[youtube width=”670″ height=”425″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H8jd_4NKL8[/youtube] Wrought Iron butterflyfish are unique among the Chaetodon for their black coloration, strong schooling behavior but most of all they just look totally freakin cool. Furthermore, their subtropical distribution in the waters around Japan means that these…
Sky Blue and Red Sun T5 lamps brings the UVL color palette up to eight
The Sky Blue and Red Sun T5 lamps from UVL are the newest colors to be added to the palette of the veteran fluorescent lamp manufacturer. The high output T5 lamp is still the dominant lighting form factor of choice…
Marine Alkalinity pre-order for Hanna Checkers
Hanna Instruments, the company responsible for the popular line of Hanna Checkers has just released their Marine Alkalinity in the wild for pre-orders. This means of course that for those of you testing Alkalinity the old fashioned way you will…
Acropora spathulata is the “thick milli Acro” endemic to Australia
Acropora millepora is one of the most iconic and recognizable SPS corals on the reef and in the aquarium trade. However, within shipments of Australian Acro Millis we’ve secretly been receiving a lurker species endemic to Australian reefs, Acropora spathulata.…
Salinity shortstack bucket coming Winter 2010 from Seachem
The Seachem Salinity shortstack is a great option for those of you not needing a huge supply of salt. The diminutive bucket still gives you a lot of spread making up around 120 gallons of water at a salinity of 35…
The Coral Reef Aquarium by Tony Vargas is the next great book of reefing
Our good friend Tony “Tuba Taha” Vargas is putting the finishing touches on his new book The Coral Reef Aquarium which will focus on start to finish of how to set up a slammin reef tank. Coral and Fish identification…
Vitrea nano desktop reef sports a sweet overhanging LED light design
The Vitrea desktop nano aquarium is a sexy box of reefing that Vitrea USA showed off for the first time in the US at last week’s MACNA. The Vitrea nano comes as a standard glass cube or another version has…
PE Mysis available in blister cube 4oz packs
As if having mysis shrimp available with Reef Nutrition’s goodness formula via Mysis Feast was good enough already, Piscine Energetics has released their popular mysis shrimp in blister pack form. This is the same freshwater mysis that you’ve bought before,…
Purely H2O combines RO/DI flow restrictor and flush valve into one small, ingenious product
Every so often you come across a simple, yet ingenious product that makes the reef geek inside you just smile and glow and the nifty combination RO/DI flow restrictor and flush valve by Purely H2O is just genius. Available in…
