The H2Overflow and Siphon Stopper are two very novel new aquarium plumbing parts from Custom Aquariums. The company specializes in aqarium installations and maintenance and their years of experience have led them to develop these two new plumbing parts because they…
Newa ‘More’ all in one aquarium includes a sensible air driven skimmer
The Newa More all in one aquarium is a modestly small aquarium from the Italian division of Newa which was formerly associated with the French Aquarium Systems. The Newa More doesn’t exactly stand out in a crowded field but that’s…
The Aquatic Experience in Chicago this weekend is NOT to be missed!
Last year the World Pet Association set about to create a brand new, all-aquarium event that incorporated nearly all facets of the aquarium hobby and aquatic industry. As a first year show we didn’t know what to expect from a…
Italian reefers are really into phytoplankton reactors
On our recent reefing tour of Italy we expected many things, great food, stylish reef aquarium setups and an overall easy-going laid back atmosphere. We got to see all of those things but what we didn’t expect to see was so…
Giesemann’s LED/T5 hybrid light is a sign of things to come
It’s a very curious thing that with the advent of LED reef aquarium lighting, most early adopters opted to dive into the deep end of solid state lighting with LEDs. For some reason, the lesson learned of combining metal halide…
CoralFriend’s newest video shows three of the rarest angelfish together
The video may not be the smoothest, it’s a little shaky and the colors undersaturated but any marine angelfish fan will immediately recognize that this aquarium contains three of the rarest of the rare Pomacanthids. Dr. Chung Wing Hung’s collection…
Three new species of dwarf gobies from the Cayman Islands
A new paper recently published in the Journal of Ocean Science Foundation is a doozy of an article with an incredible wealth of information on the dwarf gobies of the Cayman Islands. The primary intent of the paper was to…
Porous coral skeletons are great surrogates for bone grafts
The Israeli desert is not exactly where you’d expect to find a coral farm, so far from the Red Sea, but in the Negev desert is precisely where OkCoral has set up their coral farming operation. Unlike the typical coral…
Reefscapes Model Series from Tropical Marine Centre will be available this month
One of the funnest “new products” of Interzoo earlier this year was easily the ReefScape Model Series by Tropical Marine Centre in association with BrightBricks, the UK’s only LEGO®Certified Professional. While you could theoretically put the ReefScape fish and critters…
Does the surface area of live rock really matter?
The reef aquarium hobby is a past time of expendable income and mental bandwidth; this explains why even though the focus is supposed to be about reef life like corals, fish and inverts, we get sucked into long esoterical discussions…