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Up close and personal with Synchiropus occidentalis

To be perfectly honest, our first look at the West Australia Dragonet appeared to show a species which bears a lot of similarities to the common green target mandarin. The Dragonet from…

Cubic Aquarium looks to Polyplab for distribution in the American market

There’s been a lot of hustle and bustle at Polyplab lately with the release of Reef-Roids Nano and Orca Labs NitraGuard BioCubes and now they’re going for the jellyfish tank market. Polyplab has been named the exclusive North American distributor…

LED Showdown Semifinals: down to the Final Four

We’re getting down to the end of the road and have the Final Four in our 2012 LED showdown. We have four great fixtures in the pool and at this point, any of these lights are worthy of the crown…

Thieves rob local fish store with everything caught on tape (again)

Stealing is an unfortunate reality even in this hobby, and over the years we’ve almost lost count how many times local fish stores have been blatantly robbed. Strangely almost all of the incidents have the robbers clearly caught on camera.…

Atomic Reef is back at producing nuclear reef aquarium equipment

Atomic Reef the company we initially covered for their macho and nuclear neon green reactors, is back to producing their acrylic reactors, skimmers, sumps and other products. Since covering Atomic Reef back in August and with the general spread of name…

120R1 Saltwater Aquatics LED has a little of everything

The 120R1 LED fixture from Saltwater Aquatics is an interesting light with a fairly tame design but a whole lot of different features. Seven colors of LEDs are distributed across four channels although one channel is all white, two other…

Industry trailblazers Clive Bentley and Chris Turnier will be ReefStock’s Saturday speakers

ReefStock 2013 is fast approaching so it’s time to let ya’ll know who’ll be speaking and why these are the best guys for the job this year. We are incredibly pleased this year to expand to two days, with Clive…

Solitary coral poetry

We like to share a lot of news on this here blog, most of it pertaining to new species, rare fish, exciting equipment, some occasional ocean science and artworks but real bonafide poetry is notably absent. In an effort to…

Indian Ocean Chromis fieldi separated from Red Sea C. dimidiata

Chromis fieldi is a newly described species of damselfish from the Indian Ocean which was recently identified and described as a separate species from Chromis dimidiata. The new description published in Aqua now recognizes Chromis dimidiata as a Red Sea…