The candy cane hogfish of the Terelabrus genus are curious and colorful reef fish with the potential to be an awesome reef aquarium inhabitant. With a body shape and size fallin halfway between a wrasse and a hogfish, the candy hogfish is small…
Movie Time: Get to know the Reef Life of the Andaman Sea in this feature length video
It’s Friday night and if you feel like staying in, perhaps snuggling with your boo, or if your Netflix queue is looking uninteresting, here’s a full length nature movie to burn a couple hours of your evening/weekend. Within aquarium circles the Andaman…
Panorama Pro 2.0 sheds three watts and drops by $20
It was a pleasant surprise this morning to be greeted of news of the new and improved Panorama Pro LED 2.0 bringing it with a refinement of the Ecoxotic LED striplight. Now priced at just $69, the Panorama Pro LED…
This blue Mini Maxi anemone was too irresistible to pass up
While the Mini Maxi carpet anemone craze was in full swing we sat on the sidelines watching all these wonderful little cnidarians making their way into aquariums. We’ve always been fond of the tee-ninesy little micro carpets that Gary Majchrzak first…
Sicce Syncra Silent 4 & 5 are quiet enough to be approved for living room use
When Sicce approached us about reviewing their new and improved Sicce Syncra 4&5 water pumps we were a little bit hesitant; we already have nearly all of our sumped aquariums equipped with Sicce Syncra pumps. Our primary large fish aquarium,…
Royal Exclusiv now selling pumps and sumps direct on its slick new website
In a new development which is sure to excite the reef aquarium gearheads, Royal Exclusiv has just given its dusty old geocities-era website a complete makeover with more than a superficial outcome. On the new RoyalExclusiv.net website you’ll find a modern web…
Vincent Chalias, Bali Coral Farmer extraordinaire, will be a speaker at MACNA 2013
You may not know Vincent Chalias directly but if you’ve been an active coral reef keeper in the last decade, chances are you’ve handled some of his corals and may have some in your tank right now. For fifteen years…
Tomiyamichthys smithi is the largest showy goby you’ve never even heard of
Tomiyamichthys smithi is just one of many different species of larger shrimp gobies from this little known genus. Although not as colorful as the shrimp associated gobies in the genus Cryptocentrus, the Monster Shrimpgoby genus Tomiyamichthys includes many different fish with complicated…
Jawbreaker mushroom anemone is the most incredible captive strain of Corallimorph
The Jawbreaker mushroom anemone is a corallimorph that has persisted as a desirable aquarium species in the American reef scene and is still highly sought after by collectors of brightly colored corals. If someone had told us 15 years ago that…
Plectranthias garrupellus – Apricot Bass is a virtually unknown deepwater Caribbean reef fish
Plectranthias garrupellus also known as the Apricot Bass is a pretty wonderful little reef fish that came to only recently came to life with pictures of living specimens. For being a member of the popular Plectranthias genus of aquarium fish it’s…