From the archives: What interested you the most in 2015?

This past year we continued to see strong and steady growth in visitors to the website and thank each and every one of you for coming back time and time again. We decided to drill down into our website traffic…

NanoBox Reef LED lights are all grown up in this new video

We have been unabashed fanboys of NanoBox Reef LED lights since their very first model of LED aquarium fixture. With so many manufacturers offering well-polished and highly refined mass-produced fixtures, we’ve often been asked what is it about NanoBox Reef’s…

Navigating MACNA – Tips & Tricks

September brings MACNA 2015 to Washington D.C. along with a couple of thousand of your reefing friends, speakers from all corners of the globe and exhibitors with cool new products.  It’s three fun filled days and nights of non-stop reef keeping…

New Fusion Lagoons tanks in two sizes from Innovative Marine

The Fusion Lagoons is a new line of all in one aquariums from the prolific glass box builders at Innovative Marine. The Fusion Lagoons join the Nuvo Shallow Reef, Fusion Nano, Fusion Nuvo line of all in one aquariums that are…

MASNA Summer Membership Drive Continues – Cool MACNA Prize Announced

The Summer membership drive for the Marine Aquarium Societies of North America (MASNA) continues through the end of August.  New and renewing members will be entered into a drawing for an AquaFX Glacial 100 RODI system.  In addition to supporting MASNA and its…

The Envelope is a touching movie about the passion for reef aquariums

“The Envelope” is a new video released by Kessil to promote their forthcoming new Kessil A700 LED fixture, but really it’s so much more than a promotional video. With only a tiny bit of product placement throughout the seven minute…

ReefBrite LED striplights look great on an Acrylic mounting arm

As LED manufacturers are slowing down the iteration of their LED light fixtures’ form factor, other companies are stepping in to add a little spice to the new status quo. We’ve seen third party acrylic mounting solutions from Aquarium Specialty,…

SEA Aquarium has the most gigantic ball of spinning Chaetomorpha algae

It’s no secret that I am personally not a fan of the kitchen sink approach to creating a “refugium” with all the sands and cruddy algaes that usually build up there. I and we, are very much in favor of using…

The AI Prime makes one awesome accent LED light

When most people see a teeny tiny LED light, their first thought is probably of nano reef aquarium applications. Naturally, a physically small light is ideally suited for smaller tanks, but we also see diminutive LED light engines like the…

The super high end tank build of Reef 924, part 2

Yesterday we had the sincere pleasure of introducing an aquarium, code named “Reef 924”, which has been endowed with a balnk check for a budget, and the careful design and installation experience of Samuel Slobusky of Wet Work Reefs. We…