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AquaUno A1 BactoComplex brings enzymatic bacteria culture to Elos PrimaIine

AquaUno A1 BactoComplex from Elos is a new additive of bacteria and enzymes designed to jumpstart the biology of freshwater and marine aquariums. When added regularly, AquaUno BactoComplex helps to break down organic…

The Goldenback Triggerfish, Xanthichthys caeruleolineatus makes an appearance at SEA Atlanta

The Goldenback Triggerfish, Xanthichthys caeruleolineatus is about as rare as they comes when it comes to the family Balistidae. Jeremy Maneyapanda of Sea Atlanta is no stranger to uber rare fish so when we found out that he had the rarest…

Friday smorgasbord: coral-killing bacteria in action, underwater hotels, submarine bars and creative iPad app for kids

It has been a while since we’ve had a Friday smorgasbord post and we figured with summer coming up, what better way to kickoff the first Friday in June than with a fun mixed post. First off is a new…

Orphek Nilus multicolor LED light tested and reviewed over a mature Dutch reef tank

After about 20 years of reefkeeping, I can look back on many experiments with reef aquarium equipment but I left my fingers off one thing: the use of metal halides supplemented by blue fluorescent tubes. After seeing my reef tank…

More Lytro pictures of the Estherea Hotel reef aquarium by Jan Willem Esselaar

http://pictures.lytro.com/ReefBuilders/pictures/188433 There’s something about Lytro’s light field camera which is especially well suited to telling the story of an aquarium. Being able to focus in on different layers of the reef aquarium aquascape transports the viewer to the scene, and…

Spawning flower anemone lets its gametes go for the Coral Morphologic camera

If you thought flower anemones are cool, check out the appearance of this spawning flower anemone slowly ejecting a mass of white cloudy sperm into the aquarium water. This Epicystis crucifer was getting its sexual spawning on in the lab of…

Gnome Glass air skimmer advances with adjustable bracket and airstone position, still all glass

Air driven skimmers are gaining momentum in the nano and pico reef scene and Gnome Glass skimmers are some of the coolest, hand made glass designs you can buy. Recently Gnome Glass developed a method of making a bracket out…

AquaLighter 3 Marine LED lights and AquaLighter Device controller

We were impressed with the AquaLighter LED striplights and nano LED fixtures we saw at InterZoo 2012 and the Ukrainian company recently sent us a few more tidbits of information on the AquaLighter 3 Marine LED strip along with the company’s…

C-Blue’s LED striplights use unique triple-chip LEDs

There were so many different LED lights to see at InterZoo 2012 in Germany this year, it was hard to weed through all the noise to find the gems in the rough but along with that cool Aqualighter LED from…

AquaEl built a fabulous soccer (football) aquarium

AquaEl’s football aquarium stadium (soccer in the US) is almost perfect. The football aquarium has real hairgrass (Eleocharis sp.) grown into a field with neat white plastic grid delineating the boundaries of the playable area. Broad LED lights are mounted…