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Tear Down The Wall! Re-imagining rockwork for a new century

One of the biggest problems for most hobbyists when incorporating live rock into their display is figuring out how much live rock needs to be used. In the â€œold daysâ€, it was…

Instructions for Fauna Marin’s new Light Balling method

The balling method is a popular method in which to provide your aquarium with calcium, magnesium, carbonate hardness and trace elements. However, strong lighting, stony coral husbandry and special bacterial systems have changed the water chemistry requirements, which made it…

Aquarium Stimulus Program: Win a Puratek 100GPD R.O. unit

With the aquarium season ramping up, what better time to refresh your R.O. unit with a state of the art Puratek 100?Â The puratek 100 differentiates itself from other units by having a pressure gauge, flush valve and shut off…

MSX300A protein skimmer from Marine Solutions still isn’t available yet

Way back in May, Marine Solutions announced their new MSX300A protein skimmer. They teased that the price would be $1799 poking fun at higher-end skimmers only to reveal that the price would be around $800. The skimmer has a foot…

Vortech caught by Thermal Camera

We really don’t know what is better. Owning a vortech, or owning a vortech and a thermal camera. That is exactly what one hobbyist has. A Thermal Camera. He hooked up his thermal camera and took some snaps of warm…

Decorator crab captured stealing zoos from Coral Morphologic

So this is where all those amazingly beautiful zoas have been going to. It makes perfect sense. Read

Quality Marine presents the mother of all Red Margin Fairy Wrasses

There are red margin fairy wrasses and then there are Fiji hand selected supermale Cirrhilabrus rubrimarginatus wrasses from Quality Marine. Maybe it was the LEDs or perhaps it was the Long Beach water but something about this supermale red Margin…

Would you drink skimmer juice for $20?

Little bro probably had no idea how gross that would be.

9 watt internal UV sterilizer from Mr. Aqua might give parasites a tan

The 9 watt internal UV steriliser from Mr. Aqua is a neat idea, there are very few small internal UV steriliser on the aquarium market these days. However, one drawback to having an internal US steriliser is that the size…

New Butterflyfish discovered in Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument

Papahanaumokuakea National Marine Monument has just yielded a new species of butterflyfish which appears to be very similar to Prognathodes basabei. The new butterflyfish was discovered by self professed fish nerd Richard Pyle using his signature rebreather deep diving techniques.…