It’s that time of year when dust is settling at the LFS, so take in a few thoughts for what the professional fish-slingers and coral fraggers can do to be ready for the onset of the Fall reefing season. Would…
Scitronix Releases Tantalizing Teaser Video Of Their LittleBlue Controller
Austrian hardware manufacturer Scitronix is a new company that has ambitious goals in the aquarium hobby. In addition to developing a sophisticated LED striplight and modular fixture, Scitronix is getting closer to releasing their fully fledged aquarium controller called LittleBlue. …
Sicce’s Forthcoming Smart Pumps Will Have Net-Connected Features!
We’ve been super excited for the forthcoming release of the new Sicce Smart DC controllable water pumps since their introduction last year. We’re now on the cusp of the release of Sicce’s new flagship pumps and we’ve got some great…
RVS Fishworld Continues To Train Whole Communities Of Net-Caught Aquarium Fisherman
Over the years a lot of ink has been spilled about cyanide-caught fish, and a lot of lip service has been paid to catching ornamental fish using nets. Talk is cheap and real action is expensive, and RVS Fishworld has been…
Chasing Coral Review: This Very Important Film Was Way Overdue!
Chasing Coral is a profound documentary that has been a long time in the making. Made by the crew that brought us Chasing Ice, the team at Exposure Labs went to the ends of the earth to document the alarming…
Take A Look At The Reef Tank Of An Australian Professional
Many aquarium professionals who either run a fish store or do aquarium service and maintenance, generally don’t have much of a personal fish tank. This phenomenon is generally summarized as ‘The Cobbler’s children wear no shoes’ and it’s not unique…
Focustronic Wants To Change The Way We Think About Lighting
Over the years the aquarium hobby has seen a number of drastic changes in ideology. Wet/dry filters transformed how we think about biological filtration, protein skimmers changed how we think about bioballs as nitrate factories, while gyre flow and propeller pumps…
Hawaii Anti-Aquarium Bill Gets Vetoed, But The Fight Isn’t Over!
Today a small subset of the saltwater aquarium hobby is rejoicing at the announcement that Hawaii Governor David Ige vetoed the baseless and discriminatory bill which would have phased out ornamental fish collection from Hawaii. Meanwhile the rest of us…
This Lemonpeel Angelfish Is Old Enough To Buy A Beer!
The saltwater aquarium hobby is chugging along and with it, some very old aquarium veteran fish are continuing to thrive, many of which are older than our youngest aquarist. So anytime someone says they’ve got a fish over twenty years old,…
Get To Know Some Unique Corals You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
You could be hard pressed to see the difference between an Adonis and Hallucination Zoanthid, or between a Walt Disney and Homewrecker Acropora tenuis, but there’s no mistaking the Caribbean corals and their unique assortment of species. It’s always been surprising to…