With the world currently in a state of lockdown and quarantine, nearly all travel has been severely limited around the world, especially air travel. This limitation includes both passenger and freight and the limited availability of cargo space has understandably…
Giant Clam Poop Could Help Corals Recover from Bleaching!
Last September a study was published taking a close look at giant clam poop, more accurately described as fecal pellets. We previously shared this story but wanted to circle back to it to really drive home one interesting point about…
Second Generation Acropora Successfully Raised at Horniman Museum
it was around six years ago that Jamie Craggs and the Horniman Museum & Gardens first successfully spawned and raised Acropora corals in an aquarium environment. Now this same team has succeeded in spawning the first generation of corals they…
We’ll Never Forget the Legend that is Dr. Jack Randall
There are thousands of species of freshwater and marine fish, and John Ernest “Jack” Randall, Jr described a heckuva lot of them. Even if you don’t know the name or never knew him, the man is responsible for discovering and describing…
Apogon soloriensis, a New Cardinalfish from Japan
Cardinalfish are an important and abundant part of tropical reef fish communities and now we can add one more to the list, Apogon soloriensis. This newly described little red fish was discovered in the Bonin Islands of Japan, better known…
10 Upgrades to Dalua’s DC Great White Protein Skimmer
The Great White from Dalua Australia is one of the best value protein skimmers in the reef aquarium hobby and now Dalua is doing the same for controllable DC skimmers. The new Great White DC skimmer is much more than…
Don’t Freak Out About Minimal Tissue Loss on SPS Corals
SPS corals like Montipora, Acropora and many others are some of the most diverse, colorful and interesting stony corals we can keep and grow in aquariums. Along with their fast growth and incomparable colors comes some risk because their fast…
Morse Code Flame Angelfish Beauty from Among The Reef
It’s been a good long while since we’ve seen a nice, novel aberrant pygmy angelfish specimen but the new Morse Code flame angelfish is just the fish we needed to break the drought. This lovely Centropyge loricula came from the heart of…
MaxSpect Coral Tweezers is an Aquarium Instrument made of Carbon Fiber
MaxSpect Coral Tweezers are perhaps one of the most interesting aquarium accessories we’ve ever seen made using the unique properties of carbon fiber. Tweezers or tongs are an important tool for reef aquarium professionals and frequent coral fraggers, coral farmers,…
Converting Built-In ATO to an Auto Waste Collector
There’s a relatively new class of reef aquarium and saltwater fish tank sump that have started to include built-in sections to function as reservoirs of freshwater to feed an automatic top off system. If you caught our last project building…