A new company called Printed Reefing Solutions has a refreshing new catalog of innovative marine aquarium accessories. As the name implies, PRS uses 3D printing technology to create some really neat aquarium devices, none of them earth-shattering, but oh so…
Centropyge flavipectoralis, the hidden beauty of the yellow fin angelfish
Centropyge flavipectoralis, aka the yellow fin pygmy angelfish, is a little known species from the Indian Ocean. C. flavipectoralis is well documented throughout its range from the Maldives, India and Sri Lanka but more recently, some individuals have been imported…
Acropora horrida wows us with a green tip version
Acropora horrida is hands-down, one of the most beautiful and colorful species of Acropora available to aquarists, and it is also fairly common throughout Indo-Pacific reefs. ‘Horrida’ was one of the first Acros we drooled over from pictures of this…
Fabulous frogfish and crimson Rhinopias appear at Bali Aquarium
When it comes to our saltwater aquariums, pretty little reef fish and fancy corals are mostly what catches our fancy. So you can imagine how sensational a predatory reef fish would have to be to qualify as worthy of sharing with…
Stereonephthya, portrait of an uncommon soft coral
Stereonephthya is an uncommon soft coral which is seriously underrated, both as an aquarium coral, and as a unique member of the coral reef community. The simplest way to describe Stereonephthya is that it’s the lovechild of photosynthetic Nephthea and…
Red Sea MAX E Series will use Hydra 26 HD LED lighting
The Red Sea MAX E series all in one aquarium with open top design and LED lighting was first revealed at InterZoo in Germany in May of 2014. The new tanks are finally fully fleshed out in two sizes, the…
ONF Flat One LED light takes a design-first approach
The Flat One LED light from ONF Lighting in Taiwan is an interesting aquarium light which aims to make your aquarium look really good. Taking a design-first approach, the Flat One LED is precisely two feet long, 62.5cm, and with…
The story of how Pseudojuloides severnsi was discovered
The royal pencil wrasse, Pseudojuloides severnsi, is one of the most striking species of labrids, one that quite single handedly puts the pencil wrasses on the proverbial map. Once considered to be a very difficult species to keep in aquariums, as…
Cherry-picking fresh Acros right from the Coral Farm
Cherry picking corals from an ocean based coral farm is very much like picking ripe fruit from a tree. Otherwise known as mariculture, growing corals in the ocean offers the same advantages and disadvantages as growing of food crops. On one…
Lutjanus xanthopinnis, a new snapper species described from the Indo-Pacific
Lutjanus xanthopinnis is a new species of snapper that has just been described and joins a large complex of snappers with a pattern of yellow lines. Generally speaking, the yellow finned snapper looks more like something you might eat than keep…