Hobbyist documents first spawning of Black Margin Dottyback, Pseudochromis tapeinosoma

The hobbyist marine fish breeding world just took another step forward today.   We may be well on our way towards adding another new species to our captive bred list – we have a report of what appears to be…

Riusuke Fukahori paints amazing three-dimensional fish paintings

If you think that the above picture is one of actual fish you’d be wrong, rather than water the container is filled with resin and rather than being filled with actual fish these fish are painted. Riusuke Fukahori, a Japanese artist, paints these…

2011 Aquarium LED lighting showdown — Round 2 of the Reader’s Choice ready for votes!

Put round one in the books and get your voting fingers ready for the second round of the 2011 Aquarium LED showdown. As we mentioned before, we picked our 32 top stories on new aquarium LED lighting that appeared in…

2011 Aquarium LED lighting showdown — we’ll let you decide

  Looking back at our posts in 2011 we can definitely see the effect of LED lighting in the aquarium market, proving to be one of the hottest topics we covered this past year. With so many new products hitting…

Part 2 of a 2011 Marine Breeder’s Year In Review

The first installment of our 2011 Marine Breeder’s Year in Review was probably more breeding news than you thought could have happened in a single year.  Suprisingly invertebrates, new breeding products, and clownfish releases like the one pictured above only…

France AquaStudio is the latest Elos concept retail store to be revealed

Elos, the boutique aquarium manufacturer based out of Italy announced plans for their new Elos AquaStudio stores across the globe. Specifically, stores in France, Switzerland, Singapore and New York were all named to open in 2012, which happens to be…

First unboxing of the Ecoxotic Panorama Pro LED Fixture

With Ecoxotic releasing their new Panorama Pro Fixture to hobbyists, it got me thinking – this seems like as good of time as any to set up a frag tank. Due to the high cost of electricity here in California,…

Elos Aquastudio in Singapore gets an exclusive first look

The Elos Aquastudio setting up shop in Singapore is not even open for business yet we’ve finagled a sneak peek at one of the first of the Elos Aquastudio concept stores. In contrast to the European Elos Aquastudios, we expect…

TMC MicroHabitat 30 hits the nano aquarium market

Following up on the success of the smaller versions, TMC is getting the new AquaHabitats MicroHabitat 30 out to market just in time for the holidays. We picked up the news from Acuaristica showing the new 30 liter (around 7.93…

The Cree XT-E Royal Blue LED Explained

You may have begun to notice Cree XT-E blue LEDs being included on some newer aquariums lights and unlike previous advancements, this generation of LEDs is designed for more than simple brightness and efficiency gains.  The Cree XT-E royal blue…