The technological advances in the hobby each year are fascinating to look back at and reef aquarium lighting is no exception. 2009 brought many new improved lighting on the market. Despite the fall of PFO and the LED patent war…
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Reef Hot Spot opens Aquaculture system in Los Angeles
Reef Hot Spot, the online retailer based in California, has recently completed the installation of a new culturing system at its Los Angeles Airport warehouse. What this means is Reef Hot spot will begin to offer aquacultured corals to the…
Saltwater Connection has two new cone skimmers coming SWC120, SWC160
The Saltwater Connection, makers of fine inexpensive protein skimmers have new models in the works. Both of these new models are cone skimmers as is the current rage within the industry. The first model SWC160 Cone has a 9″ x…
Aqua light the new Flash LED T5 hybird lighting fixture
Aqua Light a high end lighting provider based out of Germany has a new LED based T5 lighting fixture named the Giant Flash LED that will once again, raise the bar on high end lighting. This lighting system is a…
In Tuamotu, Maxima Clams are the Reef Builders
Tuamotu Maxima clams are the hottest thing to hit the Tridacna reef scene since the Maxea hybrids from earlier in the year. This past week a shipment of large magnificent Tridacna maxima was imported into the U.S. by Pacific Aqua…
Are Yellow and Scopas tangs more than kissing cousins?
Sometimes the best discoveries in science are happy accidents, and this year researchers at the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding uncovered some genetic data which supports ideas that hobbyists have been suspecting for years: namely, that some fishes we assumed…
Neptune grouper and conspicuous angelfish star in SPLASH event in Greenwich CT
Cephalopholis igarashiensis, better known as the Neptune Grouper, is a stunning fish from extremely deep water and we’ve just been floored by this live specimen since it showed up at House of Fins way back in June. Even in that…
Long Island’s Country Critters as seen through a pictorial of really cool fish
If you want to see a diverse selection of really oddball fish, Long Island’s Country Critters is the bee’s knees and it was a great pleasure to pass through their facility last week. You might recall a video that we…
Roa excelsa status: one is still swimming
As we reported a while back, one of the best shops in Japan, Blue Harbor, obtained two Roa excelsa from Hawaii three weeks ago. Unfortunately, one of the butterflyfish was already dead in a plastic bag when they arrived at…
LiveAquaria’s Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus syn., the orange face angelfish
The orange face angelish, Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus, is a highly elusive ‘species’ of Chaetodontoplus. This elusive fish is only available from Taiwanese reefs and the fish is believed to be a hybrid species perhaps between C. septentrionalis and C. melanosoma. There…
