The JNS ConeS protein skimmers are an interesting take on the long road to make our skimmers less and less turbulent. By now you should have already noticed that the JNS ConeS skimmers has the namesake of having multiple cones…
Larger Pacific Striped Octopus is rediscovered, comes from Nicaragua
The Larger Pacific Striped Octopus is one extraordinary cephalopod that has been known about before, but somehow fell into obscurity despite it’s overwhelming awesomeness as a living creature. In the Photo above by Roy Caldwell you can easily see that…
Avast Auto Top Off (ATO) gets digital inputs to play nice with controllers
the Avast ATO auto top off peristaltic pump was just introduced about tow months ago but already they’ve gone ahead and supersized its capabilities. The Avast ATO Deluxe now also includes digital input for all your favorite controllers. The Avast…
NanoBox Reef Mini LED gets dressed up in gooseneck
Just a couple months ago NanoBox Reef teased the first look at their new forthcoming NBR Mini LED which is about the size of your hand, but with a tight cluster of LEDs that can still rock your nano. NanoBox…
MRC hybrid aquariums are glass, acrylic & PVC bottom tanks to die for
With some of the best crafted acrylic products in the aquarium world, hybrid aquariums are exactly where we’d like for My Reef Creation to apply their talents. MRC’s been making calcium reactors, small protein skimmers, large protein skimmers and professional…
Saving Giants, new Ebook on giant clams by Gerald Heslinga available now
When we first got wind of Gerald Heslinga’s new book on giant clams, Saving Giants was an obligatory download to our iPad ebook collection; the giant clam authority and IPSF frontman knows a thing or two about Tridacnids. Little did…
Five live peppermint Angelfish make their way to Blue Harbor Japan
Somewhere in Osaka Japan, down deep in the fish conditioning vault of Blue Harbor Aquariums, rests no less than five little treasures from the Pacific Ocean, the illustrious peppermint angelfish, Paracentropyge boylei. The quintet of holy grail reef fish arrived…
AI’s new controller firmware version 2 unlocks a motherlode of features
The super popular AI vega LED light has just been endowed with a bumper crop of new and exciting features thanks to a free firmware update to the feature-rich new AI Controller. With version 2 of the AI Controller, you…
Blue Squamosa Clams down to $99 at Old Town Aquarium, Chicago
The Blue Squamosa clam was once the holy grail of Tridacna giant clams, virtually never seen in the aquarium world until a trickle of specimens began to be imported earlier last year. The first few handfuls of the blue squammies…
Lytro underwater housing allows first coral reef light field photos
An underwater housing for the Lytro camera has been all that was stopping the pioneering light field camera from documenting real reefs with the new photographic dimension, until now. The Lytro camera which we’ve thoroughly used to document light field…