We never thought we’d see that day that our YouTube channel would feature a how-to about adding a gold crown butterflyfish to a display tank that is already home to a large mature adult Tinker’s butterflyfish but here we are.…
Pachyseris speciosa can Grow Tubular Branches Too
When we stumbled across some huge colonies of Echinopora ashmorensis growing like a field of tubes in New Caledonia, we had no inkling that we could encounter this morphology again in a different species of stony coral. Unlike the Echinopora and…
Self Cleaning Protein Skimmer 150 Eliminates Cleaning with Fleece
The self-cleaning protein skimmer 150 is a newfangled foam fractionator from Smarter Reefs which takes a very different approach to automatic neck cleaning. The company is better known for their Frozen Fish Food feeding system so the new protein skimmer…
SeaTak is a Radical New Kind of Underwater Adhesive
SeaTak is a totally new kind of adhesive and is the first substance of its kind that uses biomimicry to adhere and join different materials underwater. For hundreds of years people have wondered and been impressed by the ability of…
Many Small Pectinia Kinda Look Like Dinosaurs
It always amazes us which corals are the hot new thing in the reef aquarium hobby and one group that really comes and goes in terms of popularity are the cup shaped Pectinia. It seems that whether they come from Australia…
Two Different Half Black Surgeonfish Collected an Ocean Apart
In the early days of freshwater ornamental fish breeding, one of the first mutations that consistently appeared in high profile species like angelfish and discus was a half black trait that originated at the tail. It seems like this mutation…
Signature Frags is a Unique British Coral Boutique
British reefkeepers haven’t had a lot to get excited about lately. An exponential rise in the cost of electricity had loomed over many hobbyists to the point of shutting their tanks down, with few people shopping for new corals and…
Seneye and ITC Reefculture make CoralVue their new home in America
CoralVue is the new distributor of Seneye and ITC Reefculture for the United States, Mexico, and South America. Seneye is best known for its aquatic devices that monitor ammonia, pH, and other vital water parameters, and ITC Reefculture manufacturers the…
Daytime Onex brings LED versatility to closed aquariums
German lighting brand Daytime LED has released a versatile LED lighting system that is aimed primarily at aquariums with closed hoods. Named Onex, it consists of a waterproof aluminum LED light bar which is available in lengths from 20-200cm/8-78″. They…
Elegance coral bred for the first time in captivity
The Coral Spawning Lab has successfully spawned and raised the Elegance Coral, Catalaphyllia jardinei, for the first time in captivity. The corals spawned in October 2021 at the UK-based lab and approximately 100 juveniles have survived this far, to 11…
