The aptly named ReefToys has released some teasers about their forthcoming crop of new media and zeolite reactor designs. Considering that a typical media reactor is a simple tube with water going in one end and out the other, the…
Four new species of Eviota gobies from French Polynesia
Four new species of Eviota dwarf gobies have just been described from French Polynesia. Although the new tiny reef fish are probably very beautiful in real life, Alive, all we have to go on is a handful of images of these fish…
New PAR38 LED gives 40 watts of light across a diverse spectrum
Coral Compulsion’s latest 40 watt LED PAR38 spotlight is the first significant development in this form factor that we’ve reported on in a long time. With an all new super-beefy heatsink and actively fan cooled from within, the new 40PAR38…
Granddad, the oldest aquarium fish ever just turned 80 years old
If you thought that 40 year old sixbar angelfish is old, then let us introduce you to Granddad. Granddad is an Australian Lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, living at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago who is more than 80, eight-zero, years old. Granddad…
MicMol Aqua Mini LED light uses neat reflectors and modern styling design cues
MicMol is a new company coming out of left field with an incredibly promising new LED design with their Aqua Mini and Aqua Pro LED aquarium fixtures. Milled from a solid block of aluminum, the CNC-routed MicMol lights are their…
Flower anemones are totally HOT right now!
Flower anemones have been part of the saltwater aquarium hobby since before there even was a Reef aquarium hobby. They’ve always been around, at all the fishstores – in grey, brown, greenish and occasionally with a little bit of orange coloration…
Avast Marine Vibe and ARR Reactors bring vibrator technology to reef tanks
The Avast Marine Vibe are some new media devices which incorporate a degree of vibration in order to either clean calcium reactor media or zeolites in a zeoreactor set up. We gotta give Avast Marine for continuing to impress us in…
We just can’t get enough of the Cocopeel’s intense blue eyes!
‘Cocopeel’ is our personal shorthand for Cocos Island, Indian Ocean, Lemonpeel Angelfish, Centropyge flavissima. This highly unusual variant of a common aquarium fish hides an evolutionary rift from the standard-issue lemonpeel angelfish which goes back thousands of years, and its tiny,…
Cobalt Aquatics NeoFlow is a pretty capable mid-size reef aquarium propeller pump
The NeoFlow may not be the first adjustable DC propeller pump for aquariums, but it is the most deserving of providing previous flow to our aquarium corals and fish. With a host of new, innovative features, the NeoFlow blows past…
Xanthichthys greenei is the official name of the Christmas Island Kiri triggerfish
Xanthichthys greenei is now the official name given to the popular ‘Kiri’ triggerfish that has been an infrequent collection for aquariums. Over the past four years or so the Christmas Island triggerfish has gone by the provisional Xanthichthys ‘dorsopunctatus’ and X. kiritimati but…