If you are in the Denver area and looking for a something to do, the Rocky Mountain Reef Conference & Frag Swap is being held this Saturday giving you a great opportunity to hear speakers, attend workshops, see vendors and…
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Flip video camera gets retired, a sign of the future of video
Yesterday the home video market got a bit of sad news when it was announced the Flip video camera was being discontinued. Sure the Flip camera had ability to capture great video of your friend doing a faceplant skateboarding or…
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.…
Tiger Angelfish
Apolemichthys kingi. Tiger Angelfish. Poisson-ange tigre. Tiger Kaiserfische. Tigre pez ángel. Tiger maanvissen. Tigre peixe-anjo. Taiga enjerufisshu. No matter what you call it, there’s no denying the unbelievable beauty of the Tiger Angelfish. [youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn9SZR-vnpo[/youtube]
Induction lamps bring more intensity and longevity to fluorescent lighting
Induction lamps are nothing new; the technology has been around since the early nineties but only in recent months have seen real usable components becoming available to pioneering light companies. Induction lamps come in a bulb and in circular form…