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An unusual butterflyfish hybrid of Chaetodon auriga and C. lineolatus

Hybrid angelfish seem to get a lot of attention but there also exists unusual hybrids of butterflyfish. The picture above shows an interesting hybrid that came into a local fish market last…

Video walkthrough of the Profiline digital dosing system from Coral-Shop

[vimeo width=”680″ height=”425″]http://vimeo.com/25193138[/vimeo] The Profiline digital dosing system from Coral-Shop is one of the most aesthetically designed and thoughtfully engineered aquarium products to come out in quite a long time. With the popularity of dosing two part solutions, balling and…

Supermale Halichoeres claudia, red-scribbled wrasse, is not your average Christmas wrasse

Halichoeres claudia at first glance may come across to many as just another “Christmas Wrasses”. The term, commonly allocated to most of the Halichoeres wrasses sporting similar coloration. H. claudia however, is no such stereotype. These lovely photographs of the supermale…

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AquaMaxx releases yet another biopellet product along with Carbon One and Phosphate Out

AquaMaxx recently released their BioMaxx plus pellets, adding to the wide array of biopellets to choose from. The BioMaxx plus pellets very much remind us of the ATB biopellets we got our hands on awhile back, the NOPO biopellets we…

Crosshatch basslet, Serranus luciopercanus gets a much needed photo and video update

The Caribbean is filled with tons of cool little basslets which are mostly limited to deeper waters, especially in the Serranus genus. The Snow Basslet and Tattler’s basslet have both already had their turn in the spotlight but this new…

Johnlen Micom Liquid Feeder is a dynamic dosing pump

The Micom Liquid Doser was originally built by Johnlen, makers of the Thermoelectric Chiller and the LED Heater, yet we originally covered the pump as relabeled by the Aquahouse doser. We got a look at a reworked version of the…

Hybrid Panther x Bumblebee grouper is both beautiful and edible

‘Fish are friends, not food”. Well, not so much for this man-made hybrid grouper. The amazing fish shown above is the result of a cross between the Panther grouper and the Bumblebee grouper (Cromileptes altivelis X Epinephelus lanceolatus). Bred for…

Sneak peek at the prototype Calcium Checker from Hanna

The Calcium Checker from Hanna could be the easy-to-use colorimeter for calcium testing that reef aquarists and LFS employees have always dreamed of. For those reef aquarium water testers who are either color blind or lack sensitivity between blue and…

Video walkthrough of Maxspect’s new flagship LED fixture, the third generation Mazarra

[vimeo width=”680″ height=”375″]http://vimeo.com/25094011[/vimeo] While we were in Singapore for Aquarama a few weeks ago, we had a chance to get some hands on time with the third generation Maxspect LED light, the Mazarra. Previously referred to by the codename of…

Ornate Ghost Pipefish births are like Panda babies of the fish world

[vimeo width=”600″ height=”400″]http://vimeo.com/24687192[/vimeo] Upon returning from an expedition to the Philippines, the team at the California Academy of Sciences has been continuing to wow the aquarium world with new discoveries and achievements. Last week, a video of the exotic Ornate…