I just couldn’t believe my eyes when I walked into my local Goodwill thrift store and saw a huge pile of new LED lamps for sale. It wasn’t the mountain of lamps that got my attention, but the $1.50 price…
Triton Labs Says Goodbye To Their Giant Gigas Clam
In the reef aquarium hobby, we talk about the beginning of reef tanks so much more than their endings, usually because one end is very happy and excited, and the other is usually more sad and melancholic. However I feel…
Purple Monster Jawbreaker Shroom Redefines Upscale Shrooms!
What can we say about this incredible new Purple Monster jawbreaker Shroom? This fantastic corallimorph is almost unthinkable in color and pattern, and raises the bar for ALL Jawbreakers and shrooms in the reef aquarium hobby. This fantastic shroom is…
Review Of A Small Controllable Return Pump: The Waveline DC 2500
Before I put away my Waveline DC 2500 controllable water pump for later use, I wanted to share with you what it’s been like to own a device like this. This is less a review of this actual pump than it is…
Stopping To Smell The Orchids: A Day With The Exotic Animals of Adventure Park PNG
I’ve been accused of having a ‘one track mind’, especially when it comes to corals and diving in far flung countries. That’s 99% true, most of the time I just want to know how everything pertains to the coral reefs we…
You’ve Never Seen Caribbean Corals Like This!!! (VIDEO)
When you think of a real colorful, lush Coral Reef with fields of corals growing like a garden, all of us picture the crystal clear waters and endless corals of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. That’s because we’ve mostly wiped…
DIY Chaetomorpha Reactors Are All The Rage Right Now!
Intentionally injecting fine bubbles into a reef tank is a highly questionable endeavor, but one current craze I can totally get behind is the huge wave of DIY Chaetomorpha reactors reefers are building to lower nutrients in their reef tanks. Unlike the…
Ultimate Aberrant Yellow Tang Teased By LiveAquaria
Do you know how cool a particular fish has to be for LiveAquaria’s own Director Kevin Kohen to get in front of the camera to tell us all about it? It’s got to be something at least as cool as a wildly…
Oblique Butterflyfish Is The Coolest Fish You’ve Never Heard Of!
The Oblique Butterflyfish, Prognathodes obliquus, is a rare species from St. Paul’s Rock in the middle of the equatorial Atlantic Ocean. Although few mere mortals ever make it to this extremely isolated rocky islet, thankfully super-scientists like Dr. Luiz Rocha always…
New GrassyCore LED With Record-Breaking Color Rendition by Volx Japan
The new GrassyCore LED light is an exciting new collaboration between two major light manufacturers, Volx Japan and HM Electronics of Taiwan. For years Volx Japan has been the market leader for bleeding edge LED spotlights, most recently with their…