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I see you looking at me, like I’m some kind of freak

Sight is a vital sensory system for most living things that enables them to process and visualise information from their surroundings. What to eat, and where to find it? Who to flee from, and who to mate with? Survival and procreation…

Five time lapse aquarium videos that show the ‘behavior’ of corals

Everyone loves a good time lapse video, whether it is of everyday scenery, passing clouds, or just some plants growing. In aquariums, the use of time lapse photography is uniquely useful in helping to show the behavior and growth of…

Endangered versus Threatened: Why should you be concerned?

While yesterdays event scared just about everyone in the greater aquatics industry we might come to expect that more often as different petitions make there way around federal bodies that deal with the ESA. A lot of folks think we…

The Worldwide Aquatics Industry is in Jeopardy

PIJAC –one of the if not only organization that is actively working in the interests of the aquatics industry announced a major update to the active petitions and strategy surrounding our dear friends at the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD). …

MaxSpect Gyre pump gets its first real close up

When it is finally released to the public in a couple of months, the MaxSpect Gyre pump will undoubtedly be one of the hottest new reef aquarium devices to hit the scene in a really long time. The completely new…

Getting a closer look at the GHL Doser 2 dosing pump

The GHL Doser 2 was one of the most exciting products of InterZoo 2014 and it held a similar position of high regard in America for the Mile High Marine Aquarium Conference of North America. While the unit we first…

What our readers do to “beat the heat”

People are worried about excessive heat in the aquarium during the summer months but the majority of are just using cooling fans to keep things in check, according to the results of our aquarium heat management survey we conducted earlier…

New Transformer Sump enables larger skimmers with low stand clearance

One common problem of reef aquarists trying to size up equipment for a new or existing reef tank is getting gear that will not only fit in the sump, but can also be added or removed from where sump resides inside the…

Pachyseris inattesa is a newly described coral from the Red Sea

Pachyseris inattesa is a new species of plating stony coral recently described from several locations around the Red Sea up and down the coast of Saudi Arabia. Colonies of the newly described Pachyseris inattesa was previously confused as belonging to the Leptoseris genus…

Hydra 26 review and comparison with Vega LED

We’ve thoroughly enjoyed using the AI Vega on our 29 gallon coral aquarium for over a year but with the release of the Hydra 26, it was time to try something new. Having our AI Vega in white be replaced…