Over 200 new invertebrates and 11 new fish discovered in Philippines

The California Academy of Sciences recently concluded a biodiversity expedition in the Philippines discovering over 300 new species including 200 marine invertebrates and 11 new fish. The six-week expedition focused most of the marine exploration on the Verde Island Passage, a deep-water…

iPad app review: SeaHD by Air Sea Land and Reef Critters Hawaii by Keoki Stender

The Apple iPad has been out long enough now that we are finally starting to see some really nice applications developed exclusively for the larger touchscreen of the popular portable tablet computer. The SeaHD app by Air Land Sea and…

Man pours bleach into fish tanks, kills $8000 worth of livestock

At Underwater world, a fish store that is located Helena, Montana over $8,000 in corals and fish have died. The owner says that at around 1pm a man walked into the store and befriended him. The owner turned his back…

Kessil A150w LED spotlight colors tested against the Mame RGB Ecolight

We’ve already looked all up inside Kessil’s A150w LED spotlight and it’s matrix array LED chip but the ultimate proof is in the pudding. Pictured above is a sneak peek at Ecoreef Two which has been growing medium light corals…

Picasso Clarkii clownfish likely originating from Bali Aquarich

The Picasso Clarki clownfish is a strain that has been a long time coming, considering we’ve had picasso, snowflake, platinum and wyoming white clownfish for years as well as misbarred maroons and spotcinctus clownfish. We first spied a picture of…

GrowsSpot LED grow light from Sunshine Systems has colors for reefing too

The GrowSpot is an LED Grow Light in a spotlight form factor from Sunshine Systems, the makers of the popular GrowUFO grow light for hydroponic and horticultural use. The GrowSpot LED comes in four colors that stimulate different parts of…

Kessil’s new H350 LED spotlight features high tech vapor heatsink cooling

We’ve barely begun to review the Kessil A150w LED for growing corals and yet they’ve already announced the a150’s bigger brother. The Kessil H350 LED is a new 90 watt spotlight announced today which uses an advanced vapor heatsink for…

Metis XM LED PAR values leak out

The Metis XM LED is one of Pacific Sun’s newest high performance LED reef aquarium lighting fixtures. Thankfully the PAR readings for this light have finally leaked out on the interwebs and we have the above image to share with…

Self-ballasted induction lamps are ready to be your next refugium light

  The induction lamps that we can’t get enough of lately are already available here and there in a self-ballasted package which is ready to be screwed into a mogul or edison base. Both the globe, circular and tubular form…

Next gen Panorama LED modules include a remote-controlled RGB flavor

The RGB Panorama LED module that will populate the next generation Panorama fixtures from Ecoxotic is so freaking sweet; it will be much thinner and the RGB LED version will be controllable via an included remote. RGB LEDs are a…