The Blue Planet nature film series was one of the most luscious, eye-popping documentaries that had ever come to our home screen. The series is the ocean and marine life companion to Planet Earth. Now more than 15 years later the…
Syngnathus chihiroe, A New Pipefish Discovered By Deep Dredge
Every year, new species of land and sea animals are discovered, sometimes it’s through real life observations and eureka moments. Other times the discovery is more subtle as specimens are documented through camera traps, fish markets, or by simply swishing…
Lightning Maroon Clownfish Are Cheap And Common Now
We knew this day would come, that we’d walk into a fish store, and see some lightning maroon clownfish offered up at affordable, double digit prices. It seems like just yesterday we we were writing about the first lightning maroon…
Say Hello to Acanthurus albimento, the White Chin Surgeonfish
Acanthurus albimento is a very rare new species of surgeonfish from the northwestern Philippines. The new species of Acanthurus is known by the common name of white chin surgeonfish due to a white patch covering most of the lower jaw. The white…
The NEW GNC Bluray LED Is A Thing Of Italian Beauty
What do you get when you combine 588 LEDs for 130 watts of lighting power into a svelte merger of aluminum and glass? I”ll give you a hint, it’s not an iPhone, but the newest high performance LED light from…
Homophyllia bowerbanki, a reintroduction to ‘Bankies’ and ‘Hillae’
It’s been nearly a year now since the familiar Australian ‘Scolymia’ and Bowerbankis were removed from Acanthastrea and placed into their own new genus Homophyllia. Unsurprisingly, most reefers still call them ‘Acans’ by convention, but there is a lot that we…
Dramatic Acropora Color Change Sighted At Reef Raft Canada
We know that corals can change colors, some times pretty radically from how they are first imported. However one recent account from Reef Raft Canada takes the cake for a complete spectral makeover. An unremarkable yet good looking colony of Acropora latistella arrived…
First Look At The NEW Waveline Pump Controller!
It’s been a little while since we’ve heard any news from Reef Life Support Systems but there’s a pretty good reason for that. The company has been hard at work building their new Wavepuck pumps but more importantly, giving a their…
We Finally Get To See An Aberrant Naso Tang
Aberrant tangs have become a mainstay of exotic fish collectors in recent years but so far, the genre has been dominated by Zebrasoma species, with the odd Ctenochaetus or Acanthurus surgeonfish occasionally trying out the look. Besides having a blonde…
Coral Box Wifi Dosing Pump Might Actually Do The Job
Coral Box is looking at getting into the wireless aquarium equipment space in a big way this year, and their opening salvo is a feature-rich wireless dosing pump. The Coral Box Wifi Dosing Pump is a compact 4-channel dosing system…