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Red Sea reef fish beginning to trickle back into the aquarium trade

Red Sea reef fish were the pinnacle of aquarium fish provenance when we started keeping a marine aquariums in the nineties. For a decade orchid dottybacks, red sea pearlscale butterflyfish, broomtail wrasses…

Deep Sea Aquatics Neo Storm getting video setup walkthrough

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHUpwOXj1aw[/youtube] A few years ago we were impressed with Deep Sea Aquatics’ Neo Nano and were happy to hear about the big brother coming out in the last part of 2011. While we are hoping to get more details on this system, it…

Acanthurus polyzona, a little known species similar to convict tangs

Acanthurus polyzona is a very seldom seen fish that closely resembles the obscenely common Acanthurus triostegus, more commonly known as the Convict Tang. Unlike the Convict Tang, A. polyzona is a Western Indian Ocean species and can be found in…

JBJ Unibody 36, 54 and 108 makes for one happy family of LED aquarium lights

The JBJ Unibody 36 and Unibody 108 are smaller and larger iterations of the industrially machined LED reef light. The JBJ Unibody LED reef light hasn’t been shipping all that long but due to demand for the popular light, JBJ…

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January 24th– January 30th CONIC Bio-reactor from CAD lights is a plug and play biopellet mixer ASM cone skimmer doesn’t really stand out in materials and cost LSS laboratory releases new nozzle wave maker Anampses femininus entering the market…

Watch Luiz Rocha’s presentation on the Diversity and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes

If you weren’t able to make it to last week’s Diversity and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes, fret not because this informative talk is already up and live on the interwebz. Dr. Luiz Rocha, the ichthyologist who has described for…

Beautiful unidentified Plectranthias acquired by Blue Harbor

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Scientist to freeze, cryogenically preserve Great Barrier Reef corals

[dailymotion width=”680″ height=”382″]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmmiji_scientists-look-to-cryogenics-to-preserve-coral-reefs_news#from=embediframe[/dailymotion] Cryogenics and coral banks are nothing new but as one of the largest and most famous reefs in the world, Australian scientists are exploring using cryogenics to preserve corals from the Great Barrier Reef. We’ve previously seen…

Kent Marine ProScraper II offers up an extendable reach

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7J8c4K_nus[/youtube] The ProScraper II is the first follow up to the sturdy and practical Kent Marine ProScraper that we’ve come to know and love over more than a decade. Although we already have a small arsenal of ProScrapers…