The NicoBAR LED Striplight is a newer aquarium light that we’ve cautiously been keeping an eye on over the last several months. These strong supplemental lights have been making some appearances around our local scene and retail stores and while…
Gobiodon howsoni, a New Species of Clown Goby from Australia
Gobiodon howsoni is a new species of clown goby just described from the Rowley Shoals of northwestern Australia. The new coral-dwelling goby is as small as other similar species of Gobiodon growing to less than one inch long with the type…
CSPro with Calanus & Spirulina is our New Favorite Flake Food
It’s been more than five years since we first learned of CSPro Flakes from AquaLife but only recently have we come to fall in love with this unique flake food. We’d have the same reaction as you reading this if…
Falling in Love With This Blue-tip Yellow Acropora millepora
Like many of you we haven’t been able to browse corals for sale at our local fish store or at reef conferences like we used to, for quite some time. To fill in the gap we’ve taken to ‘browser shopping’…
Truncatoflabellum veroni Bouquet at Gallery Aquatica
The reef aquarium hobby is overwhelmingly dominated by photosynthetic coral species but azooxanthellate corals are incredibly abundant and diverse, just not so much in the shallow waters where ornamental corals are collected. One of the exceptions is the very interesting…
Kessil A500X LED Review – Changing our Mind About Point Source Lighting
The Kessil A500X is a brand new reef aquarium light that is packed with more power than we’ve ever seen in a spotlight form factor. From their earliest days, Kessil has come to define what is possible with light-emitting diodes…
Panta Rhei is Reinventing the Closed Loop with an all NEW Pump Design
Closed Loops are a forgotten art form of water movement in the reef aquarium space, providing incredible flow rates throughout the aquarium while removing the equipment from the primary display tank. But unlike propeller pumps which can be easily placed…
This is NOT a Blueface X Sixbar, it’s a Sixbar x Blueface Hybrid
A month ago we wrote about a super rare example of a hybrid Pomacanthus angelfish which was a cross between the blueface angelfish and the sixbar angelfish. Once again the filipino collectors have fished up an awesome hybrid angelfish specimen…
We Tanked our pH Using Automation, but the Fix is Simple
For the last few years we’ve been part of a cabal urging reefers to really push their aquarium pH ever higher to achieve robust stony coral growth. There are lots of little things you can do to elevate the pH…
The Stony Coral Jungle Reef Tank of Evan Montgomery
Evan Montgomery has been reefing for quite a while and during his time assisting at the Reef Builders Studio he’s sharpened his reef building skills even more. We’ve featured Mr.Montgomery’s reef tank a couple times over the years but this…