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Nyos Nitrate test kit has easily read scale and takes only two steps
Nyos is a budding high end marine aquarium product company which first broke onto the reef scene with some private-labelled cone protein skimmers for Europe, but they’ve been busy developing a whole…
Protein Skimmers infographic by Marine Depot breaks down foam fractionation
The protein skimmer is the heart of most marine aquariums, fish-only and reef-centric, yet we hardly give this refined piece of aquarium equipment the fundamental consideration it deserves. For every outline of basic protein skimmer function there are hundreds of…
Giant aquarium ruptures, injures 15 at mall in China
A large aquarium at a mall in Shanghai, China, burst and injured 15 people the other day. The 7-meter-long, 3-meter high aquarium was on the first floor of a mall that replaced a window between the inside and outside. The…
Solomon Reefs: get to know the reef life of the Coral Triangle
The corals and reef life of the Solomon Islands was once a bastion of aquarium harvesting activity where coral farming was pioneered and where our first really nice true percula clownfish came from. While we still have commercial aquarium activity in the…
Triton Lani LED could be Europe’s best-kept aquarium lighting secret Pt. 1
The Triton Lani LED is a very interesting reef aquarium lighting fixture which seems to hold a lot of potential, and a lot of great innovations. Coming from the Triton reef aquarium shop in Dusseldorf Germany, the Lani LED seems…
Craterastrea levis joins the newly minted family of stony corals: Coscinaraeidae
Craterastrea levis is not exactly a new coral, it was described in 1983 and it is known to exist in Egypt, Chagos and the Red Sea. Due to some superficial resemblance, Craterastrea was later synonymized with Leptoseris hawaiiensis and remained so until recently…
Premium Light Bar for Kessil A350 LED spotlights teased by Neptune Aquatics
The Premium Light Bar appears to be a home-grown aquarium product from Neptune Aquatics meant to serve as a way to elegantly mount Kessil’s uber popular A350 LED spotlights. Although the Kessil A350 already comes with some form of mounting…
Watanabe angelfish successfully bred and reared by Karen Britain
If we just stumbled across a random youtube video claiming to be documenting captive bred marine angefish we’d be skeptical to say the least. However we are a lot more credulous when we see that the video of captive bred…
Cree XLamp MK-R LED reaches for the 200lm/w barrier
The just-announced Cree XLamp MK-R is an all new product that has some impressive specs behind it, one of which being a maximum output of 1769lm @ 85C. Cree just can’t seem to take a break. With the various updates to their…
Sustainable Aquatics captive-bred Marine Bettas and stippled Clingfish trickling out to fish stores now
The marine betta is one of those classic marine aquarium fish that was once the bee’s knees, the pride of a fish keeper’s saltwater aquarium. With changing tastes and a whole new zoo of marine fish now available in the…
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…
