The MaxiJet has a long history of making reef tanks flow; first as one of the most popular and reliable powerheads, and then as one of the most widely propeller-modified water pumps in the reef hobby. Back in September we…
Yellow Hawkfish, Paracirrhites xanthus, is a rare import from Christmas Island
The yellow hawkfish, Paracirrhites xanthus, is an extremely rare relative of the arc eye hawkfish that was only just described in 1997 by Baensch and Debelius. The yellow hawkfish is not to be confused with Cirrhitichthys aureus, the Golden Hawkfish…
Variegated Sea Urchin is ORA’s 85th captive bred marine species
The variegated sea urchin, Lytechinus variegates, is the latest reef aquarium invertebrate to get the captive breeding treatment from Oceans Reefs & Aquariums. When ORA announces new captive bred fare, it’s usually on the order of a new fish species…
First pictures of a live smooth cardinalfish, Vincentia macrocauda
Vincentia macrocauda, the smooth cardinalfish, is an unusual marine fish from the Indian Ocean along the coast of Western Australia. Like the true personifer angelfish, the smooth cardinalfish is yet another cool marine fish that comes only from from Western…
Butterflyfish sure do love H2Ocean’s Reef Paste food
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJfVBl0Cq94[/youtube] This new video uploaded by Simon Garratt is an interesting demonstration of what kind of fish really respond to H2Ocean’s Reef Paste. If you’ll recall, Reef Paste is a paste of food for reef fish and corals…
Fluval G3 canister gets reviewed on camera by Practical Fishkeeping
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFiivFUN1kc[/youtube] The Fluval G3 is one of Hagen’s latest and greatest flagship canister filters. A canister filter is not the first or the fifth thing we think of when we’re thinking of setting up a marine or reef…
True personifer angelfish video shows off that expensive tail stripe
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCxr8G0Dvtc[/youtube] The true personifer angelfish, Chaetodontoplus personifer, is a relatively new species of angelfish from Western Australia which was split off from its sister species on the Eastern coast of Australia, Chaetodontoplus meridithi. We love personifer angelfish, be…
Hands-on with the Aiptasia Zapper; extermination has never been so gratifying
The Aiptasia Zapper is ghetto, but it remains to be seen if it is also fabulous. Sometimes electricity can melt your sump, but it is now being harnessed by the Aiptasia Zapper to discombobulate unwanted cnidarians. At two feet the…
Sometimes aquarium heaters fail . . .
. . . and sometimes they fail catastrophically. We’d like to point out that the Ebo Jager in this destroyed sump was not the cause of this fire.
Hybrid clarion x passer, cyclops lemonpeel and aberrant bicolor angelfish
In the past week a slew of unusual angelfish were collected all around the world. The hybrid passer, cyclops lemonpeel and aberrant bicolor angelfishes were all but eclipsed by the bombshell news of the sensational blackspot pygmy angelfish, Centropyge nigriocella.…