Fascinating footage of fluorescent corals under confocal microscope will leave you mesmerized

Chances are you are spending your Easter Sunday morning contemplating why it is still snowing outside, and how you are going to find all those eggs in a half a foot of snow. What’s a better way to escape the…

Maxspect Razor clone ‘Tesla LED’ spotted in the wild

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and with this LED fixture we spotted — the Maxspect Razor definitely should be flattered. We recently heard about this similar-looking fixture from Clovers LED, an equipment wholesaler in Asia, that bears an uncanny resemblance to the Razor.…

Sustainable Aquatics cultured corals coming soon

With a firm mind share of the captive bred aquarium fish market Sustainable Aquatics is now turning its attention to providing cultured corals. For the past couple of weeks Sustainable Aquatics has been teasing a variety of medium sized frags…

Jacob Dixon’s Puget Sound biotope is a cool as it is awesome

Cold Water Reefs are something we really, can’t get, enough of, and Jacob Dixon’s Puget Sound biotope reminds us exactly why. The beauty of this reef might be subtle, with mostly brownish/beige tints dominating the majority of the aquarium, but…

StarkLED Flare strips are modular and impressive build quality

The StarkLED Flare strip lights are some really cool fixtures we first highlighted because of their great modular appeal, but it turns out however these fixtures have another major thing going for them: some serious building quality. Constructed out of…

Hydor’s Professional External Filter is a whole new class of canisters

The Professional External Filter series from Hydor is a class of next generation canister filters. The rectangular footprint of the Professional External Filter and tight fitting baskets is a hallmark of Japanese style canister filters on which they are based.…

Maxspect G2 exchange program lets you turn in your old G2 for a new Razor

The Maxspect G2 LED Exchange Program is a unique program to get U.S. owners of the older Maxspect G2 LED fixtures upgraded to the new Maxspect Razor. As Maxspect starts the plan to sunset the older G2, the company is giving…

Animated GIFs of aquariums and fish from around the web

Recently, Google enabled a feature which allows image searches to be filtered based on type including animated GIFs. Naturally we set off to see what kind of cool moving GIFs existed to show cool scenes of aquariums, fish and related…

Mitras Simu LED is all about delivering aquarium lighting effects

The GHL Mitras Simu LED stick is a thoughtfully named LED lighting products which is headed in a clear direction. Rather than trying to produce an LED fixture like the Mitras that does it all, GHL realizes that LEDs are…

Using measuring bottles to streamline frequent manual dosing

I have over ten tanks, mostly saltwater, reef and coral focused. You’d think that this type of setup would benefit from lots of automatic dosing I like to be more intimate with my aquarium’s water chemistry so besides automated top…