New sea slug discovered off California coast

Sometimes the most exciting things are hiding right in front of you, just waiting for you to see. Marine biologist Jeff Goddard knows this quite well after he discovered a new species of nudibranch in a California tide pool in…

Flamboyant Cuttlefish, Metasepia pfefferi, mating on Video

[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjLapY8mPI4[/youtube] Metasepia pfefferi is an amazing species of flamboyant cuttlefish and I have recently had the opportunity to obtain multiple specimens of this species for the first time in 8 years. These flamboyant cuttlefish wasted little time getting on…

Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide in the aquarium: Algae Removal

I would like to introduce a tool that I have found extremely useful in my years of aquaculturing coral. Hydrogen peroxide has been a time saver, and a life saver (as well as harbinger of near total death and destruction). For…

Octopus rubescens and Low Tides are awesome

If you live near the coast of any ocean, you probably know that tide pooling is great fun. Whats even more fun, is waiting until there is a very low tide, and then going to your local marine protected area…

NanoScope from DD Aquariums Solutions

The new NanoScope from DD aquarium is a scope with a lens that allows you to peak inside your saltwater aquarium world. While most of us can only see the outside of our tanks, the NanoScope seeks to change all…

Coral Rx is the Joe’s Juice of coral dips, especially for removing flatworms

Coral Rx is a coral dip which we personally started testing out well over two years ago; we got our first (free) samples way back at the Pittsburgh MACNA. We first wrote about Coral Rx and it’s swanky label back…