Two years ago, Innovative Marine introduced the Nuvo Shallow Reef Series as one of the most ambitious line of all in one aquariums. Today Innovative Marine is introducing a fresh handful of new upgrades to the entire line, with dramatic…
10 generations of Aqua Illumination LED lights
Aqua Illumination is the oldest aquarium company around today that has always been specifically dedicated to designing and building LED reef aquarium lights. This week we travelled to Aqua Illumination headquarters to spend some time with the crew, wrap our…
Plectranthias sp. Curacao is in the good hands of Blue Harbor
The new species of Plectranthias that was recently collected from Curacao is probably the first of its kind to make it into a home aquarium. We first featured this fish with a post from Joe Oliver at the source, and…
Indonesian BPKM official threatens to stop issuing live coral permits
Indonesia is far and away the largest supplier of beautiful and diverse coral for the global marine aquarium trade than anywhere else in the world. live corals as so inextricably associated with Indonesia that when we were a wee young…
Mandarin shark is alive and well in this feeding video
The Mandarin Shark that swept the aquarium and shark world by storm last week is alive and well at Country Critters in Long Island, New York. Despite being harvested from the deep waters of the Northern Philippines just about a…
E5 Retro Series LED tubes swap out with T5HO lamps
E5 Retro Series LED tubes are a new light from Euroquatics which are directly swappable with high output T5 fluorescent tubes. If you’ve ever wanted to use LEDs but are already heavily invested in a T5HO fixture, the Euroquatics E5…
Another look at the captive-bred emperor x annularis angelfish hybrid
Bali Aquarich is far and away the world leader in breeding marine angelfishes in captivity. With that experience they’ve offered at least seven full blooded species of large angelfishes from the Pomacanthus, Holacanthus and Chaetodontoplus genera, but they’ve also gotten really lucky…
A.R.I.D. chaetomorpha macroalgae scrubbers from Pax-Bellum
The marine aquarium hobby is always on the lookout for ever simpler and more effective ways to reduce nutrients in our tanks. The A.R.I.D. devices from Pax-Bellum are a new way to apply intensive macroalgae scrubbing to nutrient reduction, making…
ORA is serving up some fantastic hybrid maxima clams
Clams are some of the most fascinating members of the coral reef community, and they are especially welcomed in our home aquaria. Today we have access to more varieties of Tridacna than ever, and ORA is piling on one more new…
ESV B-Ionic Transition Elements Plus
ESV is one of the most trusted brands in aquarium additive and elemental dosing, and they’ve got a new product coming out to further refine our aquarium water chemistry management. B-Ionic Transition Elements Plus is a new additive coming soon…