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West Australian Corals, get ’em while they’re hot!

West Australian corals including Symphyllia wilsoni, Scolymia australis, fancy chalice corals and a whole suite of fancy zoanthids are the latest crop of hot reef aquarium corals from the land down under. However, recent satellite observation suggest the West Australian…

Sneek Peak at the new Top-Dressed Otohime

A couple weeks ago we told you about Reed Mariculture’s forthcoming new product line that seeks to fill the gap between large-scale commercial foodfish aquaculture and the individual reef hobbyist – finally addressing the needs of small scale ornamental marine…

Another white yellow tang collected in Hawaii, codename: Powder

  The white yellow tang pictured above is a newly collected aberrantly colored Zebrasoma which we are codenaming ‘Powder’. Casper the white tang has been a sensation and the trophy fish of World Wide Corals since he was collected. However…

AEFW now known as Amakusaplana acroporae

AEFW — the dreaded acropora-eating flatworm has been a nuisance for hobbyists for years and has just gotten a new name thanks to a research team led by Dr. Kate Rawlinson from University College London. Amakusaplana acroporae is the official…

Albino bamboo cat sharks spotted at the Denver Downtown Aquarium

There are two albino sharks swimming leisurely in a large shore bird exhibit at the Denver Downtown Aquarium Albinism is extremely rare in marine life and one of the last animals we’d expect to lose the melanistic gene is an…

Live fish keyring, tattooed fish and preserved fish ‘art’ are really, really tacky

We don’t even know where to start with all the disrespect and cruelty we see being inflicted on live fish everywhere. China is selling live fish in sealed keyrings, fish are being tattooed more and more and one Japanese man…

Captive Bred Yellow Tangs? Not quite yet…

For nothing short of years, there have been rumors of captive-bred tangs permeating hobbyist chatter.  Most of these rumors are fueled by the collection of small Regal Tangs (Paracanthrus hepatus) and a general misunderstanding of what “tank raised” means (quite…

Reed Mariculture introduces a new product line, and wants you to name it!

Reed Mariculture is well-known around here, both for their aquarium hobby line of products  (Reef Nutrition), but also for their commercial aquaculture products generally sold under the Reed Mariculture umbrella.  Seeing their large-scale aquaculture products being used in smaller-scale applications…

Dense Matrix Array LED is Kessil’s in-house version of a multichip LED

The Kessil A150w LED spotlight is an entirely new beast for the aquarium hobby. In stark contrast to the barrage of Chinese LED panels we’re seeing that are “made to order” by lighting “manufacturers”, Kessil’s LED spotlights are packed with…

DIDOSY unveils unique dosing systems lines

DIDOSY is a new and unique line of dosing pumps getting worldwide distribution via Coral-Shop and Coral Planet. We saw one line of the DIDOSY (DIgital DOsing SYstem) earlier and thanks to Coral-Shop we have more information on the product.…