It’s not a stretch to say that the coral aquarium hobby is a fairly mature past time with more than a few decades of experience and refinement. After more than twenty years of intensive culture we have access to a…
Cantharellus is an Actually RARE Stony Coral
We’ve been window shopping the supply of corals for sale online for the past few weeks just to take stock of what most vendors are selling and we’ve come away with a couple thoughts. First of all, we understand the…
We Got a Lot Off Our Chest with ReefBum [Video]
It’s been a long time since we’ve been able to casually get together with fellow reefers and gab about all things reef aquariums. We’ve been trying to make up for this dearth of communing with our fellow reef builders as…
New Spectrogreen ICP Machines Will be Faster and More Sensitive Than Ever Before
ICP water testing has become the cutting edge for water quality analysis technology in the environmental sciences and more recently in the reef aquarium world. The leader in ICP-OES water testing is a company called Spectra and they have a…
ATB Quietly Updates Their Cone Skimmer with New Controllable Pumps
Aquarium Technik Burian, better known as ATB, is a company that made its mark on the aquarium world by introducing protein skimmers with a cone shaped body. This conical shape used to be a differentiating feature of ATB skimmers but…
Visiting the WWC Boutique Reef Aquarium Shop [Video]
There’s never been a harder time to travel the country and visit or discover new reef aquarium stores. The pandemic lockdown might be rolling over to its second year but we’ve got just the antidote for the stay at home…
PASCO Wireless pH Sensor Can Log for up to 90 Days
Reef Aquarists are rapidly learning the paramount importance of pH in our mineral rich reef aquariums because it drives the entire process of calcification in stony corals and all calcifying invertebrates. There are many different options for measuring pH in the…
DC Runner X3 Series Adds Wireless App Control to Aqua Medic Pumps
The DC Runner X3 is the latest refresh to AquaMedic’s line of controllable water pumps that brings with it wireless control and programming. This is one of the biggest new features to be introduced to the Aqua Medic DC Runner…
There’s a Scolymia Party in the Australian Reef Wall Display [Video]
Australian Scolies, officially known as Homophyllia bowerbanki, are an Australian endemic coral that demonstrates some of the wildest colors of almost any coral species. As you may have guessed by now, the flat vertical aquascape in the Australian reef display…
Picasso Sailfin Tang is a Desjardini, not a Veliferum!
The Picasso Sailfin Tang is the first of its kind, an aberrant Red Sea Sailfin Tang, that has just made its way to America. Virtually all of the aberrant Zebrasoma ‘Koi’, ‘Piebald’ and ‘Tricolor’ tangs have all been scopas tangs, Z. scopas,…
