The xanthic aberration of some pygmy angelfish is a mystery that has puzzled exotic saltwater aquarists for years and the rabbit hole is about to get a whole lot deeper. Recently a number of very interesting Centropyge eibli were collected from the…
2021 Reef Builders Studio Mega Tour Videos
If you’re anything like us you’re craving about as much as the reef community can put out and to answer the call this week we published over two hours of pure reef aquarium video and discussion. We’ve been hard at…
Spice Up Your Spectrum with the Gavita Pro UV LED Rail
The Gavita Pro UV LED Rail is an interesting strip light that was not designed for reef aquarium use, instead it was intended as a UV booster for indoor and hydroponic culture of cannabis plants. You might be surprised to…
‘Xenia’ is Unsurprisingly Taking Over Venezuelan Reefs
‘Xenia elongata’, recently reclassified as Unomia stolonifera, is a soft coral that is well known in the aquarium hobby for its supernatural growth rates in reef tanks. This fleshy octocoral is so prolific that it has been used in dedicated…
Is This The First Solid RED Elegance Coral?
We still remember where we were when we first received images of a ‘red’ elegance coral and we instantly dismissed the authenticity of the photographs. It wouldn’t take more than a few months until we saw a red elegance coral…
Tetra Connect Automatic Feeder Review
The Tetra Connect Automatic Feeder is the first and probably still the only mainstream automatic fish feeder with wireless programming features. We first learned about the Tetra Connect Automatic Feeder in late 2019 and it’s taken some time for this…
Chromis vanbebberae: The White Tail Reef Fish Gets Elevated to Full Species
Chromis vanbebberae is a brand new species of damselfish that was described at the end of last year and finally puts a name to a fish we’ve long had on our radar. This curious smaller Chromis has been known for some…
Pro Clear Dosing Container with Quick-Disconnect Fittings
With the rapid growth of reefers using dosing pumps to automatically manage their additions of calcium, buffer, magnesium and other solutions, there’s never been a bigger demand for dedicated dosing containers to hold additives. Pro Clear Aquatic Systems is putting…
Deltec VF8000 Top 10 New Features
It’s no secret that the Deltec VF6000 has been one of our favorite automatic filter rolls for mechanical filtration of larger volumes of water. So it was with excitement that last month we learned of a new and improved larger…
Red Sea ReefDose 2 & 4 Doser Review [Video]
The Red Sea ReefDose 2 and ReefDose 4 are the long awaited fluid dosing systems from the aquarium hobby’s leading producer of premium glass aquarium setups. In addition to their tanks and additives Red Sea has been diligently filling out…