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Friday Smorgasbord: Shark family trees, undiscovered oceans, saving sea life, and Antarctic life

Great white sharks and the ancient megashark, Carcharocles megalodon, were often linked as cousins and kin of sorts. Not a big leap in imagination to link the modern terror of the sea to…

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Exotic Sealife International brings in a mother lode of hot corals

We as reef hobbyist are dependent on our local retailer to provide us with the best quality corals and fish for our aquariums. However, retailers are continuously visiting or calling wholesalers from coast to coast looking to purchase that incredible…

Sicce Syncra Silent 4 & 5 are quiet enough to be approved for living room use

When Sicce approached us about reviewing their new and improved Sicce Syncra 4&5 water pumps we were a little bit hesitant; we already have nearly all of our sumped aquariums equipped with Sicce Syncra pumps. Our primary large fish aquarium,…

Find your inner peace with Wave Zen aquarium

We appreciate unique aquariums and the Amtra Wave Zen Artist is an interesting aquarium that combines a Zen garden an smal aquarium. The combination aquarium features a rimless cube aquarium resting in a lacquered tray to help bring peace, relaxation and serenity…

Royal Exclusiv now selling pumps and sumps direct on its slick new website

In a new development which is sure to excite the reef aquarium gearheads, Royal Exclusiv has just given its dusty old geocities-era website a complete makeover with more than a superficial outcome. On the new RoyalExclusiv.net website you’ll find a modern web…

The Reef Angel Wifi Attachment allows total aquarium control without wires

We’ve been running a Reef Angel controller for a long time now, and so far it has performed very well. Setting up timers, auto top off, heaters and such was a slight hassle (especially since Reef Angel was still in…

Vertex V-Colla Viola epoxy wants to secure your frags

The new Vertex Aquaristik V-Colla Viola reef-safe epoxy is a new two-part epoxy designed to be reef safe and help keep cloudiness out of the system. Developed in Germany in conjunction with GlueTec, the epoxy not only will not cloud…

Vincent Chalias, Bali Coral Farmer extraordinaire, will be a speaker at MACNA 2013

You may not know Vincent Chalias directly but if you’ve been an active coral reef keeper in the last decade, chances are you’ve handled some of his corals and may have some in your tank right now. For fifteen years…

Tomiyamichthys smithi is the largest showy goby you’ve never even heard of

Tomiyamichthys smithi is just one of many different species of larger shrimp gobies from this little known genus. Although not as colorful as the shrimp associated gobies in the genus Cryptocentrus, the Monster Shrimpgoby genus Tomiyamichthys includes many different fish with complicated…