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Build My LED goes head-to-head with T5 fluorescent lighting

We appreciate a good head-to-head competition and you know that if an LED manufacturer is going to release a video against a bank of T5 lighting, you can expect the LEDs to…

Aquatronica Black Box in final stages of release

Aquatronica is an European company largely known for their line of high end controllers, and was probably one of the first modular aquarium controllers to enter the market back in the day. Aquatronica has been working on a new and…

Porites fontanesii is a new coral species from the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden

There’s a new species of small polyp stony coral out of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden called Porites fontanesii. The new Porites was just bestowed with the formal description of its unusual colony shape and growth form. Unlike truly…

Hybrid cleaner goby (Elacatinus oceanops x E. figaro) available again from ORA

The hybrid cleaner goby is a one of a kind aquarium fish which doesn’t occur in nature (as far as we know) Resulting from the cross between a male blue neon cleaner goby Elacatinus oceanops and a female Brazilian endemic Yellowlline goby, Elacatinus…

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3 Reasons why the Aquatics industry is booming

The Aquatics industry is growing. That’s according to help wanted ads from aquatics companies across the United States and a few sources we have spoken with. Consider these three examples.

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Breaking: NOAA announces the proposal to list 66 stony coral species as endangered or threatened

Just hours ago NOAA and the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) made public their intention to move forward with the proposal to list 66 species of stony corals under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). You may recall that three years…

JNS Dosing containers are simple, stackable, and drain out completely

These JNS Dosing containers look great and probably work like great, but we have to admit that dosing containers are more of a nice accessory than anything else, mostly doing not much more than being more presentable than a regular…

Friday Smorgasbord: Immortal jellyfish, Frankenfish, robosnakes and aquaponics

Well our last Friday Smorgasbord of November features everything from fascinating to freaky to frightening and maybe something in between. Leading off our Friday tradition is an immortal jellyfish and how this creature could lead scientists to help prevent human…

Blackbar drum Pareques iwamotoi is an unknown but stunning Caribbean beauty

As big of fans as we are of Caribbean drum fish, we’ve only recently learned of the gorgeous black bar drum, Pareques iwamotoi. Hailing from the coastal waters of the United States Mexico and Central America the black bar drum is…

Neptune Distribution calcium reactors resemble My Reef Creations, but at least available to Europe

My Reef Creations (MRC) by this point is a staple of high performance aquarium equipment in the US market. However, Neptune Distribution a French company is releasing a calcium reactor that looks suspiciously close (nearly identical) to the MRC calcium…