The Professional External Filter series from Hydor is a class of next generation canister filters. The rectangular footprint of the Professional External Filter and tight fitting baskets is a hallmark of Japanese style canister filters on which they are based.…
Phoenix Montipora from Route 66 is M. danae on fire
Montipora danae is a name that has often been misapplied to a range of montis with bumps, including superman, rainbow, pokerstar and just about any wild montipora with a somewhat bumpy surface. But here we have a picture perfect Montipora danae…
Critter Torch LED flashlight lets you sneak up on your reef
The Critter Torch from MarineReefLED may not make the reef gearheads swoon with excitement but if you want to see cool stuff in your reef tank at night, you’re going to need some form of red light. Part of being…
ORA’s clownfish car spotted in the wild, looks great in motion
A funny thing happened while we were in Florida last week. In addition to making it a point to visit a very special pair of fish (more on those later), we also made our inaugural tour of ORA’s impressive aquaculture…
AI Powerpuck LEDs up for preorder, shipping in April
The AI Powerpuck is so close to making the Vega the most customizable LED reef aquarium light ever that we can almost taste it. If twenty LED channels of control isn’t enough to get you hot and bothered about the…
How much would it cost to build an aquarium out of Sapphire?
Step aside Starphire, Sapphires are where it’s at! A recent article in Technology Review claims that in synthetic sapphire could be in the market to replace the glass cover of our smartphones, which got us to thinking, why not our…
AquaticLife outlet store offers refurbished lights for cheap
AquaticLife has been selling lights by the container load for many years now, and over that time they have invariably accumulated some extra lights that they have fixed. IN a move that is rare in the aquarium world but common…
Accuprobe Hydrometers from Aquarium Solutions are individually calibrated
The AccuProbe Hydrometer and Mini Hydrometer are an interesting take on the old plastic specific gravity tester. At first glance the full size AccuProbe looks more or less like the Coralite Deep Six hydrometer which was introduced over a decade…
Lanthanum Reactor from derKroon Mechanics is specially designed for phosphate reduction
Lanthanum ‘Reactors’ have up until now been a very poorly known and specialized piece of equipment which has until now lived mostly in the ghetto-fabulous shadows. To help them make a mark on the reef scene, derKroon Mechanics has designed…
Animated GIFs of aquariums and fish from around the web
Recently, Google enabled a feature which allows image searches to be filtered based on type including animated GIFs. Naturally we set off to see what kind of cool moving GIFs existed to show cool scenes of aquariums, fish and related…