Brio 35 is a stylish aquaponics system
The Brio 35 is the first system in a new line of aquaponic aquariums that really makes an elegant impact. We have seen simple aquaponic setups and some larger ones that are all business, the Brio…
New Deco Rocks For Panta Rhei Hydro Wizard 42 & 63
The Hydro Wizard pumps are among the most popular for extreme high flow requirements, especially in large and extra large reef tanks. These pumps are quiet and powerful, but they are anything but low …
NanoBox Reef Handmade LED Lights Now On Marine Depot
NanoBox Reef is one of the success stories of DIY LED lights growing and maturing into something much, much, better. Over the years we’ve watched NanoBox Reef develop a very unique kind of …
How Do Your Prepare An Aquarium For Disaster?
The hurricane season is in full swing here in North America and a significant swath of the Caribbean and Florida are about the face down the business end of one of the biggest storms in history. While…
Neat Pair of ORA Hybrid Polymnus Maroon Clownfish On LiveAquaria
It’s incredible to think how many maroon clownfish hybrids have surfaced over the years but we still have never seen them with this particular crossing. This pair of hybrids from ORA and listed …
Someone FINALLY Made A Magnetic Aquarium Thermometer!
The temperature of aquarium water, or ANY biological system for that matter, is the most critical parameter we can measure yet most reefers rarely give it the attention it deserves. I’d be …
Horniman’s ‘Lab Grown’ Tenuis Acros Are The REAL Limited Edition Corals!
For the last twenty years a certain subset of wild corals have been deemed to be ‘limited edition’, but since these come from the boundless ocean, how limited could they be? Well today we …
MOAI Robotic Glass Cleaner Is Now Pre-Selling An Improved Version!
We can’t believe that it’s already been a year since we first and last mentioned the ground-breaking Moai robotic glass cleaner . This mobile robot also has a built in webcam so not only c…
Unusual Corals In Lembeh Strait
Lembeh Strait The Lembeh Strait is a holy grail amongst scuba divers. This relatively small channel of water is home to the highest concentration of crazy critters known anywhere under the sea. Scuba …
Octo S-130 Is A New Standout Protein Skimmer
The Octo S-130 is a brand new protein skimmer introduced at the CoralVue booth at MACNA with a lot of swanky features to make it stand out. It was more than five years ago when we saw the first ‘…
Getting Burned Out On The Hobby (And How To Avoid It)
As Neil Young sang “It’s better to burn out, than it is to rust, cause rust never sleeps”, is applicable to this hobby in a number of ways. First, as anyone who has had a tank for a while knows, saltw…
The MACNA 2017 Video Tour Part 4
It’s hard to believe that MACNA 2017 has already come and gone – having missed a day due to illness I really felt the importance of having MACNA be a three day show, and I personally could…
Mistakes Newbies Make
Literally every person I know laments over the mistakes they made in the past. Many of us fondly recall our early years in the hobby, and we also all …
Chaetodon argentatus Butterflyfish Hybrid Spotted in Japan
So many times when we see aberrant or hybrid reef fish it’s in the setting of an aquarium livestock dealer. So it’s always a nice surprise…
Five New Products Shaping The Future Of Reef Tanks Part 3 : Smart Dosing Pumps
While we may not have been able to foresee the advent of Alkalinity Machines and Roll Filters, the need for dosing in our aquariums has been around fo…
Ralph’s Reef Tank Is A Classically Perfect Mini Reef
When we first saw Ralph’s reef tank, we were immediately transported to a time when the aesthetic of saltwater aquariums was essentially to recr…
Eheim CompactON Pumps Are GoingON A Ten Year Old Design
Eheim is a company that was once synonymous with quality and durability, with many of their Classic water pumps still in use decades into their deploy…
Can’t Say I’ve Ever Seen A Cyclo Like This One!
I like to think I’ve seen my fair share of disc and fungiid corals, I was alone in my appreciation of Lithophyllon in the early 2000s and I…
Reef Builders Destinations Tela Honduras, May 28th – June 3rd 2018
We’re excited to announce our second Reef Builders Destination trip. This time we are heading to Tela Honduras where earlier this year we fo…
Five New Products Shaping The Future Of Reef Tanks Part 2 : Filter Rolls
The reef aquarium hobby sure is moving very fast in a lot of new and interesting directions. Yesterday we discussed the advancement of automatic aquar…
Australian researcher develops ‘IVF for coral’ to help regrow reefs at scale
One thing we know, the way corals reproduce are pretty inefficient as the broadcast spawning only results in a small portion of viable larvae actually…
Custom Bashsea Twister Skimmer is one souped up foam fractitioner
There is something about the way Bashsea approaches equipment and its not subtlety. Case in point, this customer Bashsea Twister Skimmer designed for …
Unboxing Frags Rescued From The Path Of Hurricane Irma
Last week it seemed like a hurricane of biblical proportions was going to descend on Florida and ravage everyone, everything, and every aquarium in si…
Aquatop Recife all-in-one marine aquariums good but not great
Aquatop Recife is the company’s first foray into the all-in-one aquarium designed for just the marine or reef system in mind, but our first impr…
Adorable Video Perfectly Illustrates The Life Of A Coral
We came across this adorable video from Honolulu Civil Beat Inc which perfectly illustrated the life of a coral. While it may be second natu…
Five New Products Shaping The Future Of Reef Tanks Part 1: KH Monitors
Technology is a beast that marches ever forward, and sometimes it seems like it progresses in fits and starts. Nowhere is that pattern more clear than…
Proaquatix Captive Bred Scrawled Cowfish
There’s no denying that marine cowfishes are among some of the most alien and bizarre looking reef fish that ever make it to our aquariums. With…
This Angelfish Isn’t Real (But It Does Exist!)
The blueline and conspicuous angelfish are two of our favorite Chaetodontoplus species and now we might get to see what these two fish will …
Mistakes Even Experienced Hobbyists Make
I would love to say that I never make mistakes. But as anyone who knows me knows, I do make them, and sadly I make them way too often, especially in r…
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 Angelfish is such an example. This sensational sp…
Sea Dwelling’s Yellowfin Angelfish Looks Like He’s Been In A Few Brawls
This Black & Blue angelfish may not win any beauty contests among aberrant angelfish, but it is the first time we’ve seen this species don this kind of garb. Of the many different species of…
You’ve Never Seen A Speckled Flame Angelfish Like This Before!
Boy, even after years of writing about all the rare, unusual, hybrid and aberrant reef fish, the natural reef always has something new and special that we’ve never seen before. This speckled fla…
Sanjay’s 500 Gallon Mega Reef Tank Video
In the American reef aquarium scene, the name Sanjay Joshi is synonymous with reefing knowledge, experience, and especially brightly lit reef tanks. Also known as ‘Photon Man’ to his inner…
Ralph’s Reef Tank Is A Classically Perfect Mini Reef
When we first saw Ralph’s reef tank, we were immediately transported to a time when the aesthetic of saltwater aquariums was essentially to recreate a miniature reef. His glass box perfectly enc…
Maintaining A Super Easy Nano Reef Tank (Video)
The first thing most non-aquarist think when you tell them you have a saltwater aquarium is that it must take so much time, be very expensive, and very hard to maintain. That may have been true way ba…