When the Red Sea Max S 500 was first spotted at InterZoo in Germany last year, we knew that it would be a long while until this model enjoyed the same global distribution as its predecessors the Red Sea Max…
The showstopping Acropora colonies of Michael Moye (and a great experience with the Avast Marine Porthole)
Michael Moye is a veteran reef aquarist living in Greenwich Connecticut and he is the owner of a high energy 500 gallon reef tank that’s been pushing up polyps for over a decade – 1996 to be exact. We had…
SEA Atlanta filtration room is pimped out with MRC Commercial reef equipment
[vimeo width=”680″ height=”400″]http://vimeo.com/30379692[/vimeo] There are fish rooms and then there are filter rooms – SEA Atlanta’s dedicated chamber of life support is an excellent demonstration of a lot of My Reef Creation Commercial equipment. Unlike the coral propagation room that…
Branching Favites complanata from Darwin Australia is more colorful than Australogyra
Like the unusual Darwin Micromussa before it, some newly imported colonies of branching Favites complanata from Darwin is also sporting a very unique appearance. Favites complanata is actually very common in the trade, often appearing brown with more moderately deep…
This adult yellow belly blue tang looks wildly different from its Pacific counterpart
Before this past weekend we would have been first in line to dog on the usually pale yellow belly regal blue tang, Paracanthurus hepatus, from the Indian Ocean. While visiting Marine Designs near Atlanta Georgia, among some of the awesome…
Dr. G’s Marine Aquaculture includes phytoplankton, oyster and copepod products
Dr G’s Marine Aquaculture is a new aquarium company offering up some liquid foods for reef tanks made from phytoplankton, oyster and copepods. In addition to the Oyster Magnifique and Live Tiger Copepods, Dr. G’s first product to be spotted…
Lookdown Gyre tank by SEA Atlanta is a very unique concept fish aquarium (video)
We’ve all seen dedicated lookdown tanks – big tall cylindrical tanks in which lookdown fish, Selene vomer, can swim around in circles ad infinitum without running into any objects or the sides of the tank. The problem is that even…
Reef Culture Technologies already beginning to ship a few ‘Hawaiian Cherub’ angelfish
Without context the image above shows a trio of the ubiquitous Caribbean pygmy angelfish, Centropyge argi, but if we told you these fish were made in Hawaii you might call us crazy. That is until we tell you that these…
Salifert’s Coralline AminoAcids is a well-kept secret for encouraging stony coral growth
Salifert’s Coralline Aminoacids has been around for well over a decade so you would think that its amazing stony coral growing powers would be well known to all, but lots of veteran reefers still haven’t heard the good news. As…
Rare and unknown blenny species also pictured in recent description of new Meiacanthus
Last week saw the publication of the original description of three new Meiacanthus species but this paper also included rarely before seen photos of five other Meiacanthus blennies. The five Meiacanthus pictured include M. vittatus, M. crinitus, M. luteus, M.…