownfish On LiveAquaria
It’s incredible to think how many maroon clownfish hybrids have surfaced over the years but we still have never seen them with this particular crossing. This pair of hybrids from ORA and listed on LiveAquaria is believed to be a…
Someone FINALLY Made A Magnetic Aquarium Thermometer!
The temperature of aquarium water, or ANY biological system for that matter, is the most critical parameter we can measure yet most reefers rarely give it the attention it deserves. I’d be willing to bet that half of you don’t even…
Horniman’s ‘Lab Grown’ Tenuis Acros Are The REAL Limited Edition Corals!
For the last twenty years a certain subset of wild corals have been deemed to be ‘limited edition’, but since these come from the boundless ocean, how limited could they be? Well today we have what is perhaps one of…