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Reader Review: The Avant-Garde Marine Aquarist

Special thanks to Patrick Sugent for taking the time to write and submit the following review of Paul “Paul B” Baldassano’s The Avant-Garde Marine Aquarist: A 60-Year History of Fishkeeping. We couldn’t…

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Fishbit aquarium monitor and controller launches at CES

The Fishbit is a new aquarium controller and monitor which aims to simplify the process of keeping tabs on your aquarium when you are not around. Fishbit takes a radically different approach to aquarium monitoring by combining all the important sensors…

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Kessil A160we LED spotlight review: the best gets even better

When it comes to LED spotlights for our aquariums, there’s basically Kessil, and everybody else. Where nearly all other manufacturers have focused their efforts on building essentially the same tablet-shaped fixture with varying colors and intensities of diodes and a…

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Giesemann-UK launches to offer more balanced pricing in UK and Europe

Here in North America we are accustomed to having a competitive environment that provides a wide range of options, which can include direct online retail access, to all aspects of aquarium equipment, but in Europe it is quite different. For…

Deep Water

Descending devices allow fisherman to release deep sea fish unharmed

Principle tenets of being responsible aquarists and fisherman is to be good stewards of the resources that we’ve been endowed. For aquarists this means sourcing sustainably caught or captive bred fish, and for fisherman this means releasing fish that are…

Bali Aquarich's latest, the new hybrid "Citron" Clownfish.

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Citron Clownfish—Bali Aquarich’s New Intergeneric Hybrid Anemonefish

A very interesting clownfish was recently brought to my attention by MJ Jones, who saw the fish labeled as “CF217X” at east coast wholesaler Carolina Aquatics, asking what I thought it was. Anyone who has become enthralled with the Anemonefish produced…

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Multi Light Radion Mounting System (RMS) released by Ecotech Marine

The Multi-Light Radion Mounting System is the first end-to-end light mounting solution the hobby has been clamoring for to affix more than one Radion LED light over our aquariums. The Multi-Light RMS is a three part kit that can be fitted…

Additive

aquavitro seed and remediation are latest products in Seachem’s premier line

Seachem has two more additions to its aquavitro line with the new products dubbed aquavitro remediation and aquavitro seed. It is hard to believe Seachem launched its aquavitro line nearly seven years ago and there hasn’t been too many editions to…

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Neptune Systems DoS fluid metering system hands-on and teardown

The DoS Fluid Metering System from Neptune Systems was one of the company’s most exciting new product announcements at MACNA last year, and a lucky few early adopters received their new device right at the closing of the year. We…

Coral

Anemone Lookalike: The Long-Tentacled Plate Coral

Easily mistaken for an anemone at first glance, Heliofungia actiniformis is a large-polyp stony (LPS) coral that can be an excellent option for reefkeepers with modest-sized systems. Even relative newcomers to the reefkeeping hobby can succeed with this species, provided…