Built-in Displays in reef aquarium gear is one of those small design features that always grabs our attention when evaluating new tech. It obviously doesn’t make sense to include displays in everything but in cases where there is a lot of…
First Tour of the Worldwide Corals Reef Aquarium Superstore
It’s been over a year of anticipation, planning and building out, but finally the long anticipated Worldwide Corals flagship retail location opened its doors last weekend. Worldwide’s extended reefing family showed up for this momentous occasion and we were joined…
Top 5 Favorite Corals Spotted at Worldwide Corals’ Farm
It’s no secret that Orlando Florida’s World Wide Corals is a hotspot of aquarium coral diversity, which is part of the reason we jump on every opportunity to visit. Last weekend we were fortunate enough to be present for the…
Philips Coral Care Gen 2 Coming to U.S. Next Year
The Philips CoralCare Gen 2 LED fixture is an exciting new follow-up to an aquarium light that has so far not really ventured far outside of Europe. Built with, let’s call it European Sensibility’, the Philips CoralCare has long been…
Cirrhilabrus randalli Offered for Sale by Among the Reef
Cirrhilabrus randalli is a species of fairy wrasse that was described as far back as 1995, but so far has been completely absent in the aquarium hobby until now. A pair of Raindall’s Fairy wrasse have just been listed for…
Freshwater Substrate Vs. Aragonite Mangrove Growth Test
Mangrove trees are a popular addition to reef aquarium systems, and we’ve recently focused our attention on them with all the newfound space at the Reef Builders Studio. It’s positively easy to simply keep a few Rhizophora mangrove pods alive…
Orange Starry Puffer is a Remarkable and Gorgeous Oddity
An orange pufferfish was recently collected in Western Australia by Oceans Reefs Marine Aquariums (ORMA) and it’s quite an unusual specimen. What makes the orange pufferfish so special is that it’s not the usual puffer species we see displaying this…
Zombie Clownfish Announced by ORA just in time for Oct 31
The Zombie Clownfish is one of the first commercially available domesticated clownfish strains to be available sporting the red eye trait. Unlike the multitude of clownfish strains which generally have a variation of the white bar coloration, either through its…
Eshopps Colors Series Sumps: Oceana, Aquos, Alpha & Titan
The Eshopps Oceana, Aquos, Alpha & Titan are four new sump lines in their recently announced Color Series of aquarium sumps. In a very short period of time we’ve seen marine aquarium sumps go from a commoditized, basic box design…
Vanderhorstia dawnarnallae, Wicked New Species of Shrimp Goby Described
Vanderhorstia dawnarnallae is a beautiful and colorful new species of shrimp goby recently described in the Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. Discovered in the far eastern reaches of Indonesia also known as West Papua, Dawn’s Shrimp Goby is the…