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Treating a Sick Marine Fish? First Do No Harm!
When a fish in our care gets sick, it’s a perfectly understandable impulse to want to throw every cure we can lay our hands on at the problem. But sometimes rushing ahead…
‘Blue Dragon’ sea slug washed ashore in Australia
The Blue Dragon sea slug is one of the reasons we love the underrated nudibranch so much. With bright and vivid colors, a surreal shape and deadly behavior, the Blue Dragon is certainly a sight to see. You might see…
Bashsea I-SEA coral viewer impresses
One thing about Bashsea’s products is they immediately grab your attention and this is the same for one of the company’s latest additions — the Bashsea I-SEA Coral Viewer. Made with thick acrylic in four colors, it also includes some…
Tridacna derasa: A Good Excuse to Clam Up!
Of all the Tridacna spp. clams available to hobbyists, perhaps the hardiest and easiest to maintain of them all is Tridacna derasa, the so-called smooth giant clam. This species is so smooth, in fact, that amorous, gold-chain-wearing male specimens have…
Take our Black Friday shopping survey!
Black Friday is right around the corner! Not only is this a great time to get a new toaster or TV, it is a great time to grab some deals around the aquarium. We wanted to see how you, the…
An intimate look at the amazing Montipora
While the rest of the world is currently going gaga for shrooms and fuzzy sticks, we’re rekindling our love interest with Montipora. In some ways, the multicolored polyps and nodules and growth forms of various Montipora species was strongly responsible for the…
Rare double fin firefish makes its way to House of Fins
A rare double-finned common firefish has just made its way to the aquarium hobby and it’s quite the attention grabber. If there’s one thing that firefish are well known for, it’s that prominent first dorsal fin. So you can imagine…
Unboxing the Jellyfish Art Cylinder Nano Aquarium
Jellyfish Art launched a Kickstarter Campaign showing off a completely redesigned desktop nano aquarium for keeping the Moon Jellyfish; this aquarium was shown off at both MACNA 2015 and more recently the Aquatic Experience – Chicago. Now, we’re able to give…
3.4 Fairy Wrasses: The filamentosus group
The filamentosus group presents the reader with a collection of familiar, aquarium-friendly species, many of which are exuberantly colored and morphologically quirky. Despite some superficial differences in colors and fin shapes, the overall morphology strongly implies that this is the…
Sometimes You Need to Overfeed Your Fish
You’ve heard time and again, here at Saltwater Smarts and elsewhere, that overfeeding is one of the surest ways to cause ill health in fish and pollute your aquarium water. The usual recommendation is to offer foods in very small…
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…
