Acropora carduus is a fast-growing, thin-branching species of SPS coral which comes in a huge range of color forms, none more popular and widespread in the reef keeping hobby than the venerable ‘Red Dragon Acro‘. First introduced to the reef…
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Platinum Blue DC Pump Review – A New Generation of Workhorse Water Return
The Platinum Blue DC Pump is one of the best new controllable centrifugal water movers to hit the aquarium hobby in a long time, and apparently many companies around the world think so too. We’ve been using this pump under…
Man Illegally collects Ricordea from Puerto Rico worth $90,000 USD
Luis Joel Vargas Martell (Vargas) was the co-owner of a home-based saltwater aquarium business, Carebbean Reefers (spelling error intentional) that also operated online through the EBay store “Redragon1975”. A large part of the business was devoted to the sale of…
Royal Exclusiv Teases New XL Double Cone Protein Skimmer
The Royal Exclusiv Double Cone protein skimmer is the archetype for cone shaped protein skimmers in the aquarium world. For years the internal in-sump version of this skimmer has maxxed out with the Double Cone 250 but now it looks…
Five Reef Critters That Come ONLY From Western Australia
Australia is home to so much exotic marine life which differs wildly from coast to coast, including the southern seas which are filled with alien cold water fish. However while most of Australian aquarium animals comes from the Great Barrier…
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…
