Two Little Fishies showed us their new MagFeeder and grazer ring at Interzoo 2014. These magnetic mounted feeders expand on the VeggieMag and give the hobbyists additional feeding options. The Mag Feeder is a floating ring that ensures your dry food doesn’t…
KH Power, Calcium Pronto and Magnesium Pronto added to Two Little Fishies additive lineup
We noticed these containers of Calcium Pronto, Magnesium Pronto, and KH Power at Two Little Fishies’ InterZoo booth. They represent a line of dry additives and will offer hobbyists an economical option of making their own stock solutions. Magnesium Pronto is a mix…
AquaIllumination Hydra 26 LED is small but don’t call it a ‘nano’ light
The AquaIllumination Hydra TwentySix joins its big brother, the Hydra FiftyTwo, at interzoo 2014. While it may resemble the AI Nano in size, the similarity ends there. The Hydra TwentySix has more output than the original Hydra, including six additional LEDs. Impressive when…
Tunze’s new 7097 Bluetooth Controller
Tunze builds upon it’s controller line with the new 7097 Bluetooth Multicontroller. The new multicontroller works with the controlable Tunze Turbelle pumps and LEDs. With the inclusion of Bluetooth, the user can now adjust and program these pumps and LEDs…
Tunze LED full spectrum 8850 light bar
Tunze added the LED full spectrum 8850 bar to their lineup at Interzoo 2014. It comes equipped with 7 white (5000K), 7 blue (470/450nm), and 12 red Nichia and Osram LEDs; which provides the ability to adjust temperature from 5000K to…
Tunze redefines the algae scraper with the Care Magnet
Tunze’s new “Care Magnet” is a welcome refresh/addition of their cleaning magnets and it’s quite innovative! The magnet portion doesn’t actually touch the glass, thereby reducing scratches from sand particles. All the scraping is done via the scraper blades, available…
Self-sustaining ecosystems in a box, how close can we actually get?
Something that I’m continually fascinated with and ponder about; the idea of creating aquarium setups that require minimal human intervention. Growing up in the 90’s, the biosphere experiment held my imagination quite a bit. And then there were those ecospheres…
Angelfish in reef aquariums: It doesn’t always work out the way you want
Experimenting with large angelfish in reef aquariums is always a gamble. But their sheer beauty alone make it worth the risk. There are some angelfish that are considered safer than others — the Chaetodontoplus, Apolemichthys, and Pygoplites angelfish come to mind —…
Creatures of the Lembeh Strait
Howard Hall is a well known name in underwater cinematography. He and his wife have won numerous Emmys and produced fine films for National Geographic and PBS Nature. Fortunately for us, they also have a vimeo channel that you can…
Revisiting the refugium, or more accurately, the macroalgae scrubber
A lot of trends have come and gone in this hobby. As folks shake up their zeolite reactors and add a carbon source, the idea of a deep sand bed and refugium seems like a long forgotten memory. Much to…