Costa Rica recently put together a massive new marine park that increases the area of protected waters surrounding Cocos Island five times what it was before. The Cocos Island area is home to some of the highest abundances of sharks…
New Glazer Pico Skimmer wants to play with your organics
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk09YRmTt1M[/youtube] The Pico skimmer by Glazer is a new product that will love sitting in your pico or nano aquarium. This guy can run in as little as 5” of water and has an intricate design made from…
ReefStock’s Raffle is so big we’re doing it three times
We’re just one week away from hosting the fourth ReefStock marine aquarium conference at the Denver Downtown Aquarium and the raffle has become so large, we’ve had to split it, twice! Due to the generosity of all the movers and…
Koralia Smartwave pump controller coming soon from Hydor
The Hydor Koralia SmartWave pump controller is a sharp looking device that just oozes with good aesthetic design. As the name implies, the SmartWave is designed to be a simple pump timer, alternating the current between two channels, or driving…
Orange spot filefish is not impossible yet still very challenging to keep in captivity
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHgBMRzsdks[/youtube] The orange-spot filefish, Oxymonacanthus longirostris, is a very enigmatic reef fish which has been the envy of fishkeepers for decades. Once thought to be ‘impossible’ to keep, the orange-spot filefish now joins the growing list of marine…
The Original Aiptasia Zapper is patent pending device
The Aiptasia zapper which we shared with our readers back in September last year has been copied it seems. The original inventor of the aiptasia zapper is Paul Baldassano. He did what any smart person would do, submitted a patent…
1000 gallon French reef tank has a lot of room to grow
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9dt5M17VqA[/youtube] This extra large reef tank belonging to Sébastien Ginguené is an excellent display of a balanced fish and coral reef aquarium. Sébastien who goes by the handle ‘SebNantes’ on the forums has a well documented history with…
H2Ocean Pro-Formula food from D-D Marine Solutions
H2Ocean Pro-Formula food from D-D Marine Solutions are a dry follow-up to the H2Ocean Reef Paste for fish and corals. The H2Ocean Pro foods include special dry and moist formulas for feeding a range of reef aquarium animals including SPS…
Unique LED Lighting fixtures ship with color controllability
Unique LED Lighting is creating some interesting LED aquarium lights right here in the United States and are including color control technology baked in. The surge of Chinese build LED devices have flooded the market and Unique LED is coming…
Plectranthias xanthomaculatus and P. elongatus described from deepwater trawls of Taiwan
Plectranthias xanthomaculatus and P. elongatus are two new species of deepwater reef fish which have just been described by Wu, Randall and Chen in the journal Zoological Studies. The two new species of Plectranthias were described based on single specimens…
