The AESumi nano skimmer from Aqua Excel is the tiniest little foam fractionator with just about every feature you can have in a skimmer. Surface skimmer, needle wheel pump with a silencer, a bubble diffuser plate, adjustable cup height and…
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New Era Marine Grazer food is fun to feed to fish
We don’t like just throwing in pelleted or flake food in the fish tank when they fish are begging; we really look for new and interesting ways to feed them good nutritious food, which also stimulates our marine fish as…
Footage of Centropyge interrupta in the wild shows off its large and beautiful stature
Very few Centropyge angelfish can rival the beauty and grace of Centropyge interrupta. The combination of iridescent blue and orange coupled with the yellow tail fin screams for attention and it’s hardly a surprise that this fish lands itself right…
Top down look of Chingchai’s amazing corals and fish
You’ve seen the DSPS tank from Thailand a myriad of times; in the beginning and a little bit further along. Now that Chngchai’s reef tank has been coming along for a while now, this top down video of the reef and…
Rare white orca whale spotted off Russian coast
Scientists have found what is thought to be the first sighting of an adult white orca (killer whale) off the coast of eastern Russia. The male orca, dubbed Iceberg, was seen near Kamchatka and appears to be healthy and living a…
Using ‘Double Down’ to stimulate spawning of the Lightning Maroon Clownfish
The Lightning Maroon Clownfish has not spawned. While the image above (and video below) shows the Lightning Maroon and her mate tending a nest of eggs on a tile, those are NOT their eggs. This technique has been called by some…
Coral bowl at Dorkfish Aquatics is a creative way to observe and target feed a red goni
Imagine our surprise when we visited a brand spankin new aquarium shop in the Denver area to discover something we had never seen before. The place is Dorkfish Aquatics, and when we swung by the new retail location we were flabbergasted by…
Reef aquarium time lapse video shows behavior of coral polyps
There’s nothing like a good reef aquarium time lapse video to remind us that corals are animals like us, reacting to their environment in their own way, everyday. This time lapse video of a reef aquarium shows a wide range…
The kelp reefs of Carnac Island harbor some of Western Australia’s lesser known temperate wrasses
Australia is well known for producing some of the industry’s best psychedelic corals and drool worthy reef fish. The land down under is a wealth of untapped bounty and what we’ve been able to bring to the trade is nothing…
Open brain corals are perfectly capable of catching small healthy reef fish
It’s pretty common knowledge that anemones of any kind can easily catch small fish, or specimens that are weakened from stress or injury, but you don’t really expect that from corals. Sure we’ve all seen the evidence of open brains…