Some minor mutations in reef fish might give a specimen an extra bar, a broken stripe, or a weird inflection on the overall color but this black face regal blue tang has a mutation which adds a lot of character.…
Digital Aquatics Lifeguard dishes up pH, temperature and water level monitoring
The Digital Aquatics Lifeguard is a brand new aquarium monitoring device that aims to make it dead simple for users to remotely keep tabs on aquarium pH, temperature and water level. For just $219, the Digital Aquatics Lifeguard monitors all three of these parameters…
New Tuamotu reef fish exports could increase supply of west Pacific species
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqOTUmpB2og[/youtube] It was an awesome day when we began seeing Tuamotu Maxima clams, but we could hardly contain ourselves when we learned from Sea Dwelling Creatures that they would begin receiving fish exported from this far flung region…
Mazarra X LED spied behind the scenes of ReefStock
[vimeo width=”680″ height=”400″]http://vimeo.com/38447234[/vimeo] The Mazarra X will be MaxSpect’s next iteration of their flagship LED light fixture, following in the footsteps of the Mazarra P and S series. There’s so much going on at ReefStock every year, it’s hard to…
Digital Aquatics Lifeguard device promises next generation ‘peace of mind’
We’ve just learned that the Digital Aquatics Lifeguard is a new device that will be launching at the Marine Aquarium Expo in a couple of weeks. Although Digital Aquatics has been keeping quiet and laying low over the last year…
Incredible ‘living pictures’ of a coral reef aquarium using a Lytro light field camera
https://pictures.lytro.com/JakeAdams/pictures/40040 The Lytro light field camera just started shipping to pre-orders last week and we couldn’t wait to take ours for a spin on the wonderful world of reef tanks, corals and fish aquariums. In case you haven’t heard, the Lytro…
CAD Lights Conic BioReactor now fitted for three ways of control
It’s been barely two months since CAD Lights released their Conic BioReactor, yet they have so much feedback from power users of biopellets that they’ve come up with an ingenious solution for fine tuning flow through, tumbling, and feed water…
AquaticLife LED Marine Light Fixture gets PAR values all kinds of mapped out
Whether you want to know the color spread of the LEDs, or the given PAR value at a particular depth, AquaticLife has taken great care to put together a complete data set to their LED Marine Light Fixture. With a…
Denistar from Coral Shop is a kriesel of biological filtration
The Denistar from Coral-Shop and Coral Planet is an interesting new spin on biological filtration that enhances biological filtration using the principles of a kreizel aquarium, sort of. Whereas the typical biological reactor forces water through media and a biopellet reactor…
Second version of Full Spectrum Edition EcoLamps KR93 gets an impressive demo video
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIj7PGFo4G0[/youtube] We’ve seen our fair share of demo videos for aquarium products, especially for reef aquarium led lights but none of them can hold a candle to this moody, dramatic clip by 1.023 World showing the second version…