Amazing Aquariums and Reefs We’ve been bouncing the greater Southern California reefing region for an extended weekend now and we’ve already had the good fortune to stop by two of the area’s finest reef stores, AquaSD and Amazing Aquariums &…
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Pacific Sun Io LED Pendant Photo Contest: show us your best coral or fish to win an awesome LED reef light
If you’ve been looking for reasons to be inspired with your reef aquarium this summer, how about 27 of them? 27 of Cree’s top of the line, high powered XP series LEDs all hanging out in one of the most…
Rio Coral Feeders enable you to get all medieval on target feeding your corals
Whether you are into chalices, scolies, acans or some other group of ravenous heterotrophic large polyp stony coral, either way by now you should have learned that your fleshy stoneys really love to be target fed with little bits of…
Australomussa rowleyensis colonies from Timor Indonesia put this coral on the map
Australomussa rowleyensis is not quite a chalice coral, not quite an LPS and although it once was just an unusual curiosity that was sometime spotted in shipments from Indo and Australia, this amazing crop of Australomussa from Timor Indonesia is…
Boost your color with green light, an additional source of fluorescence excitation
For years and years we’ve seen a hobby dominated by white lights, with blue actinics. Be it halide, pc, vho, led, or anything else; the usage of a bright white light with the enhancement of blue light (about 420 to…
Frag swaps, regional club events a great way to bring reefers together
Frag swaps and other regional reef club events are a great way to bring together local reefers from a variety of clubs all in the name of sharing the passion for our incredible hobby. This weekend, the Bay Area Reefers…
Have you tried a small Australian elegance coral lately?
Elegance coral, Catalaphyllia jardinei, is one of the all-time most iconic coral from the early days of reefing. Once regarded as a bulletproof beginner’s coral, for the better part of the last ten years Indonesian-sourced elegance corals have been all…
Comparing the NanoCustoms and LeDio LED Spotlights over a real nano reef
If a picture is worth a thousand words then the animation above is a 5000 word thesis on the color and spread of a variety of LED spotlights from NanoCustoms and Volx Japan. Over the weekend Taka and I got…
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…
“True” Australian Acropora echinata being imported in reasonable numbers, fair prices
Australian Acropora echinata has to be one of the most iconic Acro and SPS corals of all time. Every die hard small polyp stony coral junky at one time or another has caught the site of one of these corals…
