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one week left to enter the giveaway for the high performance Io LED pendant

This is just a friendly reminder that we’re still running an awesome giveaway for a very valuable reef light. The Io LED pendant includes 75 watts of Cree XP LEDs, full controlability built in display and bluetooth wireless connectivity and…

Liopropoma africanum basslet lands at SAreefkeeping in South Africa

Liopropoma africanum is arguably one of the worlds rarest reef basslets in the marine aquarium hobby but one lucky shop n South Africa has just come into possession of only the third specimen we’ve heard of. rare fish fanciers will…

IMAC West not to happen until 2011

IMAC West, which is the spin off of the Original IMAC that was hosted for years in Chicago has been postponed until 2011. This was  most likely due to the economy as well as other competing shows across the nation…

Pacific Sun Io LED Pendant Photo Contest: show us your best coral or fish to win an awesome LED reef light

If you’ve been looking for reasons to be inspired with your reef aquarium this summer, how about 27 of them? 27 of Cree’s top of the line, high powered XP series LEDs all hanging out in one of the most…

Sustainable Collection vs. Captive Breeding – Is There Room For Both?

You’re seeing it everywhere.  “Sustainability”.  You’re going to see this buzzword-of-the-decade coming up more and more as we debate a more responsible marine aquarium trade for the future, such as Ret Talbot’s hot-off-the-presses article on PNG’s Seasmart Program in this…

Waterproof power strip from wet circuits could save your aquarium, allows for new levels of carelessness

The waterproof power strip is one of those quotidian products designed for everyday use which may as well have been specially designed for aquarium use. Using some special voodoo circuitry, the wet circuits waterproof power strip manages the output of…

Something old, something new: Evolution within the hobby

One of the coolest things about our hobby is the amazing progression over the years in both the state of the art and the technology that we embrace.  Improvements that have enabled us to do things previously thought incredibly difficult…

Full RSS feeds are back

We turned off full RSS feeds for a few weeks. We did this mainly to reduce scrapping from other sites. I just turned them back on this morning. Quite a few of you complained about having the crippled RSS feed…

Flamboyant Cuttlefish, Metasepia pfefferi, mating on Video

[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjLapY8mPI4[/youtube] Metasepia pfefferi is an amazing species of flamboyant cuttlefish and I have recently had the opportunity to obtain multiple specimens of this species for the first time in 8 years. These flamboyant cuttlefish wasted little time getting on…

Gramma dejongi video in high resolution

[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH95Dry5Iao[/youtube] Gramma dejongi is one of the most sensational fish to hit the marine aquarium hobby in years and although hardly no one yet has their own, this video ought to keep us satiated that much longer. The…