Climacontrol+ is Eheim’s smart new heater-cooler combination

Eheim has entered the aquarium cooler market with its new device the Climacontrol+. A refrigerant cooler, it’s designed not only to kick in when the water temperature gets too hot but due to the built-in 300-watt heater, it will also…

Yellow Tang, Candy Basslet, and Pygmy Angelfish Being Farmed in Japan

KAMIHATA FISH IND. LTD. is a member of the Kamihata Group, which manufactures and sells the world-famous Hikari brand of ornamental fish food, and imports and wholesales freshwater fish, saltwater fish, goldfish, water plants, reptiles and small animals to aquarium…

Red Encrusting Algae Grows in Freshwater Too

Algae are one of the oldest and most diverse groups of plants on the planet, growing in virtually all places that qualify as habitable, and even some that don’t such as snow in Antarctica. Encrusting red algae such as Mesophyllum Coralline…

Acanthastrea pachysepta: Your Orange Lobo is most Likely an Acan!

Acanthastrea pachysepta is a reclassification of a coral that has stumped us for well over a decade. Formerly classified as a Lophyllia (which now includes all Symphyllia too), the majority of orange lobos exhibit a different color, pattern, morphology and especially behavior than any…

Mile High Reefers’ Coverage of ReefStock 2019

ReefStock has developed a well-deserved reputation for being a different kind of reef aquarium and coral show. This year 2019 was the 12th time we held this annual event in Denver Colorado and the reef aquarium scene, the stores, coral…

Greenland Sharks are the Ancients of the Polar Seas

There’s a lot we don’t know about so much of the marine life living in the deep ocean or in the cold polar seas, and it turns out that their age can be astonishingly ancient. It’s already well known that…

The Artic Sunrise Lobo is Another Insane LPS Scored by Ultra Coral Australia!

By: Vincent Chalias Ultra Coral Australia scored another insane Lobophyllia pachysepta, and we couldn’t resist showing it off! What makes this piece so special is the very wide palette of colors in numerous shades of green, blue, yellow and gold blending…

2018 Was The Hottest Year On Record For The Ocean

Last year was the hottest for the planet’s oceans since global records began in 1958, according to an international team of scientists who track the data. Their findings were published Wednesday in the scientific journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. The…

What exactly has changed with New Life Spectrum food?

Last year New Life Spectrum announced it was making some changes to its food and had it on hand at MACNA. For those of us that weren’t able to catch up with the New Life team there and were wondering…

Tropical Marine Power line of food for corals and marine fish

Marine Power is a semi-new line of foods designed for coral and marine fish by Tropical, a company in Poland that makes flake and granulated foods for aquarium and pond fish and reptiles. Although this writer hasn’t come across Tropical…