Friday Smorgasbord: Octopus Edition
How did we get to November so quick? Welcome to another edition of the Friday Smorgasbord where we explore the amazing octopus. We have plenty of fun videos to satisfy your cephalopod cravings. 1,000 …
Waterbox & AquaIllumination Announce New Plus Series Tank + Lighting Packages
Waterbox has made huge strides getting their premium aquarium solutions to aquarists around the world and today they are announcing an exciting new partnership. Waterbox Plus + is a new bundle that wi…
Xepta AutoBalance Automatically Measures AND Doses Ca, Mg & Alkalinity
Auto Balance is a new automatic water testing & dosing machine from a company called Xepta. We’ve never heard of Xepta before but they have a full range of additives with a strong emphasis o…
Starksia splendens, a New Blenny Species from the Cayman Islands
Blennies are a broad group of marine fish that occur on tropical and temperate oceans all over the world, and recently we’ve discovered one more. Starksia splendens is part of a group …
Nero 5 Pump Review: a Whole New Class of Propeller Pumps
The Nero 5 pump from Aqua Illumination is the first new product category from the lighting company ever and they swung for the fences with ambition. With its internal motor surrounded by a broad …
Two New Species of Gorgonians Endemic to Mexico
This has been a pretty good year for new species of corals being described and discovered and today we learned of two more. Two new species of gorgonians from two different genera have been formally c…
Top 5 Saltwater Fish We Wish Were Domesticated
Once upon a time, successful captive breeding of marine fish was pretty much limited to clownfish and new successes were heralded as huge triumphs. Nowadays there’s announcements of new species …
Pink Fusion & Purple Helix are Truly Coralline Algae in a Bottle
Pink Fusion and Purple Helix are two new products promising to contain ‘Coralline Algae in a Bottle’. Produced by a company called Atlantic Reef Conservation or ARC Reef for short, Coralli…
The Massive 2,000 Gallon Reef Tank on Dubai’s Palm Island
Dubai in the United Arab Emirates has made a name for itself across the globe for going big, having ambition, and this also extends to the reef aquarium owners of this country. While visiting BPK Duba…
Orca Phospha-Guard BIO-Cubes uses carbs to bust phosphate
Orca Aquacultural Laboratories Phospha-Guard BIO-Cubes use carbohydrates to remove phosphates to fuel a natural biomass combat phosphate vs. GFO and other systems that look to absorb it. Orca’s …
Top 7 Aquarium Heaters for Your Reef Aquarium
Amazing custom freshwater aquarium build with $94,000 pricetag
Most of us would dream of being able to build a nearly six-figure custom aquarium. Building something of this size and scale is no easy feat and takes…
Check out these cool curved nano AIOs from Aqua Japan
Check out these new cool curved front panel all-in-one nano aquariums from Aqua Japan. If you’re looking for somethings outside the typical glas…
White Corals’ Showroom Should Inspire All Aquarium Stores [Video]
White Corals is Europe’s leading online reef aquarium livestock and dry goods vendor and also the folks behind the unique Nyos brand of aquarium products. This quintessentially German business i…
Clownfish
Longfin Black Ice Clownfish is the First ‘Developed’ Longfin Marine Fish
The Longfin Black Ice Clownfish is a new strain of designer clowns from Sea & Reef Aquaculture which have well developed, ‘voluptuous’…
aberrant angelfish
Blue Skeleton Majestic Angelfish Is Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen!
Every now and then a very special reef fish that we’ll never forget pops up on our rare fish radar, and the ‘Blue Skeleton’ Majestic…
New Species
Heliopora hiberniana is a New Species of ‘White’ Blue Ridge Coral
Heliopora hiberniana is the first new species of blue ridge coral to be described in over two hundred and fifty years! Originally described by Palais …
Gear
Top 7 Aquarium Heaters for Your Reef Aquarium
The winter chill is in the air and is a good time to ensure our coral and fish are nice and toasty warm. With warmth on our minds, I thought it might …
