Contest Roundup: Aquarium Specialty/Tunze and Innovative Marine/iPads

We love free things and wanted to share a few of the cool contests going on at the moment. Right now Aquarium Specialty is giving away a Tunze 6095 for a lucky winner and Innovative Marine giving away an iPad…

C.A.S.T. from Coral-Shop is an innovative take on mechanical prefilters for reef aquariums

C.A.S.T. is a new and truly innovative way to filter out fine particulate matter from your reef aquarium with something other than a filter sock. The Coral-Shop C.A.S.T. is an add-on box that can be daisy chained, added onto existing…

Sanjay Joshi’s amazing reef tank is equal parts rare fish and juicy corals

Dr. Sanjay Joshi’s incredible reef tank is a Smörgåsbord of goodies ranging from amazingly matured and colorful SPS corals, to an incredible collection of exotic reef fish. You may recognize the Joculator angelfish from the classic spawning footage of the pair, and indeed,…

Lipogramma evides and Pseudochromis olivaceus shows up on LiveAquaria’s Diver’s Den

LiveAquaria has been scoring with some really top notch fishes lately especially from the Curacao and Red Sea region. Latest additions to the Diver’s Den to come out from these locales includes the Klayi basslet, Carmabi basslets, the Spanish Flag grouper from Curacao,…

CorAffixPro by Two LIttle Fishes is a super sticky icky super glue gel

CorAffix Pro is a new super glue gel from Two LIttle Fishes which is not unlike Ecotech Marine’s Ecotech Elements Coral Glue. Super sticky and fast-setting super glue gel, check. $49 for a 295ml bottle with a red pin cap,…

Mr. Kang’s Korean reef aquarium is a field of exquisite corals on an elegant aquascape

When we first happen upon a reef aquarium in pictures or real life, one of the first things we look for is the way that the tank is unique, in what it does well. As far as we’re concerned, this…

ReefBrite TECH LED strip light is a coral quarantine lifesaver

While spending time with the DFWMAS crew last year and getting a rare bit of time to tour around the vendor area, I ran into Joy Meadows of ReefBrite and I was blinded by her table of LED lights. ReefBrite…

Siam Reef Club’s dynamic and ever changing 30 gallon cylinder reef

Thailand is home not only to ChingChai’s amazing DSPS tank and the SRC’s softy tank, but also to the quaint little 30 gallon cylinder you see above that houses some pretty amazing inhabitants. This convex mini reef aquarium sits right in…

Close up photos depict the unique features of the Resplendent Cherubfish

It’s been a little while since we’ve mentioned the captive bred Resplendent Cherubfish Centropyge hybrid from RCT Hawaii, but a whole crop of new images from LiveAquaria shows this aquarium gem in supreme detail. This particular Resplendent Cherubfish is the same…

Floating corallites: larvae of some stony corals take a while to settle down

A new previously unknown life-stage of stony coral larvae has been published describing how a small percentage of lab-grown coral planula can float through metamorphosis. That was not a euphimism, as some stony coral larvae have been documented secreting a…