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SEA Atlanta filtration room is pimped out with MRC Commercial reef equipment

[vimeo width=”680″ height=”400″]http://vimeo.com/30379692[/vimeo] There are fish rooms and then there are filter rooms – SEA Atlanta’s dedicated chamber of life support is an excellent demonstration of a lot of My Reef Creation…

Branching Favites complanata from Darwin Australia is more colorful than Australogyra

Like the unusual Darwin Micromussa before it, some newly imported colonies of branching Favites complanata from Darwin is also sporting a very unique appearance. Favites complanata is actually very common in the trade, often appearing brown with more moderately deep…

Food

Dr. G’s Anti-Parasitic fish food a great idea, we’re hoping it works

Dr. G’s Anti-Parasitic Rx frozen fish food is a welcome idea in the hobby and we’re hoping it works. Most parasitic treatments merely treat the water hoping for delivery of medications from absorption or from using copper chemicals that are…

This adult yellow belly blue tang looks wildly different from its Pacific counterpart

Before this past weekend we would have been first in line to dog on the usually pale yellow belly regal blue tang, Paracanthurus hepatus, from the Indian Ocean. While visiting Marine Designs near Atlanta Georgia, among some of the awesome…

Dr. G’s Marine Aquaculture includes phytoplankton, oyster and copepod products

Dr G’s Marine Aquaculture is a new aquarium company offering up some liquid foods for reef tanks made from phytoplankton, oyster and copepods. In addition to the Oyster Magnifique and Live Tiger Copepods, Dr. G’s first product to be spotted…

Machado de Sousa’s Coral Maternity is a quite impressive garage fish room

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToZtYTy9qIE[/youtube] When you think of a fish room, a long line of 20 gallon-ish aquariums on 2×4 racks usually come to mind. These systems do certainly get the job done, one just needs to look at Joe Lichtenbert‘s old fish…

Lookdown Gyre tank by SEA Atlanta is a very unique concept fish aquarium (video)

We’ve all seen dedicated lookdown tanks – big tall cylindrical tanks in which lookdown fish, Selene vomer, can swim around in circles ad infinitum without running into any objects or the sides of the tank. The problem is that even…

Reef Culture Technologies already beginning to ship a few ‘Hawaiian Cherub’ angelfish

Without context the image above shows a trio of the ubiquitous Caribbean pygmy angelfish, Centropyge argi, but if we told you these fish were made in Hawaii you might call us crazy. That is until we tell you that these…

Salifert’s Coralline AminoAcids is a well-kept secret for encouraging stony coral growth

Salifert’s Coralline Aminoacids has been around for well over a decade so you would think that its amazing stony coral growing powers would be well known to all, but lots of veteran reefers still haven’t heard the good news. As…

Rare and unknown blenny species also pictured in recent description of new Meiacanthus

Last week saw the publication of the original description of three new Meiacanthus species but this paper also included rarely before seen photos of five other Meiacanthus blennies. The five Meiacanthus pictured include M. vittatus, M. crinitus, M. luteus, M.…