Cold water marine aquariums are few and far between, and cold water reef tanks are an even rarer breed. While most reefers spend their efforts running tropical reef tanks with warm water and high powered lights, after building a few…
CPR Aquatic releasing First A.I.D. this week
[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIMyn6sFD1o[/youtube] CPR Aquatic has begun shipping its multipurpose CPR Aquatic First A.I.D. system that we brought you earlier this year in prototype form. The acronym means Acclimation, Isolation, and Dosing but the handy device can do all this…
Hobbyist to the stars highlighted on NPR
Justin Muir, who owns and runs City Aquarium in Brooklyn, N.Y., has a unique business creating top-notch visual aquariums for clients around the New York City area. With celebrity, professional athlete and Wall Street moguls as clients, Muir’s clients often…
Aqua Vision Aquatics brand lands on Marine Depot this week
Aqua Vision Aquatics are a new line of aquarium additive and medication products that appeared on Marine Depot this last week. With products to take care of aiptasia to cyanobacteria to excessive phosphates and plenty in between, the Aqua Vision…
Coral larvae know the meaning of stoplight colors, backwards
It is common knowledge in the coral reef aquarium world that corals fluoresce in a multitude of colors, but coral larvae fluoresce as well. Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) is one of the most common fluorescent pigments found in the natural…
Prodac fish food now with biodegradable containers
Prodac is a maker of fish and turtle foods from Italy whose foods comes in a plastic lidded container the same as many others. However unlike the majority of the plastic found in our daily lives, Prodac has just announced…
Algae Control Test kit from Red Sea gets unboxed and tried out
The Algae Control Test Kit from Red Sea is a phosphate and a nitrate test kit. If the Algae Control test was just a combination pack, we wouldn’t have much left to say about it but this new product from…
Stubby-fin Fairy Wrasse in Alor Indonesia is probably a new species
There is a distinctive and unusual looking fairy wrasse lurking around Alor in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. The unusual wrasse is most likely an undescribed species of Cirrhilabrus which has a dorsal fin that is unlike any other…
Rising ocean temperatures is making some coral populations move to cooler reefs
In addition to coral bleaching events, increases in ocean temperatures are having another affect on reef building corals, with populations of some species migrating away from the equator. A new study found corals around Japan shifting north to waters thought…
Breeding Albino Ocellaris will get you thrown in jail in South Africa
According to a thread on MarineAquariumSA, Marcel Triessl has been thrown in Jail for trying to breed Albino Ocellaris Clownfish. Marcel has been dealing with the authorities on obtaining the permits needed to breed marine organisms for several months now.…
