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Good Karma Friday: share some goodness about one of your favorite products or companies

I was having a great conversation with Chris Clough of Aqua Illumination last weekend and we were talking about really relying on online user reviews and information on products to make a…

True personifer angelfish come to the US from West Australia

In the late 90s, the personifer angelfish from Australia was split up into two species: the Classic ‘personifer’ angelfish from East Australia was named Chaetodontoplus meridithi and the angelfish from West Australia was given the nominal species name of C.…

Stanford researchers find electrical current from plants, algae

After years and years of us hating on algae we might start liking it again. We say this because researchers at Stanford University are generating electrical current by hooking into the electron activity of individual algae cells. Or in WonHyoung…

Aquacare’s new peristaltic dosing pump

Aquacare has a new dosing pump hitting the European market that will fill a missing link in their product line. The dosing pump is a one channel device that can pump 50 ml/min = 3 l/h. You can get smaller…

Io LED light from Pacific Sun is 75 watts of controlled photons

The Io BTEX LED is a smaller iteration of the Phobos and Deimos do-it-all LED aquarium light from Pacific Sun. Like the other LED lights names after celestial bodies, the Io features top of the line Cree XP-G and XP-E…

Reef ball type cemetery allows for burial at sea for your cremated remains

Reef enthusiasts and ocean lovers now have another final resting place to call home. In addition to the Neptune Memorial Reef a person may now be laid to rest in a Reef Ball. A company called Reef Innovations is constructing…

Bubble corals featured in today’s release of Advanced Aquarist

Although some people might pigeon-hole James Fatheree into being the Giant Clam guy, James is showing some new colors by writing a great article on a classic reef aquarium animal, the bubble corals. We’ve always had quite a lot of…

Reef Demon is the first open source add-on to the Reef Angel aquarium controller

The Reef Angel open source aquarium controller has barely been out of the gate for a month and yet it is already gaining traction with third party developers. The new Reef Demon add-on is the first announced project to compliment…

Cerameco’s Vida Rock getting some great new shapes

Cerameco introduced the Vida Rock recently, a ceramic alternative to live rock, and were on hand at MAX this weekend at the Utah Marine Aquarium Society booth showcasing some of the cool handmade creations. This environmentally friendly solution to traditional…