NeoMarine salt from Brightwell Aquatics seen in the wild

While Seachem is busy readying their new Salinity salt, Brightwell Aquatics seems to be finished with their final recipe of their NeoMarine salt. A local fish store in Florida, named Studio Aquatics has received the “first batch” of the new…

New form of OLED lighting very closely approximates the sun

A new form of OLED (organic light emitting diode) has us salivating as much as the Luxim LIFI plasma arc lighting. We’ll let you read the entire post which we have reproduced with permission but when and if this technology…

Hagen’s New Fluval Frontier series tank and stand exudes modern styling

Industry stallwart Hagen has been rather quiet the last couple of years but with the release of the Fluval Edge, the Fluval G and now the Fluval Pioneer, the company is making a huge comeback with a strong emphasis on…

Reef Central is not dead afterall!

Well it seems like some ill-meaning pranksters have been commenting on behalf of RC mods and admins and direct communication with beerguy has refuted the comments that were made and had this to say instead: Someone who doesn’t want us…

Tigerpyge Hybrid Angelfish caught on HD video

Please direct uour attention to the high definition video above of the fantabulous lemonpeel x eibli hybrid pictured above who is affectionately called the Tigerpyge. The High Definition footage will fill  the lingering emptyness in your soul which yearns to…

Reef Central is (maybe) down offline Indefinitely, database destroyed UPDATE: It’s not going anywhere

We reported earlier yesterday that Reef Central was down and today it looks like our worst fears have been confirmed. Reef Central is down and from the looks of things, it isn’t coming back. Apparently the database backup files that…

Seachem’s Salinity salt from Aqua Vitro gets its photo taken

The uber secret Salinity salt that Seachem has been working on for some time now is starting to get more widespread. We have previous workups of the salt bucket of choice for illustration purposes only but this is the first…

Alpha 170 Cone skimmers have arrived at retailers

We received word that the Alpha 170 cone skimmers known as Kone have begun arriving to retailers and have begun shipping. One of the first retailers to get their mits on these new guys is Premium Aquatics. In case you’ve…

Reef Central has been completely offline for over 6 hours and counting

Reef Central has been completely offline for quite some time today. It seems the site was fine around 7am CST today but a little after that time the site has been completely offline. So far we are going on the…

Gold Crown Butterflyfish variant shows up in Japan

Following up on the story we posted several days ago regarding the gold crown butterflyfish, Chaetodon (Roaps) flavocoronatus,  as we expected at least one of these specimens has shown up for sale in Japan. However, in contrast to the nearly…