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Only Bad Things Happen Fast: How to Avoid Beginner Mistakes
Wouldn’t it be nice if before you started a project you knew what to look out for so that you could avoid costly mistakes? Like when you started to drive you understood…
Clownfish Stripes Determine Confrontation and Aggression Levels
A research article published in the Journal of Experimental Biology has found that Clownfish can count the number of bars on their congeners and conspecifics, determining their level of aggression toward them, and their host defense. The paper authored by…
Gracilaria vs Vibrio: The Antimicrobial Properties of Red Macroalgae
Bacteria of the family Vibrionaceae are some of the most universally present microbes in aquatic environments. Even well-established reef aquariums, exhibiting no apparent problems, likely contain a number of Vibrio bacteria species. This is because many species and strains of…
Poma Labs WYSIWYG Stubby Conspic Pair Promises to Divide Opinion
Angelfish aquaculturists Poma Labs are offering a pair of short-bodied Spectacled Angelfish, Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus for sale on their website. Conspic angels are one of the most coveted large Angelfish species available to saltwater aquarium owners, although usually they are rectangular…
Colorado Narrowly Misses New Tax on Every Pet Animal Owned – Including Fish!
The United States Association of Reptile Keepers has just fought and won a battle that would have seen Colorado House Bill 24-1163 add a new tax of up to $8.50 on every household pet owned in the state, including cats,…
Short-nosed Tripodfish Recorded for the First Time in the Red Sea
A member of the Tetraodontiform family Triacanthidae has been recorded for the first time in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia. The Short Nosed Tripodfish, Triacanthus biaculeatus, is widespread across the whole Indo–West Pacific, ranging from the…
Plectranthias sagamiensis comes to the US for the First Time
The Threadtail Perchlet, Plectranthias sagamiensis, has been sold in the US for the first time by rare fish importer Unique Fins. Hailing from the deep waters of Japan and Indonesia, P.sagamiensis can be found at depths of over 100 meters,…
How to Manage Reef Tank Pests
Typically when starting a new project we only see the positive aspects and every task is filled with excitement and anticipation. For instance, when setting up a new garden in the Spring, we cultivate the soil, plant the seeds fertilize…
10 Gallon Nano Reef Tank Makeover
If you’ve ever kept multiple systems at once, you know that sometimes we all have those one tanks – the ones you don’t have time for. You tell yourself you’ll find time, but then you don’t – this repeats for…
TRITON Reef 2.0 will be a Great Barrier Reef Biotope
We still haven’t forgotten just how good TRITON’s original display tank was in Dusseldorf 10 years ago, so we were super excited to see that now TRITON Founder Ehsan Dashti is settled in Australia, he and the TRITON team are…
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…
Eviota bacata is a New Species of dwarfgoby from New Caledonia
A new species of Eviota goby has been described from Grand Terra, New Caledonia, taking…
Signature Frags’ Split Personality Spliced Acro May Have Been Born Out of Stress!
Reef Builders is no stranger to spliced Acropora, but this one came out of British…
Reef Builders Raj Works on 10,000 Gallon Mega Tank Build
Raj has never really flexed his skill set to the Reef Builders audience before. He…
