The first thing most non-aquarist think when you tell them you have a saltwater aquarium is that it must take so much time, be very expensive, and very hard to maintain. That may have been true way back in the…
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Blue Skeleton Majestic Angelfish Is Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen!
Every now and then a very special reef fish that we’ll never forget pops up on our rare fish radar, and the ‘Blue Skeleton’ Majestic Angelfish is such an example. This sensational specimen of Pomacanthus navarchus made its way to East…
Ricordea yuma Are Still Some Of The Showiest Shrooms In The Hobby
As the reef aquarium hobby has become gripped by the current craze for mushroom anemones or corallimorphs, we’ve seen all different types of these polyps become exalted and highly sought after. Better known as ‘Shrooms’, the Discosoma and Rhodactis have been appearing…
There’s A Whole Ocean Of Corals Unknown In The Reefing Hobby
The reef aquarium hobby has come such a long way in the last 15 years. During that time we’ve mastered the husbandry and propagation of hundreds of coral species, nearly as many reef fish, and we know more about the…
KH Director Is GHL’s Entry Into The Alkalinity Monitor Frontier
The KH Director is a new model of alkalinity monitor from revered German company, GHL. As one of the premier and oldest makers of dosing pumps, GHL knows a thing or two about peristaltic dosing pumps and it shows in…
Hacked Aquarium Controller Used In Casino Cyber Attack!
An internet connected aquarium controller has just been confirmed as the gateway into the secure network of a casino, and it was used to steal up to 10 gigabytes of data! We knew this day would inevitably come, and it’s…
How To Do Coral Frags Right
During my time in the hobby things have changed dramatically. Most of us started off with soft corals, and these were usually large wild colonies, which is a dramatic difference from the SPS fragments (frags) that many of us now…
This Scroll Coral Is Bigger Than Most Fish Stores!
Aquarists have unfortunately become so far removed from natural reefs and the sizes of truly large corals, that many often forget how big corals actually grow. I often crack an internal chuckle when a coral grower points to a few…
Awesome Fish Spotlight: The Ornate Butterflyfish
The Butterfly Effect We have always been told a swift “NO” on keeping most butterflyfish species in reef aquariums and it constantly reminds us of an old Mark Twain quote: “There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it…
Vectra S1 DC Pump Coming Soon From Ecotech Marine
The Vectra S1 is the third and smallest model in Ecotech Marine’s lineup of controllable DC water pumps. Due to the M1 and L1 naming convention of the medium and large Vectra pumps, we knew that the small Vectra S1 would…