A coral by and large is a colony of polyp animals that is attached to the reef – it sits there, grows onto the reef, sometimes it breaks off but it’s supposed to re-attach or at least stabilize itself. Not…
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Reef Builders Pick: Five additional amazing nano reefs
Last week we covered five of our favorite nano reefs, but since some worthy aquariums didn’t make it to the list here is a follow up post with an additional five nano aquariums. Equally amazing, these nano reefs are very…
Welcome to Ecoreef Zero, population 1
Forget everything you know about reef tanks – this is a coral tank. What you see is the very limit of what a coral needs to survive and thrive, neatly packaged into a setup we call Ecoreef Zero. This nano…
Le Reef Tank de Michel is one large mature reefscape
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJgZleSzC2k[/youtube] This beautiful reef aquarium is a French creation by reef aquarist Michel who lives at La Chevrolière near Nantes in France. The two meter reef tank (6.5 feet) is completely filled with large and well grown in coral colonies…
Huge weekend video roundup with lots of Old School goodness
For some reason this weekend we happened to stumble onto a handful of videos that all have an old school slant to them. The first video of Ganzel’s Reef embeded above definitely has a new school cinematic approach but we…
All Rhizotrochus are illegally collected and imported
Have you ever wondered why you’ve (most likely) never seen a Rhizotrochus typus available for sale at your LFS? The obvious reason is that their suppliers probably don’t have them because this coral species is simply not legal to collect,…
Video: 10-foot Aussie Reef Tank Display is Twenty Years Old
For most of us, our tanks are just a few months or a few years old, with small frags and still many new tank issues. So it was refreshing to see a tank that was not just large at ten…
Is the Hobby Getting Too Expensive? Part II Livestock
As was discussed in Part 1 the cost of getting into the hobby, equipment-wise was surprisingly not as expensive as I had thought. This was the case even when some of the best equipment was being used. Even when inflation…
Thor and Thor X are MicMol’s mythology-inspired lighting fixtures
Lighting manufacturer MicMol has come up with two new iterations of its G4 Aqua Mini and Aqua Pro Series lights, the Thor, and Thor X. The Thor is a 60-watt fan-cooled compact and slimline light fixture made from a single…
PM Aquatic Imports closes marine livestock wholesale operation
PM Aquatic Imports Ltd has ceased wholesaling all its marine livestock and closed its saltwater holding facility in Manchester, UK. In a dramatic fire sale that began this week, PM announced to their customer base via email that they were…
