Fluval G3 canister gets reviewed on camera by Practical Fishkeeping

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFiivFUN1kc[/youtube] The Fluval G3 is one of Hagen’s latest and greatest flagship canister filters. A canister filter is not the first or the fifth thing we think of when we’re thinking of setting up a marine or reef…

True personifer angelfish video shows off that expensive tail stripe

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCxr8G0Dvtc[/youtube] The true personifer angelfish, Chaetodontoplus personifer, is a relatively new species of angelfish from Western Australia which was split off from its sister species on the Eastern coast of Australia, Chaetodontoplus meridithi. We love personifer angelfish, be…

Hands-on with the Aiptasia Zapper; extermination has never been so gratifying

The Aiptasia Zapper is ghetto, but it remains to be seen if it is also fabulous. Sometimes electricity can melt your sump, but it is now being harnessed by the Aiptasia Zapper to discombobulate unwanted cnidarians. At two feet the…

Two Little Fishies ReVive Coral Cleaner gets concentratated

Two Little Fishies ReVive Coral Cleaner is a great choice for cleaning and dipping your coral and now its available in a more concentrated form. The Two Little Fishies ReVive Coral Cleaner Concentrate is industrial strength giving you more punch in the…

Sometimes aquarium heaters fail . . .

. . . and sometimes they fail catastrophically. We’d like to point out that the Ebo Jager in this destroyed sump was not the cause of this fire.

DFWMAS Next Wave & Coral Farmers Market this Saturday in Texas

The Dallas/Fort Worth Marine Aquariums Society (DFWMAS) added a new twist for its annual Next Wave event, teaming up with Steve Tyree and The Coral Farmers Market Coral Show for this year’s event.  Tickets for the event are limited and a few…

JNS BioPellet Reactors add new “twist” to fluidized reactors

[youtube width=”640″ height=”510″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ulsDpAzeW8[/youtube] The new JNS BioPellet Reactors are using an innovative vortex to keep biopellets in suspension inside the reaction chamber to ensure an even flow of water around the pellets to maximize their potential. The spinning vortex helps…

Hybrid clarion x passer, cyclops lemonpeel and aberrant bicolor angelfish

In the past week a slew of unusual angelfish were collected all around the world. The hybrid passer, cyclops lemonpeel and aberrant bicolor angelfishes were all but eclipsed by the bombshell news of the sensational blackspot pygmy angelfish, Centropyge nigriocella.…

World’s smallest aquarium is an exercise in miniaturization

The world’s smallest aquarium has no filter, no heater and definitely no vortechs, but it does have tiny fish and pieces of algae shaped into larger looking plants. At just over an inch/3cm long and holding just 10 ml of…

Colangia, Culicia and Astrangia are the latest new Azoox corals to come from West Africa

Colangia, Culicia and Astrangia are not exactly the corals you’d think of when someone mentions azoox corals. Like Arcohelia before them, the latest crop of Azoox corals from West Africa like the Red Colangia and yellow-orange Culicia will hopefully foster…