The Illumagic Blaze LED light fixture offers an interesting combination of LED colors with manual control of several channels. The fixture featured in the video appears to be using three channels: one with white and warm white, another with blue…
Black Tang Video shows what a perfect quality specimen looks like
[youtube width=”670″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1-YLciao2M[/youtube] The black tang, Zebrasoma rostratum, is not an extremely rare fish here in the United States, but there’s a perfectly good reason why we haven’t bothered to shoot a video of one so far. Most captive aquarium…
AquaMaxx CR-1 nano Calcium Reactor hangs on to a lot of nice parts for 140 bucks
When the AquaMaxx Nano Calcium Reactor CR-1 first showed up on our doorstep, our first thought was that the price of this calcium reactor is no reflection on the quality of the build, design or components of the AquaMaxx CR-1.…
A pictorial walkthrough of the Denver Downtown Aquarium
The Denver Downtown Aquarium may be small compared to some larger establishments, but it is still packed with a wide variety of interesting fresh and saltwater creatures. We’ve previously posted about the Denver Aquarium’s terminal phase hardwicki wrasse, the video…
Giant filter feeding fish once ruled the seas
Some previously mis-identified fossils have recently been used to describe a “New” giant prehistoric filter feeding fish. It’s been known for many years that prehistoric filter feeding fish called Pachychormids had existed, but paleontologists believed these to be a short…
iPhone controlled iGlo LED Set let’s you put a rave on your reef, emulate a red-orange sunrise or a deep blue twilight
[youtube width=”670″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0tsz2DQVBs[/youtube] There’s no doubt that the iGlo LED Set is being targeted at an audience other than the reef aquarium crowd, but one look at what this real time, wifi-controlled LED strip can do and our reef-obsessed gears…
Multiline basslet video shows a Liopropoma in it’s natural habitat
The Multiline Basslet, Liopropoma multilineatum, may not be the highest target of deepwater basslet enthusiasts but this video of a Liopropoma in it’s natural habitat is extremely informative. It is well known that many basslets and Liopropoma in particular live…
Combo LED Pendant will now exist as an optional Blue Booster LED ring
You know that Combo LED pendant from Blue Moon Aquatics that we’ve been all hot and bothered about? Well it appears that Blue Moon Aquatics has given us another reason to think their multichip LED spotlight is bomb-diggidy: Instead of…
What the air driven Mame Nano Skimmer has taught me about protein skimming
Like many of you, when I first laid eyes on the Mame Nano Skimmer my thought was that it was a beautiful piece of kit, but hardly worth the cost relative to it’s performance. nevertheless, I went ahead and gave…
Cirrhilabrus johnsoni being collected in decent numbers for the rare wrasse lovers
Cirrhilabrus johnsoni is a very rare fairy wrasse which has thus far only sporadically made it’s way into the aquarium trade. Hailing from the Marshall Islands, Cirrhilabrus johnsoni is only known from a small part of the island chain called…