The Grassy Solare LED fixtures first announced by Volx Japan earlier this summer are now officially available with a baseline of features departing from the norm. Volx Japan is best known for making the first crop of higher performing LeDio…
Robofish – these small fish robots are about as cheap as the toy they are
There exists countless examples of toy and robot fish but besides those giant lighter than air fish-blimps, these new little robofish are actually cheap enough to be an impulse buy. Debuted at the Tokyo Toy Fair the small Robofish are…
New video of the CAD Lights pipeless skimmer reveals the pipe-free trick
The CAD Lights Pipeless skimmer is one of the more unique and unusual protein skimmer designs to surface in quite some time. Although we’ve known about the Pipeless for some a little while it’s only now that we have uncovered how the new…
Sharkman’s Megalodon and Great White pumps look strikingly similar to Tunze Stream
The Megalodon and Great white pumps from “Sharkman” are a pair of powerful prop pumps from China with more than a little bit in common with the Turbelle Stream pumps from Tunze. The ball shape, spheroid holder-mount and even the…
JBJ Unibody LED review – simply one of the best aquarium lights for corals
As long as the JBJ Unibody LED aquarium fixture has been around we’ve been using one on our personal 28 gallon nano reef tank. This aquarium has been using exclusively LEDs for more than three years, many of the corals have grown…
Orange polyp purple Porites is the prize of our most recent coral hunting
One of our favorite aspects of having a coral reef aquarium is going coral hunting – not seeking out the most gaudy, rare or expensive coral colonies before anyone else but really having an eye for that overlooked piece of…
ATI LED PowerModule – there’s really no other aquarium light like this one
As much as LEDs have steamed ahead in the aquarium world, and with so many T5 diehards sticking to their light of choice we are still flabbergasted at the complete dearth of combination lights including both light emitting diodes and high…
Apogon webpage really shows uncommon cardinalfish in splendid glory
There’s so many species of cardinalfish in the sea it’s a pity that only a a fraction of them are represented in decent number in the marine and reef aquarium. Seems like banggais, pyjamas and longspine cardinalfish represent the lion’s…
Third recent Tigerpyge collected from Bali
Of all the hybrid angelfish out there the Tigerpyge stands gills and fins above the rest for the most stunning amalgamation of features from two dissimilar species. Resulting from the cross of a Centropyge eibli and Centropyge flavissima (the Indian…
New Apex firmware Dashboard hits beta release (video demo)
After remaining one of the most popular and widely used aquarium controllers over the last few years, Neptune Systems is aiming to keep the Apex on top with a new firmware revision that delivers a stunning new firmware dashboard. Although…