When we are asked which anemone we recommend for reef aquaria the answer is simple – 100% The Red Bubble Tip Anemone. We’ve worked in many fish stores and when people keep marine fish for the first time they all…
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Aqua Medic’s Micro Heater is the best small heater we’ve seen
Small tanks need a small heater, and we’re usually left to choose from a small, 25-watt glass heater or a 10-watt plastic, preset one. But Aqua Medic’s new Micro Heater is tiny and adjustable, and it comes with a remote…
Maxspect Gyre 300 Cloud Edition features multi directional flow
Maxspect has once again knocked it out of the park with news of their latest generation flagship wavemaker, the Gyre 300 Cloud Edition. As the name suggests, Cloud Edition will allow for control from anywhere in the world via the…
Observations on a “new” soft coral in the hobby, Paraminabea rubeusa, by Julian Sprung
After so many years enjoying and looking forward to the coral feature articles that Jake Adams wrote and Vincent Chalias still writes for Reef Builders, I came across a coral that inspired me to want to compose a gushing, over…
The New Octocorallia: Malacalcyonacea Part 2
In our previous installment of this series, we met with a diverse array of Soft Corals and Gorgonians, including most of the species familiar to aquarists. Amongst these were a hodgepodge of ex-Scleraxonia, ex-Stolonifera, and ex-Alcyonacea genera, now all lumped…
The New Octocorallia: Malacalcyonacea Part 1
In our previous review of octocoral classification, we saw that anywhere from 3–8 orders have traditionally been used to organize this group’s bewildering biodiversity, based on morphological assumptions of increasing complexity within the evolutionary history of these corals. It was…
Bubble Magus C3.5 Protein Skimmer: The 10-year review
We were maintaining our reef tank on the weekend when we realized that one of the unsung heroes of reefing was sitting there in our sump, right before our eyes. Furthermore, it’s been running trouble-free for 10 years. Here’s why…
The New Octocorallia: A Brief Review of Taxonomic Chaos
Soft Corals, Gorgonians, and Sea Pens comprise the Octocorallia, a major branch in the coral tree of life whose 3000+ species come in nearly every shape imaginable. Not surprisingly, this biodiversity has confounded taxonomists for centuries, resulting in no shortage…
Two popular corals classified “extreme” in Queensland Fishery risk assessment
Homophyllia cf. australis and Micromussa lordhowensis have been given an extreme risk rating by the Queensland Coral Fishery Ecological Risk Assessment, 2022. In ongoing reforms to the management of the fishery, a harvest strategy has now been implemented based on…
Aperture now exclusive US distribution partner for Focustronic
Aperture Pet & Life is now the exclusive US and Canadian distribution partner for Focustronic. This follows from a string of new American distribution partnerships that include Nyos, Maxspect, and Aquaforest, as well as their own brands BRS, EcoTech, AI,…
