We’ve heard of white yellow tangs being spotted in the wild before but this is the first we’ve seen of a completely ghost white yellow tang being captured for the aquarium trade. World Wide Corals just received an all white…
Mighty Mite from Air, Water & Ice packs a four stage RO/DI into a tiny affordable package
The Mighty Mite is a miniaturized four stage RO/DI unit which delivers all of the features of a full size RO into a little bitty space for a similarly reduced price. For just over a benjamin at $109 from Air,…
Flex LED from ReefBrite gives you twilight or moonlight, on the fly and on the cheap
The Flex LED from ReefBrite is a flexible LED strip that can be easily added to almost any existing aquarium lighting setup. Whether you have a pendants hanging above your reef or a fully covered aquarium canopy, The ReefBrite Flex…
Orange Frogspawn coral morphs appears in both branching species, from Indonesia
This weekend at Fragstock in Denver CO we caught sight of some amazing orange frogspawn coral that was being offered by Midwest Saltwater. We’ve seen the yellow torches and the orange hammers, but the orange frogspawn was definitely a first…
Reef Jewelry of sterling silver and pearl are like miniature sculptures
We spend a lot of time talking about reef aquarium geekery but this weekend we encountered something really special at the Golden Colorado Fine Arts Festival. One jewelry maker, Sheppard Hill Designs from Paonia, CO was displaying a whole case…
Chlorophyll F, a newly discovered photosynthetic pigment uses infrared light
Chlorophyll F is a photosynthetic pigment which is able to capture light energy in the infrared spectrum. Chlorophyll F has an absorption peak of 706 nanometers, a segment of light which was previously considered to weak to drive photosynthesis. The…
AI Nano Sol LED is half of an Aqua Illumination Sol LED
The AI Nano Sol LED is a new light fixture from Aqua Illumination which is coming to market with one of the oldest and most respected LED pedigrees in the hobby. If the picture of the AI Nano Sol LED…
Carefully neglecting your reef so you can do other things
The following is a contribution from Mark van der Wal, a personal friend of ours in this hobby for over ten years. Congratulations to Mark on having a perfect little baby girl this week, Elise Catherine van der Wal, a…
Lembeh Reef Video, Critter Crazy, is nothing short of the best macro video collage we’ve ever seen
[vimeo width=”670″ height=”502″]http://vimeo.com/14263769[/vimeo] This video of diving in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia by Markus Young is the last 10 minute break you need to get through the week. Go ahead and enable HD, click on fullscreen and turn the up the…
Will the real Springeri damselfish please swim up?
Chrysiptera springeri is an amazing species of damselfish which we’ve long admired. Over the last couple of years we’ve seen at least two color forms of damselfish being offered up as C. springeri: one all blue form with a clear…