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Friendly unicorn tang allows The Hand to pick at him like a cleaner shrimp

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiZAh-WNMdw[/youtube] Let’s face it, surgeonfish aka tangs are really friendly and inquisitive fish, especially the members of the Naso genus. This Naso brevicornis has been in captivity for ten years during…

Reef Octopus gets into the “luxury” aquarium and stand market

Reef Octopus has unveiled it foray into the luxury aquarium and stand market. Considering the company’s other range of products, the term luxury may be a stretch compared to brands like Elos or Vitrea but the Reef Octopus luxury aquariums…

Mediterranean Seagrass patch designated oldest living organism

Posidonia oceanica is a seagrass that occurs both in the Mediterranean Sea and off Australia. Like all seagrasses, Posidonia oceanica can reproduce asexually and sexually. Australian scientists have sequenced the DNA of Posidonia oceanica over 40 patches in the Mediterranean, ranging 3500…

Taiwan endemic coral Pseudosiderastrea formosa shows there’s still a lot of new corals out there

Pseudosiderastrea formosa is a newly described species of stony coral that is so far only known from shallow coastal waters of Taiwan. The new Pseudosiderastrea formosa is an encrusting species of stony coral which is related to the extremely hardy…

Pictures and videos of Genicanthus personatus in the wild cements its holy grail angelfish status

I like looking at rare fish pictures as much as the next guy, but if there’s anything that excites me more, it’s the thrill of finding pictures of rare fish in the wild. Featured this time are a slew of…

Cree XT-E Royal Blue Has a New Buddy

Cree has just announced what we have been anticipating for a while now; the XT-E white. While it’s not besting the XP-G in terms of overall output (it’s close) and efficiency, The XT-E white will bring some of the same…

Nano Evo LED is the smallest new light from ReefKoi’s Evolution LED

The Nano Evo LED is a new small reef aquarium light from ReefKoi’s Evolution line of affordable LED lights. Not to be confused with the Koralia Evo Nano water pumps, ReefKoi’s new Nano Evo LED is a diminutive 6 x…

Sulawesi coral shipments are bringing new treasures from the Coral Triangle

Sulawesi corals are about to pick up where Borneo corals left off, we hope. A couple years ago there was some efforts to get Borneo corals into the aquarium trade, and that hasn’t panned out yet, but now Sulawesi corals may become…

Panorama Pro LED and Mini 38 Nuvo aquarium are a near perfect match

The Nuvo aquarium series from Innovative Marine is a hot-selling reef aquarium package which is designed to pair up with the Skkye LED tablet but it also plays especially nice with another LED aquarium light. While at Aquamart in Lakewood Colorado this…

Chaetodon tinkeri shows why the roaps butterflyfishes are fearless and hardy

Hybrids aside, Chaetodon tinkeri is the least common and arguably the coolest obtainable member of the five roaps butterflyfish – with emphasis on the word obtainable. As far as butterflyfishes go, all five species within this subgenus Roaps are hardy…