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Avast Marine Diaphragm pump is the mother of all top off pumps
The new diaphragm water pump that Avast Marine has just revealed is the beefiest in the genre we have seen to date. Not since Innovative Marine’s Hydrofill ATO pump have we seen…
PE Mysis Energy Flakes and Pellets coming next year
Piscine Energetics is on a mission to deliver their highly nutritious Canadian mysis shrimp to as many aquarium fish as possible, in all conceivable forms. PE Mysis Energy Flakes and Energy Pellets are the first ever prepared foods from Piscine that…
Zap-Cal aquarium descaler goes beyond the acid bath
Zap-Cal is a much-needed aquarium equipment cleaning product that is much more than a simple bath of acid to remove precipitated calcium, scale and lime deposits. Made by Crystal Clear Aquatics, Zap-Cal has its roots in a formula developed by…
Awesome Fish Spotlight: The Mauritian endemic Pseudojuloides xanthomos
Pseudojuloides is a genus of touchy labrids that are aptly named pencil wrasses for their slender figure. The genus boasts a sizeable number of mostly colourful sexually dichromatic species, of which only a small sampling is offered to the aquarium trade.…
Chalk Bass: A Caribbean Jewel Custom Made for Marine Aquariums
Anyone who has visited Saltwater Smarts on a regular basis knows that Chris has a bizarre fixation on Caribbean species. No livestock—fish or invertebrate—originating outside the Caribbean/tropical Western Atlantic is allowed in his tank. If he could, he’d probably go…
Handmade acropora ‘supercolonies’ intentionally spawned in an aquarium
The story of what Jamie Craggs and friends have accomplished with their ‘manufactured’ mother colonies is nothing short of astounding. Working at the Horniman Museum and Aquarium, in less than 12 months they went from frags, to sexually viable colonies…
Sicce looking to retrofit Shark filters as internal media reactors
We first saw the Sicce ADV internal filter at Aquarama in Singapore but versions of this filter have been OEM’d for other companies for years. Sicce’s nifty Shark ADV internal filter has already been an attention grabber for using magnets to stack…
Join us at Dallas NextWave this Saturday, May 3rd
The spring 2014 reef aquarium conference is in full swing with Dallas next in line to shine this weekend. Saturday May 3rd at the Sheraton Hotel the Dallas Fort Worth Marine Aquarium Society, the same who guys who brought us…
Small size PE Mysis Special Grade available by special request
The best thing about Piscine Energetics Mysis shrimp is how rich and nutrient dense these freshwater crustaceans are, and how quickly that translates into well-conditioned, fat happy fish. The only catch all this time has been that if you wanted…
RoboSnail ups its auto-algae cleaning ability to 1/2″ thick glass
The RoboSnail has become the ‘Roomba’ of cleaning aquarium glass and as of today, we can look forward to the RoboSnail working on even larger aquariums. AquaGenesis, maker of the RoboSnail is announcing a new higher capacity RoboSnail model to…
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…
