Alkalinity controllers have been bubbling into reality for most of this year and it seems like we can finally look forward to the first commercially made unit. CoralVue has just posted a pre-sale page for the first 100 units of…
Wild Wiebeli X Raccoon Butterflyfish Hybrid!
Butterflyfish are some of the most iconic species of reef fish, it’s always a nice treat to see unusual species, and hybrids of Chaetodon. Today we have an example of both, a hybrid of the rarely seen Chaetodon wiebelii butterflyfish. This specimen…
HydroFill Ti Reservoir from Innovative Marine
The HydroFill Ti Reservoir is a new top off box from Innovative Marine that we dare describe as innovative. This five gallon container is made from a combination of glass and acrylic, with some handy features to make it more useful…
New Axium Skimmers from Eshopps with tiny footprints
The new Axium line of protein skimmers are the third generation of affordable and simplified filtration from Eshopps. The Eshopps Axium skimmers stand out with the new purple trim, but it’s the myriad of other new design features which will…
Trophy Aquarium Fish From The Aquatic Experience
Aquarium fish competitions have been a mainstay of the freshwater aquarium hobby for generations. A long culture of fish breeding as the culmination of being a good freshwater aquarist has resulted in many annual aquariums competitions throughout the year, all over…
Wild 4-Way Homophyllia coral is four times the Scoly
What you are seeing here is a very peculiar coral, both in color, pattern, and especially the fact that there are four corallites growing closely into a mini colony. This head-scratching and head-turning coral was collected in Australia by Ultra…
Crazy little Trimma species photographed in the Abyss of Palau
Take a moment to soak in the wild color and pattern of the rarely seen Trimma goby pictured above. This is the first time this fish has been seen in nearly twenty years, having been photographed by Dr. Luiz Rocha in…
New Hydro Wizard 42 Pro Coming Soon From Panta Rhei
The Hydro Wizard series of powerful internal propeller aquarium pumps are in a class of their own, with the smaller HW 42 making plenty of waves in reef tanks. With the pump having been battle tested on real reef tanks…
Aquaforest Protein Skimmers use double cones and AquaBee pumps
The Aquaforest Protein skimmers are the latest pieces of tech from a new company that has mostly been making foods, salt and additives. What we like about the Aquaforest Protein Skimmers is their massive bubble diffuser plate, which is concentrated…
Oxycheilinus samurai, a new wrasse species with the coolest name
Oxycheilinus samurai, the Samurai Wrasse is a new species of reef fish from the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, and Panay Islands of Philippines. Among the maori wrasses of the Oxycheilinus genus O. samurai is a slender species, but not quite…