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Aquarium Controllers Part 3: Top five things the extreme fish-geek wants in an aquarium controller

We have reached the last of the three part series (Part 1, Part 2) I have written on aquarium controllers. In this last part I am going to discuss the five most…

A glimpse of the new article published in the journal Coral Reef.

Opportunistic mimicry by a Jawfish – amateur discovery recognized in scientific literature

It’s a rare event when something discovered by a recreational diver winds up validated in the scentific community. But that’s precisely what’s happened with a story that first caught attention in July, 2011. Godehard Kopp, a recreational diver, recorded a…

Innovative Marine launches SkyyeLight Utility LED for nano aquariums and refugiums

If you are looking for a small, utility LED light take a gander at the SkyyeLight Utility LED by Innovative Marine. It appears these are a new iteration of the previous Skyye Light LEDs we covered. The new SkyyeLight LED has six 1W…

TMC MicroHabitat 30 hits the nano aquarium market

Following up on the success of the smaller versions, TMC is getting the new AquaHabitats MicroHabitat 30 out to market just in time for the holidays. We picked up the news from Acuaristica showing the new 30 liter (around 7.93…

The Cree XT-E Royal Blue LED Explained

You may have begun to notice Cree XT-E blue LEDs being included on some newer aquariums lights and unlike previous advancements, this generation of LEDs is designed for more than simple brightness and efficiency gains. The Cree XT-E royal blue…

Albino cat shark with colored cat shark at the Denver Aquarium

Albino bamboo cat sharks, born and displayed at the Denver Downtown Aquarium

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7TNjM7Y1bw[/youtube] Albino sharks and albino stingrays are remarkably rare in the wild and in captivity and so when we visit the Denver Downtown Aquarium, we just have to stop by and see their two albino bamboo cat sharks.…

Idaho couple convicted in Federal coral sting

We’ve seen our share of illegal smuggling convictions and while this case may not seem as severe it goes to show if you play by the rules you won’t get in trouble. According to this article in the Idaho Statesman,…

Marine planted aquarium are compellingly beautiful too

In my humble opinion, the diversity in marine aquarium types is at an all-time high. I’ve always been turned on by the idea of biotope aquariums. The freshwater folks have certainly embraced aquarium themes, even beyond the biotope or species…

Video of tiny radiated filefish turned out accidentally awesome

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8JzzNob9bE&[/youtube] If you thought that radiated filefish, Acreichthys radiatus, were cute in pictures, just wait until you see the tiny one in the video above swimming through one of Kevin Kohen’s awesome small office reef tanks. Just because he works…

Oceanlife Overflow v2.0 packs a lot of features in a tiny package

The Oceanlife Overflow 2.0 is an aquarium drain and return device which manages this simple yet critical aspect to having external aquarium filtration. Compared to the minimal appearance and footprint of the Oceanlife Overflow 2.0, any aquarium overflow box…