The Slim Skim is an interesting new internal protein skimmer that is constructed with an extremely accessible design. Unlike most protein skimmers on the market which are made from tubes or cones, the Hydor Slim Skim is made from a…
Hydro Wizard from Panta Rhei is a carbon fiber reinforced water jet
The Panta Rhei Hydro Wizard is a new flow device which is more of a stealth water jet than an average propeller water pump. The Hydro Wizard is the first carbon fiber reinforced pump we’ve heard of for the aquarium…
New ProFilux Touch interface for ProFilux Controllers
The new GHL Profilux touch, a new device for the ProFilux line of aquarium controllers. The new touch control is called the Profilux Touch, but it started as the Profilux view, apparently users requested that there be some sort of…
Io LED contest finalists, help us pick the picture of the healthiest coral or fish
It was very tough but we’ve finally arrived at narrowing down the submissions for the Io LED pendant photo contest down to ten finalists. It wasn’t easy as there were a lot of great entries to this challenging photo contest…
Batch of scaly Derasa clams spotted, what does it mean?
The smooth shell giant clam, Tridacna derasa, is readily identified by the smooth shells with a complete lack of scutes (outward projecting scales). Itty bitty Derasa clams are so smooth they look like litte finger nails. Right? Well apparently at…
Sanyo VPC-CA102YL waterproof HD camcorder, getting up close and personal in your reef
Waterproof cameras aren’t anything new but with the amount of HD punch packing in smaller forms cameras like the new Sanyo VPC-CA102YL waterproof camcorder are bringing an affordable, handheld HD camera giving you the ability to get right inside your…
Genicanthus takeuchi hybrid from Ogasawara could have a little semifasciatus angelfish in it
Genicanthus angelfish hybrids are enough, to discover one which is a mix of G. takeuchi is truly a once in a lifetime find. We’d be happy to just see a full blooded alive in our life time, in the U.S.…
Geo Sulfur Nitrate Reactor coming soon to Premium Aquatics
The Geo Sulphur Nitrate reactor takes Geo’s best Calcium Reactor designs and melds them into one solid device which is fine tuned for growing bacteria on sulfur beads. Geo’s nitrate reactor is driven by a maxiJet 600 with a flowrate…
Visit to Austria’s Mega Zoo and their top notch reef keeping department.
The following is a guest contribution from Karl Vankersschaever, owner of Mare Nostrum and a passionate European reef aquarium hobbyist. Summer is usually the time to visit some old friends and to make some new friends. So we went for…
Asian Reef Video Blitz: RGBY LED reef, wild caught marines with no tails, Japanese maiden goby and a nice stand of smooth skin acros
[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwbQsoOGgLI[/youtube] Reef Videos are in such abundance on the net these days that we struggle to keep with posting them one at a time. Currently we’ve been building up a nice collection of great reef videos from Japan,…
