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SECORE is in full swing blogging about the Curacao coral spawning
Another summer season is nearing a close and in the Northern Hemisphere, that means that stony corals are getting horny; elkhorn and staghorn that is. For the last several years, the pre-eminent…
Sirius LED lighting from Sfiligoi in Italy
Sfiligoi has been busy whipping up another new product all the way over in Italy. This new LED line has been named Sirius and is designed to replace your T5 and T8 tubes. Apparently Europe isn’t content that they started…
Anagonbe’s Japanese Reef presented in High Definition Video
High definition video is the only way to really do justice to this amazine Japanese style reef aquarium by the one they call Anagonbe. This SPS dominated aquarium features very keenly arranged Acropora colonies which are grouped together based on…
Blue Planet Reef Farms specializes in captive reared fish
Blue Planet Reef Farms is a new venture from Vermont which is setting it’s sights on making post-larval fish aquaculture (captive-reared fish) fashionable again. Although post-larval reef fish aquaculture (PLA) is a fairly mature techonology, in the US the process…
Rock Beauty angelfish may now be available as captive reared fish
Somewhere, someone is offering either captive bred or captive reared Rock Beauty angelfish, Holacanthus tricolor, and French angelfish, Pomacanthus paru. We’ve contacted all the usual suspects to track down the source of this exciting new availability but so far we’ve…
First shots of NeWave, the prop style pump from Aquarium systems
We knew the NeWave pump was coming way back in March, or so we thought. However, Practical Fish keeping got to grab a nice shot of the NeWave pump from Aquarium Systems. Aquarium systems are they same guys that bring…
IceCap bids farewell to Anthony Calfo
That tie up with IceCap and Anthony Calfo comes to a close, after being together for only a short 10 months. IceCap announced that they would sever ties with Anthony as he pursues other efforts in the reef keeping hobby.…
USDA-APHIS: “Do you have a permit for those snails?”
In 2006 an act was passed that basically made you get a permit (PPQ 526)Â if you wanted to import snails into the country or across state lines. Recently, it has been reported that the USDA plans to start enforcing…
World Reef Conference gets moved to October 2010
The world reef conference which was supposed to be held later this year (October 3-4) in Chicago has been rescheduled to 2010. The World Reef Conference will be co-located with the H.H. Backer Associates’ Pet Industry Trade Show at the…
Soft Corals: Still Sexy After All These Years
Being a traveling fish geek/speaker, I probably get to see as many aquariums each month as some hobbyists do all year. In almost every city that I visit, I’m taken to amazing aquariums- some are huge, some are medium sized,…
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…
