My Corals are Dying: Why?

    Over the years I have been asked a lot of questions. Some have come and gone over time, like what is the best whatever or what fish or coral can I add to my tank. Some, however, have…

How To Do Coral Frags Right

During my time in the hobby things have changed dramatically. Most of us started off with soft corals, and these were usually large wild colonies, which is a dramatic difference from the SPS fragments (frags) that many of us now…

Halichoeres chrysus: A Hardy Little “Banana with Fins” That’s Just Right for Beginners

Known by a variety of common names—banana wrasse, canary wrasse, golden wrasse, yellow coris, et al—Halichoeres chrysus is hardy, readily available, reasonably affordable, well suited to modest-sized systems, and among the better choices for beginners. Of course, owing to all…

Wesley Vreeswijk is the Ultimate Reefing Control Freak

In America, many of us have more than one tank, and sometimes more than one room of tanks. But for many European reefers where space is often a constraint, having a single display tank is more often the norm. Having…

Abyzz A1200 will be one MONSTER controllable water pump

Abyzz has a new pump coming to its lineup and it’s called the A1200. If this picture and the naming convention holds true, by the looks of it seems as if Abyzz has created one monster controllable water pump. Currently…

Bubble King Ecomax 200 & 250 protein skimmers by Royal Exclusiv

The Bubble King Ecomax 200 & 250 is a new line of high performance protein skimemrs designed by Royal Exclusiv, exclusively for Extra Bright Lighting. The two new Bubble King Ecomax skimmers are derived from the Bubble King 200 VS13 and…

The coral-packed reef tank of Aquatic Art Inc.

With the reefing hobby’s increasing emphasis on frags and collecting corals rather than growing them, it’s becoming increasingly rare to see what a real grown out mini reef aquarium should look like. Thankfully, our old friend Cris Capp of Aquatic…

AlgaGen PODS to feed your corals and everything in between

AlgaGen was on hand this weekend at ReefStock and we got the scoop on their newest product, the AlgaGen Apocyclops PODS. AlgaGen PODS contain a mix of live aquacultured copepods, microalgaes and purified seawater, and the PODS mix is used to…

Sneak peek of some of the hot livestock coming to ReefStock 2016

Reef aquarium events are an integral part to the experience of being a reef hobbyist in America. These gatherings offer us an opportunity to meet other reefers, see new products, catch a speaker talk or two, exchange ideas and information, but who…

Acropora for Beginners

With the introduction of more aquaculture and mariculture facilities, there has been a boom in specimens available at the local fish stores these days. But I will say for certain that if you can get a frag from a successful…