Technology is a beast that marches ever forward, and sometimes it seems like it progresses in fits and starts. Nowhere is that pattern more clear than right now in the reef aquarium hobby where a handful of new products are…
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This Angelfish Isn’t Real (But It Does Exist!)
The blueline and conspicuous angelfish are two of our favorite Chaetodontoplus species and now we might get to see what these two fish will look like in one fish. At MACNA 2017 Poma Labs made a huge splash with their expansive catalog…
How Do Your Prepare An Aquarium For Disaster?
The hurricane season is in full swing here in North America and a significant swath of the Caribbean and Florida are about the face down the business end of one of the biggest storms in history. While people are scrambling…
Horniman’s ‘Lab Grown’ Tenuis Acros Are The REAL Limited Edition Corals!
For the last twenty years a certain subset of wild corals have been deemed to be ‘limited edition’, but since these come from the boundless ocean, how limited could they be? Well today we have what is perhaps one of…
Unusual Corals In Lembeh Strait
Lembeh Strait The Lembeh Strait is a holy grail amongst scuba divers. This relatively small channel of water is home to the highest concentration of crazy critters known anywhere under the sea. Scuba divers from around the world flock to…
The MACNA 2017 Video Tour Part 4
It’s hard to believe that MACNA 2017 has already come and gone – having missed a day due to illness I really felt the importance of having MACNA be a three day show, and I personally could stand to hang…
The MACNA 2017 Video Tour Part 3
It’s been a busy week since MACNA wrapped up but we’ve managed to deliver a daily video on the best things we saw in New Orleans this year. This third installment of the MACNA video tour includes some savory aquarium…
The MACNA 2017 Video Tour Part 2
In this second installment of our coverage of MACNA 2017 we continue to peruse the show floor looking for and examining the latest and the greatest. There really as a bumper crop of cool new stuff to tell you guys…
The MACNA 2017 Video Tour Part 1
MACNA in New Orleans last weekend was one of the best looking reef aquarium shows we’ve ever been to. Despite the unfriendly traveling conditions due to Hurricane Harvey making landfall not far from the conference, the vendors and exhibitors all…
Poma Labs Debuts Captive Bred Conspicuous Angelfish
Poma Labs is a brand new venture co-founded by two very influential persons in the aquarium world, Nuri Fisher of Piscine Energetics, and Dr. Matthew Wittenrich, a pioneer in breeding ornamental marine fish. As the name implies, for now Poma…