Reef Builders Personal Shopper: amazing reef life you can buy online right now

Sometimes we find ourselves browsing the amazing WYSIWYG of our livestock sponsors and we are just flabergasted at what can be found in a single day. Some of these specimens are top of the line, and you’ll feel it at…

March 2010 Advanced Aquarist now Online

The March Edition of Advanced Aquarist is now online. In this edition you read about a very interesting article by Dana Riddle, Aquarium Corals: Stony Coral Parasites: Red and Black Bugs: Identification Guide, Preventive Measures, and a Review of Treatment…

Sayaka Kajita Ganz’s amazing reclaimed material artwork

Sayaka Kajita Ganz is a wonderful artist turning reclaimed objects and scrap metals into unique and flowing pieces of art. The Japanese-born Ganz currently resides in Wayne, Indiana and her influence by nature is shown throughout her dramatic work. Taking…

NanoScope from DD Aquariums Solutions

The new NanoScope from DD aquarium is a scope with a lens that allows you to peak inside your saltwater aquarium world. While most of us can only see the outside of our tanks, the NanoScope seeks to change all…

Oceanic’s new BioCube HQI Metal Halide nano aquarium

Oceanic has updated their Biocube nano aquarium series to incorporate a  double ended or “HQI” Metal Halide. This Biocube series has been popular with the nano aquarium crowd and Oceanic has taken it upon themselves to offer a few other…

Karma works: Neptune Aquatics coral bandits arrested

Remember those shoplifters who nabbed over $1,000 worth of clams and corals from Neptune Aquatics in Milpitas, Calif., the other week? Seems these Darwin Award candidates got what they had coming as reefing karma worked again. Recently four suspects were…

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…

Man steals over $1k worth of corals and gets away

With the current state of the economy I’m surprised we haven’t seen this happen more often. A Fish store  in Milpitas, California was robbed of over $1,000 worth of pricey corals. As the fish store goes on to describe: A…

Coral reefs proved to be evolutionary “hotspot”

A new study has found coral reefs account for more new species than any other tropical marine habitats. Through analysis of fossil records going back 540 million years ago, researchers have analyzed the rate of evolution and discovered new species…

The biggest marine and reef aquarium stories of 2009

2009 was a very big year for reef aquarists around the world and it was our pleasure to bring the news to reefers during the last completion of Earth’s solar orbit. We have hand selected some stories which are shoed-in…