The reef aquarium industry has been battling the efforts to ban the collection of Hawaiian fish for over ten years and earlier this year our worst fears came to pass. Without a shred of evidence or any tangible environmental impact…
This Specimen is a Great Candidate for a Queen X Rock Beauty Hybrid
Hybrid angelfish and finding them is one of the more interesting aspects to being a fan of the more than one hundred species of the most colorful and interesting fish on tropical coral reefs. Sometimes the hybrids are very obvious…
How To Glue Corals in Your Reef Tank [Video]
We don’t know what reefers would do if somehow cyanoacrylate super glue was toxic to our reef life and saltwater aquariums. Thankfully it’s not because this wonder material is one of the single most important tools we use to build…
Hotumatua Angelfish Glows in New In-Situ Photograph
The Hotumatua angelfish, Centropyge hotumatua, is a gorgeous species of pygmy angelfish that was once somewhat available in the aquarium hobby, but it has been all but absent for at least fifteen years. The reason for their absence is due to…
Big Changes Coming to Australian Coral Exports
Australia has become one of the world’s biggest suppliers of live corals and this aquarium source became crucial to filling the gap when exports of all Indonesian corals were suspended. The availability of high quality, exotic and endemic corals from…
Here’s Your Reef Therapy About High Coral Prices
If you’re just getting into the reef aquarium hobby, you might be astounded at the prices that some corals are going for. However if you’ve been in the reef aquarium hobby, you will certainly have noticed that in general, coral prices…
How to Really Take Advantage of the New Kessil A500X LED Spotlight
There’s a lot of innovation happening in the reef aquarium lighting space with new fixtures announced with hybrid induction lamps, movable LED clusters, but the first one we’ve gotten our hands on is Kessil’s powerful A500X LED Spotlight. We’ve been…
The Best Video of Centropyge nahackyi Ever!
Centropyge nahackyi is a gorgeous colorful pygmy angelfish from the central Pacific Ocean that is rarely seen by aquarists or divers since it lives mostly outside the ranges of where people visit natural coral reefs. The Nahacky angelfish has a…
Solartronic Coming Next Month Multiaxis Gimbal Control
The Solartronic is the new name of a light fixture from Focustronic that we’ve known about for three years when it was originally revealed as the Focus 2 at InterZoo 2018. Focustronic first got its start in the aquarium hobby…
NPS Leptoseris Found in Underwater Caves of the Indian Ocean
Leptoseris was once a completely overlooked group of corals in the aquarium world but recent years have seen an explosion of appreciation for these low light corals. Over the years reef builders have come to understand that these plating and encrusting…