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Friday Smorgasbord: Reef building volcanoes, space fish, water jumping robots and GoPro gets competition from JVC

We always knew volcanoes were a major player in the rebuilding of the ocean floor but a new bit of research shows that distant undersea volcanoes are helping build the Great Barrier…

MaxSpect Mazarra controller goes truly wireless with dedicated power supply

The Mazarra Controller is a simple, easy to use remote for up to 16 different Mazarra modules which up until now, had to be wired into the setup for power. The wireless Mazarra remote controller was not so wireless, but…

Saltwater Fish

We need more digital ‘self-reporting’ like Walt Smith Fiji’s videos of hand caught fish collection

Walt Smith Fiji has recently uploaded a series of short videos showing some expert divers cautiously and effectively wrangling up fish along the reefs using on a net. Not only is the skill involved with capturing these fish with a…

Kessil A350 review, just about the best stand alone LED spotlight for aquarium corals

By almost any metric, the Kessil A350 and A350w are some of the best and most feature rich LED spotlights ever made for growing corals in aquariums. Following the widespread success of the Kessil A150w LED spotlights, the A350 and…

Yellow polyp orange cap – who knew that montipora came in this color?

We recently spotted an orange capricornis with yellow-green polyps at World Wide Corals which totally took us by surprise. As long as the aquarium hobby’s been keeping and growing plating Montipora corals and as many colored-polyp colonies that have been maricultured…

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MASNA wants YOU to host MACNA 2014

MACNA can be considered one of the top hobby shows in North America where hobbyists get a chance to get together in a different city to hear great speakers, network with vendors and manufacturers, catch up with old friends and…

Innovative Marine SkimMate nano skimmer is as simple as needle wheel gets

The SkimMate protein skimmer from Innovative Marine, not to be confused with the Skimmate locker from Avast marine, is a little fractionator designed to fit in small all-in-on reef tanks. The SkimMate is a tiny one-cylinder tube of a protein skimmer…

Micro-Reefs bringing pico, temperate systems to an office cubicle near you

Micro-Reefs has some great pico aquarium kits for those of you looking for a well thought out kit to move beyond the betta bowl on your desk and even make the only small, complete coldwater system we know about. These…

You can add Skeletal Erosion Band to the list of known aquarium diseases

Ugh, as if we didn’t have enough coral diseases and parasites to worry about, now we can add Skeletal Erosion Band caused by the heterotricch ciliate Halofolliculina corallasia to the list. The tiny little creature is a cingle celled protozoan that…

Pomacentrus maafu is Tonga and Fiji’s newest species of damselfish

Pomacentrus maafu is a new species of damselfish which was described from almost 200 fish from Fiji and Tonga. Closely related to Pomacentrus moluccensis from the West Pacific Ocean, Pomacentrus maafu is almost identical in shape and merisitic counts, but it was differentiated…