There’s been a lot of confusion regarding the keeping of surgeonfish in reef aquaria especially when it comes to keeping multiple specimens and several different species within the same tank. Experienced reefers have never had a problem keeping a yellow…
Help Us in Making #LFSSaturday an ‘Aquarium Holiday’
Ever year, just before the black friday and cyber monday deals, we make a plea to the greater aquarium community to do something for their local reef scene and support their local fish stores. A few years ago we started…
Hybrid Reef Fish and Corals Are Much More Common Than We Knew
For over a decade we’ve been fascinated by hybrid marine life of all kinds and especially the ways that our beloved clownfish, angelfish, and many others turn out when their genetics get recombined in unexpected ways. While hybrid creatures may…
Kessil Landscape Lights Hint at Possible Future Aquarium Offerings
If you needed any more convincing that Kessil is the dominant leader in the spotlight form factor for biological LED illumination, you needn’t look any further than their new ‘Landscape’ offerings. Building on the powerful and capable A360X and A500X…
What is a True Platygyra Maze Brain Coral?
Despite what they are being called, most maze brain corals in the reef aquarium hobby are not actually Platygyra at all, but a different and distinctive species called Paragoniastrea australiensis or Paragon coral for short. The reasons for the misidentification are too numerous…
Sending Our Own Corals to EcoTech Marine [Video]
You’ve seen us ‘Bob Rossing’ up our reef tanks and picking out corals from the growout systems to plant into the display tanks before, but the purpose of this video is surprisingly different. Last week we travelled to Bethlehem Pennsylvania…
New Alpha LED Lamp from PacificSun
The Alpha LED light is a new aquarium fixture design from PacificSun with an impressive peak power of 215 watts. While the fixture itself might be mostly a box design, PacificSun is trying out a new LED layout in the…
Aquarium LED Lighting Pioneer Chris Jung Gone Too Soon
Chris Jung was a man of many talents – he was known as a loving husband, a caring father, an ambitious entrepreneur, but in addition to being our friend he was an aquarium LED lighting pioneer. Long before most of…
Chromis sahulensis & C. norfolkensis, Two More New Damselfish Species
Chromis norfolkensis and C. sahulensis are two new species of one of our favorite group of reef animals, the damselfishes. Like several of the most recently described species of Chromis especially, the new species have been teased apart from other common and well…
Could ‘Electric Glass’ Enable a Futuristic Aquarium Concept?
It would be easy to look at the promotional images for Cohda’s Power Tap glass featured above and below and just think that these are simply modern-chic designs with lots of glass, minimalism and smooth surfaces. But if you look…