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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 +…

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…

Dual Spectrum Skkye LED light tablet from Innovative Marine gets dressed with blue and white light

No matter how good the stock Skkye LED light tablet looks with its single type of LEDs and moonlights, we don’t need a survey to know that 99 out of 100 reefers would prefer a light that includes discrete blue and white…

Deepwater Acropora elegans has potential for killer color

Less than a month ago we picked up a small colony of Acropora elegans from LiveAquaria which looked more like wooden branches of Acropora than a colorful coral someone would want to keep in their tank. ‘Deepwater Acros’ are notoriously difficult to…

Coral

Simple, clean nano aquarium makes big impression

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5MqxHR7sHI[/youtube] We love well edited aquariums and in many cases, less can be more. This nice video of a very clean aquascaped ADA nano aquarium by YouTube user digitallyblue took a simple approach to make a big impact in a…

Using water droplets as an LED lens and diffuser

We recently set up a new gyre flow frag tank, a 33 Long aquarium which is 48 inches long and lit by an assortment of lights including a NanoBox Reef LED. Since it’s winter and really dry in Colorado a…

Saltwater Fish

Lagoon shows off a unique four step photograph of a transforming Tosanoides flavofasciatus

Lagoon of Japan recently scored with a female T. flavofasciatus that came singly without a male partner. We wrote about this female not very far back, but at that time, we had no idea that Lagoon from Japan was putting together a…

Gorgonia mariae sea fan is the SPS of soft corals and gorgonians

There is something about true Caribbean Gorgonia sea fans that has always fascinated us – their small polyps and highly regular structure is unusual for a soft corals. The Gorgonia sea fans have a more determinate growth form than most gorgonians which makes us liken…