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Polyp Lab Nano Reef-Roids Coral Food perfect for Gonies and other filter feeders

Polyp Lab Nano Reef-Roids Coral Food is a smaller version of the Reef-Roid food by the Swedish Canadian company. The Nano Reef-Roids was developed with Goniopora’s in mind but will work well with other filter feeders that consume…

ATB upgrades premium skimmer line to DC pumps – the future is here

ATB skimmers will, starting this week, begin being shipped with controllable Airstar DC pumps. This is a big deal for ATB skimmer performance, but to the progress of the industry as whole this news is even more significant. DC pumps long…

Even the big coral wholesalers are getting cozy with LEDs

While many aquarists and some stores are busy holding onto technologies of the past, even the big time coral wholesalers on LA’s infamous one hundred and fourth street are adopting LED lighting in a big way. While in SoCal for the…

Is the ATI PowerCone the most sophisticated consumer protein skimmer ever made?

It seems like we’ve been covering ATI’s forthcoming super skimmer the ATI PowerCone for nearly two years. However, the suite of features and the sweet price point of the PowerCone may have been worth the wait. Over two years ago…

Sensational plating Pectinia colonies ready to further the chalice coral craze

Pectinia is one of the most overlooked coral genera of all the LPS stony corals and for good reason too. Until recently all the Pectinia that were collected for the aquarium trade were brown, grey or greenish with boring shapes and…

Vertex Illumina Dashboard Software is everything you could’ve thought of and more

The Vertex Illumina (not to be confused with the Vertex Illluminata) is currently one of the higher end LED fixtures on the market. As a result the Illumina LED comes with all the bells and whistles we have now come…

Ocean Blue Aquarium’s 90 gallon reef is a display worthy of a high end LFS

Ocean Blue Aquarium is a fishstore with a seriously cool display reef aquarium. To many the main displays in your local fishstores were one of the first live reef aquarium’s they encountered when they first got started out in the…

Hybrid Angelfish

Coral Beauty angelfish hybrids seem to be the result of three way hybridization

Just when we think we’ve seen it all when it comes to pygmy angelfish hybrids, along comes not one but a pair of unusual coral beauty angelfish which make us rethink this whole concept of hybridization. Classically, what we are…

Oziris lighting seeks to breathe new life into T5 aquarium fixtures

Oziris is a company from Israel you’ve likely never heard of before, so it will probably come to a surprise that they are looking to breathe new life into the T5 bulb with the release of their new fixtures. With…

The Mesoscope 2 makes it easy to take photos using only a smartphone

You’ll have to forgive us if instead of rushing into a hands-on and review of the Mesoscope 2 we dived right in and started playing with it. We’ll get into its much improved usability, ergonomics, function and compatibility with USB…