The tiger angelfish is so rare that it is hardly ever seen even in South Africa, so earlier this year we were tickled to be able to share with you a video of tiger angelfish acclimated and doing well in…
Reef Tank Pro is a new aquarium logging and management for iPhone and iPad
There’s plenty of online tank loggers but Reef Tank Pro is one of the first polished apps we’ve seen for the iPhone and iPad which is especially well suited to monitoring reef aquarium parameters. If you have just one tank…
Mu Series 100 ad 135 LEDs from BoostLED is equipped with a tangible amount of violet LEDs
The Mu Series 100 and 135 LEDs are new reef aquarium LED light fixtures from BoostLED which are equipped with a few LEDs in the ‘exotic’ end of the blue light spectrum. In addition to the standard neutral white and…
Maya Hamlet and Tan Hamlet are the two newest species of Hypoplectrus
The Maya hamlet and Tan Hamlet, Hypoplectrus maya and H. randallorum are two new species of serranids recently described from the Caribbean. As if hamlets needed any more species differentiated based just on coloration, along comes Phillip Lobel describing a…
The Coral Reef Aquarium book has landed, pre-orders being signed and shipped first
The long awaited new reef book The Coral Reef Aquarium has finally arrived. Tony Vargas is currently chained to a desk signing the first 200 copies of The Coral Reef Aquarium that were pre-ordered. Over the next two days Tony…
Rabaulichthys squirei is a new species of sailfin anthias described from the Coral Sea
The Coral Sea sailfin anthias shipping from Australia has just been described as Rabaulichthys squirei by John Randall in the journal Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. The Coral Sea sailfin anthias is in the same Rabaulichthys genus as the sailfin anthias from…
The tiger blenny, Ecsenius tigris, is a nano reef fish jewel from Australia
The tiger blenny, Ecsenius tigris, is a very small little nano blenny with more than enough coloration and personality to warrant more attention that the usual tiny Ecsenius blenny. Hailing from Australia and the Western Pacific Ocean the tiger blenny was…
Cobalt Aquatics brings back the original Italian-made MaxiJet
In addition to its line of fish food Cobalt Aquatics is releasing a line of ‘new’ water pumps which are essentially the return of the original Italian-made MaxiJet ™. Whereas Marineland’s Maxijet Pro is the essence of the Maxijet pump…
MakersLED aims to bring more performance and features to DIY LED kits
MakersLED is a new company started up to give DIY LED reefers a little more fit and finish to diodes they assemble for their reef tank lighting. We really love the idea of DIY LEDs being available to the masses…