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Love thy local fish store, Vargas in Omaha and a big sale at Greenwich Aquaria

Lots of great things happening in the retail aquarium space this weekend. The aquarium hobby could use some more editorial reflection on the state of affairs in our awesome hobby and to…

Red Sea MAX S 500 line of aquariums gets a thorough video walkthrough

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIX5UjITQ3k[/youtube] Red Sea has been teasing their MAX S line of large, all-in-one marine aquariums ever since we first saw them at InterZoo 2010 in Nuremberg, Germany. As much as we’ve tried to describe the lovely Red Sea…

Brown banded cusk eel Sirembo jerdoni is a super cool fish that is too seldom seen

Sirembo jerdoni (Brown-banded cusk-eel) is a really cool and really cute little eel like fish that is just too seldom seen in the trade. It inhabits a wide range across the Indo-west pacific, but due to it’s shy and benthic…

Maxspect Mazarra P, the Full Review

I recently shared the unboxing of Maxspect’s latest LED offering, the Mazarra P series. Well here’s the review. I’ve recently replaced the metal halide/T5 fixture over my 180 -gallon with the Mazarra modules. The minimum number of modules for a…

True Efflatournaria appears in the Diver’s Den, looks more like Xenia than Cespitularia

Finally, true Efflatournariahas appeared in the aquarium trade, as a maricultured coral in the Diver’s Den no less. Efflatournaria is a genus of soft corals whose name has been misapplied to various corals in the trade in recent years. Xenia, Hetroxenia and Cespitularia have…

Floor Leak Detector for GHL Profilux now able to tell you about your leaky tank

The new GHL Profilux Floor Leak Detector is another gadget to help avoid a discouraging and damaging saltwater overflow and give you a heads up before a full-blown aquarium catastrophe occurs. Sure there are water leak alarms and sensors that work…

ATM confuses aquarium additives for merchandise

ATM additives and aquarium products have been hinted at almost since the beginning of the TV series “Tanked“. A press release confirms that ATM is confusing aquarium products for merchandise stating that “first wave of the ATM product line is…

Teszla LED is Giesemann’s first pure LED aquarium light fixture

The Teszla LED from Giesemann has been a long time coming from one of Europe’s swankiest aquarium light manufacturers. Giesemann’s first foray into LED lighting began with a trifecta of LED + T5 fluorescent hybrids and a striplight, the MatrixPlus,…

Tomiyamichthys dorsostigma is the latest described goby from the Red Sea

In anticipation of his forthcoming Fishes of the Red Sea Jack Randall and fellow Ichthyologists have been busily working on describing new fish species from this region, the latest of which being the handsome goby Tomiyamichthys dorsostigma. We don’t see too many Tomiyamichthys gobies…