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Aqua Vision Aquatics brand lands on Marine Depot this week
Aqua Vision Aquatics are a new line of aquarium additive and medication products that appeared on Marine Depot this last week. With products to take care of aiptasia to cyanobacteria to excessive…
Coral larvae know the meaning of stoplight colors, backwards
It is common knowledge in the coral reef aquarium world that corals fluoresce in a multitude of colors, but coral larvae fluoresce as well. Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) is one of the most common fluorescent pigments found in the natural…
Prodac fish food now with biodegradable containers
Prodac is a maker of fish and turtle foods from Italy whose foods comes in a plastic lidded container the same as many others. However unlike the majority of the plastic found in our daily lives, Prodac has just announced…
Algae Control Test kit from Red Sea gets unboxed and tried out
The Algae Control Test Kit from Red Sea is a phosphate and a nitrate test kit. If the Algae Control test was just a combination pack, we wouldn’t have much left to say about it but this new product from…
Stubby-fin Fairy Wrasse in Alor Indonesia is probably a new species
There is a distinctive and unusual looking fairy wrasse lurking around Alor in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. The unusual wrasse is most likely an undescribed species of Cirrhilabrus which has a dorsal fin that is unlike any other…
Rising ocean temperatures is making some coral populations move to cooler reefs
In addition to coral bleaching events, increases in ocean temperatures are having another affect on reef building corals, with populations of some species migrating away from the equator. A new study found corals around Japan shifting north to waters thought…
Breeding Albino Ocellaris will get you thrown in jail in South Africa
According to a thread on MarineAquariumSA, Marcel Triessl has been thrown in Jail for trying to breed Albino Ocellaris Clownfish. Marcel has been dealing with the authorities on obtaining the permits needed to breed marine organisms for several months now.…
2nd Annual Marine Breeding Initiative Workshop Announced
It’s official – arguably the only event of it’s kind in the country (oh heck, let’s just go big and say the only one in the WORLD), the 2nd Annual Marine Breeder’s Workshop has been announced for Saturday, July 23,…
The Reefstock Allstars have some Thorny Competition in the Muzac Biz
[youtube width=”600″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpMOrX1fzGM[/youtube] We thought reefers were the only geeks to melodically rhapsodize about the wet life. We thought wrong. Nothing like ichtho-molectular-bio-genetic-research parodies of Timberlake and Timbaland to bring aquatic geekdom to a whole new level. While it’s not…
Winners of the Vertex ME video contest announced, congrats to Williamsport Area High School
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdP7Oy_t1cU[/youtube] Vertex Aquaristik recently announced the winners of their Vertex ME contest and we have to say that based on merit alone, we were pretty sure that Williamsport Area High School was going to win. With over 2000…
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…
