The Elos Elite3S is one of the most high profile product unveilings of InterZoo 2012 and what we saw certainly did not disappoint. A bevy of mounting options, modular LEDs and secondary optics, active and silent cooling coupled with the…
Giesemann Teszla hands-on is a piece of LED art
Giesemann’s Teszla LED light looks as beautiful as anything Giesemann has ever made, and even more beautiful in real life than renders and product shots could ever convey. The first forays into LED lighting by Giesemann included the Quazar and…
Blue Squamosa clams appear in small batch at Renaissance Aquatics
Ah the Blue Squamosa Clam, the rarest color form of the widely available Tridacna squamosa is almost never seen, but a “big” batch of these rare gems is already in the United States. Any given year, we may see one,…
XenoXon Coral Dongo skimmer is well built with a hardened-foam mesh-wheel impeller
XenoXon is a new company from Hungary making unique skimmers and LED lights which we first encountered at InterZoo 2012. The protein skimmer landscape in the marine aquarium industry may be dominated by manufacturers from China, Germany and America, but…
Hybrid tinkers and fourspot butterflyfish from Wayne’s Ocean World
Tinker’s butterflyfish is one of the most highly sought after Chaetodon species so a hybrid of this magnificent fish is quite a sight to behold. The image of the hybrid Tinker’s butterflyfish above was shared with us by Wayne’s Ocean World…
Black Foxface, Siganus niger: you haven’t seen a rabbitfish like this
The black foxface, Siganus niger from Fiji is a fish we’ve heard about, read about, but never seen or documented in aquaria until last week. The black Foxface comes only from Tonga, but just over a restricted range centered around the northernmost islands…
SolarStinger LED SunStrips by EconLux use an army of diodes for best color and spread
The SolarStinger LED Sunstrip by Econlux is a medium intensity LED striplight that, like the Sicce LED and Fluval LED striplight, produces its photon through strength in numbers. In lieu of using fewer high output one or three watt LEDs, the…
Captive bred Lipogramma klayi successfully raised by Todd Gardner
Lipogramma klayi is an amazing deepwater basslet whose deepwater price has kept it out of the mainstream, but Todd Gardner has just reported successful breeding this stunning species. Since Lipogramma klayi has to be careful collected in very deep water in Curacao,…
GARF founder Leroy Headlee passed away, glue a frag for Leroy
Leroy Headlee, the co-founder and director of the infamous Geothermal Aquaculture Research Foundation (GARF) passed away on Memorial Day leaving behind a legacy in the coral aquarium hobby which is undeniable. We never knew Leroy, spoke to him on the…
Guess what humphead parrotfish use that giant hump head for
The green humphead parrotfish, Bolbometopon muricatum, is a four foot coral-chowing bulldozer that can weigh up to a hundred and fifty pounds (70 Kg). There are many different species of reef fish that have humps and protuberances of some kind but…