Waterproof Capture case for iPod nano enables underwater video recording

The waterproof Capture case for the Apple iPod Nano from H2O audio not only keeps your tunes dry. With the recently added video recording functionality of the 5th generation iPod Nano, with this case your 5G iPod Nano can now…

Aquascaping techniques, tips and thoughts

As a reef geek who is more than just casually interested in creating great looking aquariums, I’ve made it my personal mission over the past few years to rid the reef aquarium world of dull and mediocre aquascaping. To this…

Natural Nitrate Reducer from Instant Ocean aims to deliver fluid form of Solid Vodka Dosing via Suspended Biodegradable Polymers

Natural Nitrate Reducer from Instant Ocean is one of the company’s latest products that claims to use “Suspended Biodegradable Polymers” which sounds very much to us like fluid Solid Vodka Dosing. Having another large company hitting the market with a…

How a small warming can completely change an ecosystem

Yesterday Guin and I went snowboarding in Vail, Colorado. We took highway I-70 west from Golden towards all the slopes and through the heart of the Colorado Rockies. I’ve been making this trip countless times throughout the years but more…

Get your Solid Vodka Dosing on, win a free bag o’ Biopellets

Now that the Biopellets have become widely available in the US, the challenge is on to see what this whole Solid Vodka Dosing thing is all about. Reef Builders is rolling out it’s own cross country evaluation of Biopellets that…

Saltwater Connection has two new cone skimmers coming SWC120, SWC160

The Saltwater Connection, makers of fine inexpensive protein skimmers have new models in the works. Both of these new models are cone skimmers as is the current rage within the industry. The first model SWC160 Cone has a 9″ x…

Facing pipeline, Saudi oil company moves coral reef

A Saudi Arabian oil company recently completed a relocation of a small coral reef found to be in harms way of a planned pipeline in the Arabian Gulf. Aramco, the Saudi state owned oil company, discovered the small reef in…

Tek Light Elite T5 HO Air-Cooled Fluorescent Fixture gets more detailed

That new Elite T5 Tek fixture by Sunlight Supply we showed you earlier is progressing slowly. We received new details about the unit and contrary to what mis-information is being published the fan does not draw air in the ends…

Digital Aquatics MyReef software delayed until April 2010

Digital Aquatics hot software called myReef is so hot that quite a few of customers have been waiting for it for a very long time. Originally the myReef software was slated to be out before the end of 2009. Not…

Symphyllia wilsoni is an amazing and rare coral from Australia

Symphyllia wilsoni is one of the rarest coral in the aquarium trade which has only become available with the imports from Australia. Although the first, and still most, of the coral imports from Oz come from Eastern Australia, Symphyllia wilsoni…