RVS 4 Star Mariculture Coral Farm has just struck ground on coral and frag farming in the Philippines, the first project of its kind which promises to have a huge impact on wild and aquarium reefs. Located inside the marine park of Lubang…
Quadspec V2 LED brings much needed color enhancements to PAR LED spotlights
As LED fixtures have improved in recent years, screw-in LED spotlights have somewhat fallen by the wayside but that doesn’t mean they’ve gone away. The QuadSpec V2 LED spotlights from MarineReefLED are a new line of small, medium and large…
Enjoy this tank full of crazy rare reef fish
This incredible reef aquarium maintained by Blue Harbor Japan is chock full of the world’s crazy rare reef fish, plenty enough to buy a luxury car with. Populated by one of a kind piscine critters this aquarium is home to…
Do you test for O2? JBL’s new TestLab Marin kit suggests you should
The JBL TestLab Marin is a full fledged test kit for saltwater use which already included pH, KH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, Copper, Calcium, Magnesium, Silicate, Phosphate and now also includes Oxygen. The updated TestLab Marin added oxygen to the mix…
Fiji Hypercolor Zoanthids have a wild range of colors
Eye Catching Coral just sent over some pictures of a Fiji Zoanthid discovered with wildly colored tentacles. Like the Hypercolor shirts from the nineties, these Fiji Zoanthids have an indeterminate color pattern which extends from the mouth, to the oral disc…
Phishy Business reef aquarium is an exemplary coral display
When you’re in the reef aquarium retail business setting up a display reef tank is not about breaking records or having the biggest, brightest hardest to grow and keep stony corals. So many fishstores set up unremarkable aquarium displays, it has…
StarkLED Flare can be pieced together for mega aquarium fixtures
The Flare LED striplight from StarkLED is an interesting conceptual light bar which aims to allow users to mix and match to their heart’s content. The StarkLED Flare is a basic striplight with a deep heatsink and ten 3W LEDs…
A rare look at the virtually never seen young Kingi Angelfish
If Kingi Angelfish are one of the holy grails of Pomacanthid lovers then the juvenile Apolemichthys kingi takes that notion up a notch. Like other members of the genus Apolemichthys, the Kingi or Tiger angelfish undergoes a dramatic transformation from the juvenile to…
Sola NightSea LED Dive light exposes fluorescent reef life
The Sola NightSea LED Dive light is a collaboration between the masters of underwater lighting Light & Motion and the pioneers of fluorescence viewing and imaging, NightSea. Built on the super high performance Sola 1200 LED dive light, the Sola NightSea…
Coral crabs aid ailing corals, combat disease
We as aquarists have always believed that coral crabs are mostly positive in their interactions with stony corals. The colorful smooth shelled ones are pretty and probably keep Tegastes and acro eating flatworms at bay, and we know that they…