Congratulations to Ecotech Marine for winning their second Reef Builders LED Showdown for the year 2013. It’s been a long road getting through the whole year, with so many great new LED lights revealed in the last 12 months. Starting…
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Cycloseris boschmai is the smallest free living disc coral to date
There’s a new species of Cycloseris on the block and this one is distinguished by how small it remains. Growing up to only two inches (50mm) in diameter, Cyloseris boschmai was recently, finally described after more than three decades of…
The tale of the Ultimate Efflo tabling acropora
Few other coral in our hobby captures the image we have about massively plating coral like Acropora efflorescens. We have seen tabling corals such as Acropora granulosa or Acropora millepora but in reality the title of a true plating Acro…
First impressions of the HydroWizard HW42 prop pump
We’ve had a good long week to play and experiment with a sample HydroWizard HW42 from the first production run and we’ve got a pretty good feel for how the mechanics of this high performance propeller pump behaves. To recap,…
Ecotech’s new Radion G3 and Pro get more than an LED spec bump
The Radion G3 and Radion G3 Pro are Ecotech Marine’s annual revamp of the flagship LED light fixture which is happening on an annual basis now. Whereas last year we saw the Radion G2 and Pro fixtures only getting incremental…
The weeping willow leather coral has impossibly long polyps
The “Weeping Willow” leather coral is an example of how unique and cool a Sarcophyton toadstool coral has to be for me to specifically grow it for more than a dozen years. I still remember the first time we saw the…
Pempheris flavicycla sweeper is endowed with a brilliant yellow eye
The yellow eye sweeper, Pempheris flavicycla is new species of a group that gets no airtime in the aquarium, but just because we don’t acknowledge them doesn’t exist in beautifully colored species. For the unfamiliar with sweepers, their overall shape is…
Two days left to jump on $99 full MACNA 2014 conference pass
MACNA 2014 is continuing to set records for ticket and booth sales, as well as hotel bookings. We’ve got over 100,000 sq ft in the Colorado Convention Center, conveniently located in Downtown Denver, Colorado. The show floor is over 90%…
Orphek’s Azurelite is an indispensable reef aquarium tool
When we first received a sample of the Azurelite LED flashlight from Orphek, we knew that it would be a good little light toy, a useful accessory, but we never thought it would get so much regular usage. We use the…
Red Sea Maxima Clams are back in the aquarium hobby
Red Sea Maxima Clams are back in the aquarium hobby after a long absence that spanned more than a decade and a half. Wholesaler ACI Aquaculture in Tampa Florida recently landed a batch of just under 300 Red Sea Maxima…