Fragbox Corals Reef Aquarium Store in Toronto Canada

Fragbox Corals Fragbox Corals is a reef aquarium store based in Toronto Canada, offering a wide selection of rare and colorful coral fragments. This small shop has a simple sign outside stating “corals” and blacked out windows and an alluring…

Kyocera releases aquarium LED light in this summer

Kyocera is Japanese company that is well-known for copier machine and ceramic products, and more recently smartphones.  I did not know that they have a business for LED light until recently.  It looks they are making some LED products for…

Queen City Frag Fest taking place this weekend in Buffalo, New York

Queen City Frag Fest is set to take place this weekend, Sunday April 15th at Babeville in Buffalo, New York. This marks the 4th anniversary of this special one-day event in the “Queen City” located nearby Niagara Falls. Being several…

Building my Last Reef Tank

As the year winds down we tend to look back on our failures and successes and the major events of the year, as well as ahead to the things that we want to accomplish and what we are looking forward…

How To Program Your LED Lights For A Reef Tank

Back when we were just using T5s or metal halides, the ‘programming’ was only concerned with how long to run the lights of a given intensity. But now that we’ve got access to multiple channels of light, in various colors, it can…

Illumagic Makes Killer LED Lights For Nanos, Reef Displays, & Commercial Scale

Illumagic is a Taiwanese company that has been making LED aquarium lights about as long as all the major players in the aquarium hobby. Being separate from mainland China, Europe and North America, Illumagic has really been able to develop…

Ecotech Marine Products And Service Over The Years

     Over the years we have been fortunate in seeing innovation after innovation come to the hobby. Initially, most of these innovations came from Europe, which due to their being in the hobby longer undoubtedly accounted for their innovations…

You Won’t Believe This One ‘Trick’ That Keeps Jaime’s Reef So Awesome

We all love reef tanks, and to some degree, the alchemy involved with keeping all the parameters of lighting, flow and chemistry appropriate for coral growth. But what if you could cut out all the water testing, most of the…

Echinomorpha Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

Even if you’re into chalice corals and consider yourself a connoisseur of Echinophyllia Mycedium and Oxypora, there’s still a pretty good chance you don;t know or don’t have an Echinomorpha. With only one species in the genus, Echinomorpha is kind of an odd…

How to Arrange your Corals Based on your Lighting

There are tons of choices when it comes to lighting in this hobby and depending on when and how you got into the hobby, it may tell what kind of lighting you have. Lighting is essential for the health of…