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Apogonichthyoides sialis is a rare and subtly elegant species of cardinalfish

Apogonichthyoides sialis is one of the least known cardinalfish in the aquarium trade. They are not common but unusal in a family of cardinalfish that contains over three hundred species. Apogonighthyoides sialis has…

New video of SEA Aquarium at Resort World Sentosa shows how it is clearly the world’s largest

Resort World Sentosa is an entertainment playground in Singapore which recently opened the world’s largest public aquarium. The sprawling aquatic life compound at S.E.A. Aquarium spans ten different zones with all manner of habitats for large sharks, zebra sharks, manta…

iGlo LED heads to Kickstarter to help fund wireless LED controller

At first glance, the iGlo WiFi LED controller campaign on Kickstarter is just another cool and semi-useful LED project on the crowd-funding site, but when you start peeling back the layers and realize the iGlo platform has the potential to…

Bright Lifegard LED thermometer forces you to pay attention to temperature

As a staunch advocate of better temperature regulation and monitoring for any kind of aquarium, the LED thermometer from Lifegard caught our attention before we even plugged it in. With a brilliant shining blue LED displaying your aquarium’s water temperature, Lifegard’s latest…

A couple of hybrid Thalassoma wrasses found in Australia

Hybridised animals never cease to amaze and even the most jaded collector is not immune to their uniqueness The random combination of DNA thrown together by nature’s genetic dice can often prove more surprising than our wildest imaginations. If someone…

Dana Riddle and Clive Bentley are going to teach you something about light at MACNA

Dana Riddle and Clive Bentley, two of the reef aquarium hobby’s biggest lighting experts, are the latest speakers to be announced to the star-studded lineup that will be presenting at MACNA XXV. If you’ve been in the hobby a long…

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XM-L2 is Cree’s new highest performing LED ever

Cree has been on a tear of late updating their workhorse LEDs to silicon carbide substrates, and while the efficiency gains of LEDs like the XP-E2 and XP-G2 have been incremental, the new XM-L2 takes things to a whole new…

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Join the opposition against new, proposed Hawaii fish collection ban

Hawaii is looking to alter the collection of reef fish as the Department of Land & Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources is having a hearing to discuss the managed fishery for the aquarium trade. There are significant environmental opponents…