Revisiting my Elos tank after 18 months
Sometimes we just aren’t as smart as we think we are. I am using the “royal we” as I know I am definitely not as smart as I think I am a lot of the tie, especially when it comes to this hobby. Having …
Stopping To Smell The Orchids: A Day With The Exotic Animals of Adventure Park PNG
I’ve been accused of having a ‘one track mind’, especially when it comes to corals and diving in far flung countries. That’s 99% true, most of the time I just want to know how&…
Friday Smorgasbord: Underwater music fests, whale bumps, killer eels and a bit of fun
Here’s another addition of our Friday Smorgasbord featuring a few fun videos that captured our attention this past week. We have an underwater music fest, kitesurfer vs. whale, eel battle royale…
You’ve Never Seen Caribbean Corals Like This!!! (VIDEO)
When you think of a real colorful, lush Coral Reef with fields of corals growing like a garden, all of us picture the crystal clear waters and endless corals of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. ThatR…
MASNA opens 2nd Annual MASNA Scientific Poster Session ahead of MACNA in August
The Marine Aquarium Society of North America (MASNA) just announced its 2nd Annual MASNA Scientific Poster Session ahead of MACNA in August. Poster abstract submissions are due July 14, 2017…
DIY Chaetomorpha Reactors Are All The Rage Right Now!
Intentionally injecting fine bubbles into a reef tank is a highly questionable endeavor, but one current craze I can totally get behind is the huge wave of DIY Chaetomorpha reactors reefers …
Ultimate Aberrant Yellow Tang Teased By LiveAquaria
Do you know how cool a particular fish has to be for LiveAquaria’s own Director Kevin Kohen to get in front of the camera to tell us all about it? It’s got to be something at lea…
AutoAqua Qeye and Qshooter Combo available from CoralVue
Remember the AutoAqua Qeye and Qshooter Combo we wrote about a few years back that allows you to shoot food to your fish from your smartphone? Well we are starting to see it percolate onto retail site…
Oblique Butterflyfish Is The Coolest Fish You’ve Never Heard Of!
The Oblique Butterflyfish, Prognathodes obliquus, is a rare species from St. Paul’s Rock in the middle of the equatorial Atlantic Ocean. Although few mere mortals ever make it to this extre…
New GrassyCore LED With Record-Breaking Color Rendition by Volx Japan
The new GrassyCore LED light is an exciting new collaboration between two major light manufacturers, Volx Japan and HM Electronics of Taiwan. For years Volx Japan has been the market leader for bleedi…
Eheim LEDControl Shows How Out Of Touch This Company Has Become
If any other company had released a device like the LEDControl we would give them a pass, but we have much higher expectations of the venerable German company. Looking more or less like a PWM controll…
New Vital Wave LEDs Are Serving Up A Rainbow of Color
Simple LED Spotlights have mostly given way to controllable fixtures in the Western reefing aquarium scene, but new controllable versions from Vital Wave are packing a ton of new heat. Not only are th…
Bad Things We Add to Our Tanks
As St. Bernard wrote “The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions”. With the meaning of this is that we often …
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Corals As Colorful As This Lobophyllia Shouldn’t Exist!
You know we’ve covered our fair share of sensational corals in our many years of blogging but there’s always a coral out there which …
Sanjay Joshi’s Nano Reef Tank Breaks All The Rules (Video)
Before going to Reefapalooza NY from Denver earlier this summer, you could say I took a slight detour to Maryland and then the State College Penn…
An Oldie But A Goodie: Summer Doldrums At The Local Fish Store
It’s that time of year when dust is settling at the LFS, so take in a few thoughts for what the professional fish-slingers and coral fraggers ca…
Scitronix Releases Tantalizing Teaser Video Of Their LittleBlue Controller
Austrian hardware manufacturer Scitronix is a new company that has ambitious goals in the aquarium hobby. In addition to developing a sophisticated LE…
Sicce’s Forthcoming Smart Pumps Will Have Net-Connected Features!
We’ve been super excited for the forthcoming release of the new Sicce Smart DC controllable water pumps since their introduction last year. We&#…
RVS Fishworld Continues To Train Whole Communities Of Net-Caught Aquarium Fisherman
Over the years a lot of ink has been spilled about cyanide-caught fish, and a lot of lip service has been paid to catching ornamental fish using nets.…
Chasing Coral Review: This Very Important Film Was Way Overdue!
Chasing Coral is a profound documentary that has been a long time in the making. Made by the crew that brought us Chasing Ice, the team at Exposure La…
Scientists reanimate frozen fish embryos with gold, antifreeze and lasers
It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie (or a strange MacGyver episode), but scientists have developed a way to reanimate frozen fish embryos u…
Take A Look At The Reef Tank Of An Australian Professional
Many aquarium professionals who either run a fish store or do aquarium service and maintenance, generally don’t have much of a personal fish tan…
Not All Fish Are Cultured Equally
By: Michael Judson Ever since “captive bred” labels started popping up all over clownfish tanks, captive breeding has remained one of the flagshi…
Focustronic Wants To Change The Way We Think About Lighting
Over the years the aquarium hobby has seen a number of drastic changes in ideology. Wet/dry filters transformed how we think about biological filtrati…
All new Cobalt Mini MJ pumps announced
Cobalt Aquatics announced they are looking back at a classic, but with a modern twist with the addition of two Cobal Mini MJ pumps designed for nano s…
Visit the Great Barrier Reef live on Twitter Periscope Tonight
I’d love to get to the Great Barrier Reef, but probably won’t anytime soon. If you’re like me, or just want to go back, check out th…
Tubelip wrasses use slime-covered lips to chomp on coral
Researchers notices tubelip wrasses, a type of coral reef fish, have slime on their “lips” to help them eat corals. These may not have bee…
Hawaii Anti-Aquarium Bill Gets Vetoed, But The Fight Isn’t Over!
Today a small subset of the saltwater aquarium hobby is rejoicing at the announcement that Hawaii Governor David Ige vetoed the baseless and discrimin…
This Lemonpeel Angelfish Is Old Enough To Buy A Beer!
The saltwater aquarium hobby is chugging along and with it, some very old aquarium veteran fish are continuing to thrive, many of which are olde…
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…
Great New Pictures of BLUE Queen Angelfish from St. Paul’s Rock
The Queen Angelfish is one of the most iconic reef fish in the Caribbean Sea. It’s appearance has some regional variation throughout its range from Florida to Brazil, but there’s one place…
I Saw A White Bicolor Angelfish And It Was Magical
When I traveled from Sydney to Cairns to visit Cairns Marine, I knew I’d be treated to see some very neat rare fish, and some juicy corals. But as luck would have it, the fish collecting crew br…
Sanjay Joshi’s Nano Reef Tank Breaks All The Rules (Video)
Before going to Reefapalooza NY from Denver earlier this summer, you could say I took a slight detour to Maryland and then the State College Pennsylvania before heading to the big show. The reef …
Take A Look At The Reef Tank Of An Australian Professional
Many aquarium professionals who either run a fish store or do aquarium service and maintenance, generally don’t have much of a personal fish tank. This phenomenon is generally summarized as R…
Best Reef Tank Teardown Time Lapse Video
Reef tanks don’t last forever, but it’s nice when they go out on a high note. Usually when a reef is shut down, it’s because of some aquarium catastrophe, or extraneous circumstances…