We are stoked to see new pics of Genicanthus takeuchi hybrid at a larger size and as an added bonus we’ve even found a video of a halfgrown male spotted angelfish hybrid that was uploaded not more than a week…
Tiny orange tongue coral is an example of how to find cool corals
If there is one thing that I am glad about in this hobby it’s that my taste in corals is pretty different from the mainstream. I like weirdo corals, weirdo colors and I especially love creeper corals which look like…
New study documents increased growth of staghorn Acropora in higher phosphate levels
Acropora corals are a mysterious creature with complex needs and one of those that we thought we’d nailed long ago was their “need” for minimal phosphate concentration in the water. A new study by Dunn et. al. which will be…
Tigger-Feast from Reef Nutrition
Tigger Feast is the newest copepod-based fish food from Reef Nutrition which is a preserved form of the popular Tigger Pods, Tigriopus californicus. Traditionally reef aquarists have purchased Tigger Pods in a six ounce bottle with up to 2000 live…
Aquarium LED patent reexamination tosses out all but a few of the original claims
Big news today that the aquarium LED patent which stifled progress of reef aquarium LED lighting has been reexamined by the United State Patent & Trade Office with some major changes to what the aquarium LED patent means for aquarium…
This weekend only, sign up with Thrive and receive free calcium or alkalinity refill
We’ve been using the Thrive Analytics section of the Thrive Aquatics website to track reef aquarium chemistry for a few months now and it’s been really nice to have a thorough web journal that can’t get lost or get wet.…
Swim bladder lancing video shows simple procedure to correct down-swimming fish
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6RQPQL8MTw[/youtube] We’ve all seen those basslets. anthias and some swallowtail angelfish exhibiting the downward swimming behavior which is a tell-tale symptom that something is wrong with that fish’s swim bladder. It is widely known that it is possible to ‘lance’…
New web tool helps you find the best public aquarium to visit
The following is a guest post by Noah Greenberg who wanted to share with us a cool new tool for comparing different public aqiuariums around the world It’s wintertime again, and for those of us that love marine life, the…
New milled reflector addition to JBJ Unibody LED increases PAR and decreases light spillage
Using high output LEDs with only their primary optic is a great way to avoid weird color mixing and getting a good spread but unfortunately this also allows a lot of light loss and spillage. You could add secondary optics…
Coral Morphologic wins a grant to start painting Miami as a Coral Reef City
Throughout many parts of Miami there’s a whole lot of coral growing at the water’s edge and no one knows that better than the coral-huggers at Coral Morphologic. We’ve written extensively about Core More over the years: first with some…