Superstar deepwater reef fish collector Rufus Kimura and Co. have successfully captured a tiny little masked angelfish juvenile, Genicanthus personatus. Right as we were retiring for last night we heard whisperings that a juvenile Genicanthus personatus had been caught at…
False Shepard’s Hybrid Pygmy angelfish in the UK and US
The false shepard hybrid angelfish is a unique Centropyge that occurs with some regularity near ornamental marine fish collection sites in the Phillipines. Less than two years ago when the false shepard hybrid angelfish first started becoming available it was…
New Vortech pump coming next week from Ecotech Marine
Ecotech Marine just fired off a newsletter email that has some pretty unambiguous wording about a new pump they will be releasing at MACNA next week. Ecotech said in the newsletter to “get pumped for something new” and to stop…
Taking the Swabbie for a spin on an Alpha Kone 300
When Avast Marine asked us to review their new and affordable Swabbie automatic neck cleaner for protein skimmers, we thought we’d give them a little bit a challenge. Instead of sending us a po-dunk little skimmer neck cleaner we tasked…
Wingo LED strips are accent lights for your fish or reef
We find it odd that the race for LED lights started at the top with everyone vying for having the best or brightest reef light. Companies are still aiming to grow mini reef corals with LEDs but now it seems…
Anyone interested in doing an Archeological Reefscape?
This past weekend we attended the Fragstock coral farmer’s market at the Denver Downtown Aquarium. Along with many amazing corals and some neat, new products, we spied this interesting arrangement of home made reef rock. The maker Rich had arranged…
AI Wave LED tube from Aqua Illumination gets spec’d and priced
The AI Wave LED is that funky LED tube from Aqua Illumination which we first introduced to you as the AI Beam back in April. Now that the AI Wave LED is approaching release very soon and an unveiling next…
Reef Creature Identification Tropical Pacific coming soon for the love of inverts
Reef Creatures Identification for Tropical Pacific invertebrates is about to give us a whole lot more insight to the inverts of the biggest Ocean on earth. Humann and DeLoach are some of the most prolific underwater photographers and authors bringing…
Evolution LED delivers great PAR and color with caveats
The Evolution LED may be just another Chinese black box OEM LED but dang it sure does look good over a tank. With 119 one watt LEDs and a 2:1 ratio of blue to white LEDs, the Evolution delivers respectable…
Katalyst from Brightwell Aquatics is a Bioreactive Filtration Media (biopellets)
Katalyst is a new Biopellet from Brightwell Aquatics which is a solid carbon dosing alternative for phosphate and nitrate control. Brightwell Aquatics is one of those companies which is happy to chase all manner of additive products (i.e. NeoZeo) and…