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First Defense Stress Relief for Reefs by Dr Tim’s Aquatics

First Defense was developed to help fish adapt to new environments by assisting the fishesâ€™ natural immune system.Â Changing the environment of a fish causes stress that robs fish of essential nutrients…

Nutramar Ova fish food is made from prawn eggs

Nutramar produces a product called Ova. OvaÂ is made from all natural prawn eggs. “These eggs are highly nutritious and are an ideal size for feeding corals and smaller fish. Ova makes soft corals, small and large polyp scleractinia (SPS…

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Publishes CITES Proposals

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service published a notice which describes proposed resolutions, decisions and agenda items that the United States may submit for consideration at the conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild…

New Elos suncolor LED captured on video

Elos has released a video of their new Suncolor LED module in action. The module which looks like the original Elos suncolor that used a 150 HQI metal halide bulb, but instead this module uses all LEDs. A quick glance…

Plasma lighting by Aqua Illumination gets its own tank

The new plasma light that is still being tested by Aqua Illumination was mounted above a tank and the lighting unit looks to be very bright. The emitter that is used in the unit is a Luxim STA-40 plasma lamp…

LiveAquaria’s show sized wrought iron butterflyfish

Chaetodon daedalma has been and always will be one of the most striking and unique butterflyfish in the world. This Japanese endemic grows very large, it has striking presence in the aquarium, they have a vigorous appetite and a personality…

Some amazing corals hiding in plain sight

So many rare and unusual corals that are infrequently seen in the trade make up a small percentage of all corals which are harvested for the ornamental coral trade. With that premise, LiveAquaria’s ability toÂ handle a huge number of…

We told you Malaysian corals were hot!

Malaysian corals are just starting to spread out to various and we are excited at what we are seeing so far. Like we said in our previous post about Borneo/Malaysian corals,Â fungiids and mussids will be greatly represented with this…

LiveAquaria’s Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus syn., the orange face angelfish

The orange face angelish, Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus, is a highly elusive ‘species’ of Chaetodontoplus. This elusive fish is only available from Taiwanese reefs and the fish is believed to be a hybrid species perhaps between C. septentrionalis and C. melanosoma. There…