If you want to understand why the coral reefs of the Caribbean went from wonderful to wasteland, a lot of the ecological change seems to hinge on a plague that nearly wiped out Diadema sea urchins in 1983. With that idea…
The Persian Gulf is hiding a treasure trove of brilliant Azoox corals
In the Ocean, and especially with corals, there’s still plenty left for us to discover, such as these incredibly Azoox corals being collected in the Middle East. When we first received this crop of images from a coral collector in…
AcroOptics set to reveal a totally new kind of LED fixture
AcroOptics is a spankin’ new LED light company based in nearby Boulder, Colorado which is undertaking a radically different approach to making the ultimate LED aquarium fixture. When we spotted one of their prototypes at Aqua Imports, an LFS in…
Caribbean Coral Reefs used to be made up of fields of coral
The concept of shifting baselines is an important one in reef ecology which basically describes how successive generations of researchers have their own ideas of what constitutes a healthy or a natural reef. Nowhere is this concept more important than…
Centropyge deborae video shows this cryptic fish closer than ever
Once we get a lock on a relatively poorly known reef fish or coral, our short term infatuation is not over until we’ve thoroughly documented the specimen with great write ups, great photographs, and especially a movie. Our subject today…
ADA starting work on the largest Nature Aquarium in the world
If you think you’ve seen a big tank before, just wait until you get a load of the behemoth Nature Aquarium going up in the Lisbon Aquarium this year. Aqua Design Amano has been commissioned to build the largest Nature…
AquaMedic Evo 500 protein skimmer is granted controllable powers
AquaMedic’s Evo 500 is a new protein skimmers that is powered with a controllable DC pump. Compared to the AquaMedic Turboflotor Blu 500, the Evo 500 does away with the primary-school blue plastic pieces in favor of much easier on…
Underwater crop circle-building pufferfish officially described as Torquigener albomaculosus
Pufferfish seem to make headlines for all kinds of interesting behaviors from chasing lasers, apparently mourning the loss of a friend, and especially for helping dolphins to get high. But no pufferfish behavior garnered more attention than the elaborate “underwater…
Deepwater Aquatics BLDC pumps brings high end refinments to controllable DC pumps
There’s a huge number of relabelled controllable DC pumps available to the aquarium market today, but Deepwater Aquatics is hoping their BLDC pump has enough new and higher end features to rise to the top. Much like the Wavelines and…
Coralific Delite from Hikari
Following up on their Coral Gumbo frozen food for corals, Hikari is coming at us with their new Coralific Delite, a prepared food which is designed to be fed two different ways. Despite its stoner name, Coralific Delite is an interesting take on…