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Tunze video response challenges the conclusions, not the data, of the propeller pump study
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLkW1-6HbQk[/youtube] Make no mistake about it, the video uploaded hours ago by Tunze Gmbh is a direct response to the results of the propeller pump study published a couple weeks…
Sustainable Aquatics’ Color-Changing Ocellaris Clownfish is a pretty wild mutation
Tennessee-based Sustainable Aquatics is releasing a new variety of Ocellaris Clownfish this week that they are calling the Color-Changing Ocellaris. These fish are the offspring from a single pair of normal Amphiprion ocellaris. Some of the offspring randomly undergo a…
Dyed animals still an unfortunate reality in the reef aquarium hobby
When we think of dyed corals and anemones in the aquarium trade, the first thing we picture is grainy low quality images from the generic reef aquarium books of the 1980s and 1990s. Imagine our surprise when we saw the…
Cute mounting bracket coming soon for TMC’s MiniLED 400
The TMC MiniLED 400 mounting bracket is coming soon to elegantly suspend life giving photons over your nano aquarium. Tropical Marine Centre’s MiniLED 400 is a nano LED aquarium light that launched earlier this summer with 12 watts between four…
Meet the sailfin jawfish, a little known deepwater caribbean beauty
Rabaulichthys anthias are not the only fish in the reefs to sport elaborate dorsal finnage. Check out the beast of a jawfish that is the sail-fin jawfish, this specimen being tentatively identified as Opistognathus lonchurus. Hailing from the Western Atlantic, the…
Cree announces new higher performance Royal Blue LED with the XLamp XTE
The Cree Royal Blue XTE LED is a specially designed diode from Cree which delivers a very strong output of blue light at 445 nm and optimized for use in remote phosphor LED applications. Remote phosphor LEDs are those which…
Black Snowflake clownfish coming soon from ORA
The Black Snowflake Clownfish is a new strain of ocellaris clownfish which ORA was originally aiming to produce when they came up with the black ice semi snowflake clownfish. The Black Ice Snowflake was created simply by crossing a snowflake…
Papercuts and Stray Voltage in the marine aquarium
A few days ago, I gave myself a small papercut on one of my fingers. I don’t think there are many positive attributes with a paper cut. But yesterday, that same paper cut clued me into some stray voltage in…
Waterproof gadgets let you jam out around your tank
Two of our favorite things include reef aquariums and music, and a couple of cool new gadgets will let us combine the two without any worry about water damage to our precious music-listening devices. First on the table is the…
Unique and weird jawfish-mimic octopus interaction videoed in Lembeh Straits
[vimeo width=”680″ height=”420″]http://vimeo.com/23317612[/vimeo] The video by Godehard Korp is certainly one of the strangest and most unique interactions between marine animals we have ever seen. The Mimic Octopus shown crawling on the muck reefs of Lembeh-Straits has a truly unique…
Video: How to Set Up the Red Sea Complete Reef Care Program
When Red Sea changed its popular dosing system from seven parts to a controlled ratio…
A whopping 62 species reported as new from the Coral Sea Marine Park
Reef Builders Alumni and master ichthyologist, Yi Kai, has teamed up with a star studded…
BYOGuides Announces New Workshops
Russel Kelly has created an iconic set of Be Your Own (BYO) Guides which serve…
Tunze Launches English YouTube Channel
Known for its bulletproof pumps and German engineering, Tunze has also been big on YouTube…
