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July 10th– July 16th The beauty of unintended good planning 2nd annual Caribbean reef aquarium conference goes down in Puerto Rico First crop of Lightning Maroon clownfish offspring get a closer inspection…

Juvenile Neptune Grouper shows up in Singapore, retailing for a hefty price

Cephalopholis igarashiensis, more commonly known as the Neptune Grouper, is a stunning and highly prized deepwater fish that is very rarely almost never encountered in the trade. There are few groupers that can rival the rarity and coloration of this…

Aquarium Fish International shutting down, closing its pages

Aquarium Fish International, formerly known as Aquarium Fish Magazine or AFM for short is slated to run its last issue of what was once the leading publication on all things aquarium in the United States. As a youngun’ just getting his…

Panda Banggai cardinalfish revealed in first ever video appearance

The Panda Banggai cardinalfish is the first domestically produced captive strain of the iconic reef aquarium fish, Pterapogon kauderni. We got our first look at the half-black Panda Banggai at the Tropical Marine Centre booth at InterZoo 2012 where TMC…

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Repashy Gel Foods take freshwater by storm…but there’s more

Repashy Gel Foods have a reputation among reptile enthusiasts, and the newer line of Repashy Superfoods for tropical fish have really caught the attention of freshwater fish enthusiasts for their value and for their ability to serve as a day…

The beauty of unintended good planning

This summer has been unusually warm across the US, brutally hot, actually. My area of the Southeast was recently hit with a triple digit heat wave. Around the same time, my air conditioner decided to break. Needless to say, my…

Deltec MCX300 protein skimmer introduces novel inside out waste cup design

The Detlec MCX300 protein skimmer has a tiny footprint to run inside small sumps, and an entry level price point so it can stay inside modest budgets. For just 119€ ($145) the Deltec MCX300 comes with an MCE 300 needle…

2nd annual Caribbean reef aquarium conference goes down in Puerto Rico

Of all the places that we hold conferences around the United States, none of the east coast, west coast or midwest destinations have any kind of indigenous tropical corals – except for Florida most of U.S. is grassland, desert, marshes,…

Reef Eden becomes UK distributor for Giesemann LEDs, Aquariums and Furniture

Simon Garratt has been busy lately and the latest news is Reef Eden International is now the UK distributor for Giesemann LEDs, aquariums and aquarium furniture in the UK. The news is welcoming to the UK reefing community having an…

Is it an egg? Is it an anemone? No, it’s a Discosoma sanctithomae mushroom anemone

Discosoma sanctithomae are probably my favorite of all the of unique corals that come out of the Caribbean. They occur in an amazing array of colors and have such interesting bubbly tentacles. Some Discosoma sanctithomae mushrooms even have sharp, spikey…