The Slimline LED from Sunbrite LED is the name of the slim and svelte LED light that we shared with you at the very end of December. The Slimline is now coming closer to real world availability, and we’ve learned…
How to: Reverse-photoshopping a totally blown out coral photo
Let’s face it, the online coral WYSIWYG space is completely inundated with unrealistic photographs of corals for sale. The Photoshopping of coral images has reached such extreme proportions that it is getting extremely hard to even believe your eyes when…
Etsy is a treasure trove of creative and original reef art
Let’s face it, the reef aquarium world is so focused on fragging corals, growing corals better, keeping fish healthier and making good products that besides Kaitlyn Cameron and Karen Talbot, we don’t have much reef-art-culture coming from within the hobby.…
Reeftech Prometheus LED video demoes of sunrise, cloud passing and sunset
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFeOUZjBRyM[/youtube] The Prometheus LED light from Reeftech is an interesting light which includes full on-board controllability of multiple LED channels. This level of LED control can be used to recreate very natural lighting simulations such as sunrise, sunset,…
The cold water reef tank of Steve Weast is Azoox with stealth water flow
Cold water marine aquariums are few and far between, and cold water reef tanks are an even rarer breed. While most reefers spend their efforts running tropical reef tanks with warm water and high powered lights, after building a few…
Coral larvae know the meaning of stoplight colors, backwards
It is common knowledge in the coral reef aquarium world that corals fluoresce in a multitude of colors, but coral larvae fluoresce as well. Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) is one of the most common fluorescent pigments found in the natural…
Prodac fish food now with biodegradable containers
Prodac is a maker of fish and turtle foods from Italy whose foods comes in a plastic lidded container the same as many others. However unlike the majority of the plastic found in our daily lives, Prodac has just announced…
Algae Control Test kit from Red Sea gets unboxed and tried out
The Algae Control Test Kit from Red Sea is a phosphate and a nitrate test kit. If the Algae Control test was just a combination pack, we wouldn’t have much left to say about it but this new product from…
Stubby-fin Fairy Wrasse in Alor Indonesia is probably a new species
There is a distinctive and unusual looking fairy wrasse lurking around Alor in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. The unusual wrasse is most likely an undescribed species of Cirrhilabrus which has a dorsal fin that is unlike any other…
Winners of the Vertex ME video contest announced, congrats to Williamsport Area High School
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdP7Oy_t1cU[/youtube] Vertex Aquaristik recently announced the winners of their Vertex ME contest and we have to say that based on merit alone, we were pretty sure that Williamsport Area High School was going to win. With over 2000…