A hobby is defined as “an activity done regularly in one’s leisure time for pleasure” and there’s no lack of things to do when you’re looking after an aquarium. We tend to think of aquarium maintenance as cleaning the glass,…
Aquarium Outlets Should Resemble the Meross Outdoor Smartplug
The internet of things is well and fully upon us and more and more electrical devices are available with built in smarts and wireless control features. The Meross line is one of our favorites for having standalone wifi outlets that…
Tropic Marin Halts Production of ‘Turkish Blend’ of Pro-Reef Salt Mix
Turkish Blend usually engenders a connotation of fine tobacco or strong coffee but the term is coming to mean something very different for one flavor of Tropic Marin’s popular saltwater mixes. Mysterious coral problems started arising from the reefing community…
First Reef Delete UV Flashlights Now Available at Premium Aquatics
The Reef Delete is a flashlight unlike anything the aquarium hobby has ever seen before as instead of being designed to help you see things, it’s actually designed to help you not see certain things. What we mean by that is…
Fragging Flowerpot Corals with Aquatic Art [Video]
Flowerpot corals are a mysterious group of reef builders that have perplexed reef aquarists for the last several decades. Not all ‘flowerpots’ are the same as they fall under three different genera including the closely related Goniopora and Bernardpora and the superficially…
We Finally Got Our Hands on the Brazilian Flameback Angelfish
The Brazilian Flameback Angelfish, Centropyge aurantonotus, is one of the two species of pygmy angelfish in the Caribbean but the common ‘pygmy’ angelfish is infinitely more common in the aquarium hobby. This fish looks quite similar to the African flameback angelfish,…
Yellow Tang, Candy Basslet, and Pygmy Angelfish Being Farmed in Japan
KAMIHATA FISH IND. LTD. is a member of the Kamihata Group, which manufactures and sells the world-famous Hikari brand of ornamental fish food, and imports and wholesales freshwater fish, saltwater fish, goldfish, water plants, reptiles and small animals to aquarium…
Cirrhilabrus blatteus, A Fresh Look at the Elusive Red Sea Fairy Wrasse
For as well studied and heavily traveled as the Red Sea has been throughout most of history, it still surprises us how much of its marine life remains rare, elusive, and poorly documented. If it wasn’t for the recent diligence…
Smart ATO Nano HOB from Auto Aqua Review
Making up for lost water due to evaporation is one of the most important functions required of saltwater aquariums and there’s a myriad of ways to accomplish this. AutoAqua is one of the companies that’s been the most focused on…
Iconic Australian Lineatus Wrasse Collected in Papua New Guinea
If there’s one iconic reef aquarium fish that we’ve come to associate with classic marine fauna of Australia the lined fairy wrasse is certainly very high on this proverbial list. If you rewind the clock almost almost twenty years to…