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Visit Marineland and Two Little Fishes MACNA booths for freebies
Like any good card-carrying industry trade show, MACNA 2012 will feature lots of free goodies from a host of various vendors and exhibitors. In addition to the free samples, buttons and the…
Sea spider video shows Pycnogonids like never seen before
Sea Spiders are widespread in the ocean and on coral reefs yet we hardly, almost never, encounter them in our reef aquariums. We can think of just a couple of times seeing the lone sea spider walking along some fresh live rock…
Reef Angel is stepping up its game with a new logo, a new website, and even more expansion feautures
Admit it, most of you think of the Reef Angel controller as an entry level controller, although cool and moving in the right direction, not yet worthy to be placed next to all your other high end toys. But Reef…
Coral Fluorescent Protein (CFP) Checker Flashlight makes it easier to search for special corals
The Coral Fluorescent Protein Checker Flashlight is the coolest tool we’ve yet seen to help us reefers to “paint by numbers” with the different wavelengths of LED colored light. Like the full-spectrum edition KR93 the CFP Checker flashlight is a…
Baby Rhizotrochus found in Pieter-6-meter’s basement
On the reef-related websites, Pieter van Suijlekom is better known as ‘Pieter-6-meter‘, referring to the size of his tank. This topic is about something in his less well-known tank, namely his azooxanthelate reef. This tank is kept in Pieter’s basement, where…
Nano goby turns a Bullock’s Hypselodoris nudibranch into its own habitat
[vimeo width=”680″ height=”450″]http://vimeo.com/48234146[/vimeo] We tend to think of small reef fish living in a wide range of habitats but some species of Eviota and Trimma are so small that they can be at home on other reef creatures that are small…
Ruesai Leelapruht’s simple yet elegant reef system from Thailand
Beauty as relating to aquariums does not have to depend on the size of coral colonies, rarity of fish or even the latest and greatest equipment. A good layout with well balanced rock and coral placement alone can go really…
Opistognathus decorus – tattoo jawfish is made with the color and size of a polleni grouper
Opistognathus decorus, the Tattoo Jawfish is the soul of a Polleni grouper trapped in the body of a jawfish. You can imagine how hard our jaw hit the floor when we got our first look at Opistognathus decorus, the most…
Friday Smorgasbord: Mutant GlowFish epidemic, Petco releases infographic on ‘Nemo’ care, light vomiting shrimp, tracking fish through earbones and Neptune’s moon ocean
We have a full slate of tidbits and morsels for this issue of the Friday smorgasbord so let’s get things rocking. First off is the fears that genetically modified Electric Green Tetras may pose a hazard to native species in parts of…
New AquaMaxx Nano Star Calcium Reactor looking to pack a big punch with a small size
The new AquaMaxx Nano Star Calcium Reactor is not the first nano-sized reactor from the Southern California company but the latest iteration does feature an even smaller size without trading off on performance. Oh yeah, did we mention it is…
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…
