The first May edition of the Friday Smorgasbord has some choice cuts to finish your workweek. First off we have this interesting report about reef restoration — oyster reef restoration that is. Like many of our waterways, the Chesapeake Bay is…
The Wonders of Vinegar for Aquarium Cleaning
Though the saltwater aquarium hobby certainly has its share of costly, high-tech equipment and gadgetry, not all the tools we use are quite so complicated. In fact, one aquarium-maintenance workhorse not only costs next to nothing, but is also about…
6 tips for social marketing in the aquarium hobby
You’ve set up a coral oasis in your spare bedroom, a fish breeding operation in the basement, have taken to acrylic-smithing in the garage, or have are a regular brick-and-mortar LFS and you need to reach your customers. Social media…
Kalk King aims to be an affordable and foolproof kalkwasser doser
The Kalk King is not just a new product but it could also be eligible for a new product category, brought to you by E-Fins, makers of the Algae Mower Vac that we also didn’t know we needed. Simply put…
Mitras LED bar provides full spectrum photons in linear fashion
The Mitras full spectrum LED bar is a just announced lighting product from GHL which will deliver Mitras-like light color and intensity customization in a striplight package. Not to be confused with the simpler Mitras Simu LED striplight also recently…
Centropyge debelius, rare look at the blue Mauritius angelfish
Centropyge debelius is one of the least well known species of pygmy angelfish and as rare as we make it out to be, a few are collected here and there in Mauritius. As you might expect, the Blue Mauritius Angelfish…
Don’s High-Tech Reef pulls all the stops for a futuristic aquarium
Don’s High Tech reef tank, built by Blue World Aquarium, is an exercise in futurism resulting in a stunningly unique marine aquarium ‘machine’. Blue World Aquariums first crossed our radar with their XBOX 360 master piece, and they’ve clearly not been sitting…
GloFish Sunburst and Moonrise bring more designer fish to freshwater
GloFish are cool. There, we said it, and now surely the pitchforks and the sickles are coming out as you prepare to burn us at the stake, but hear us out. Two new varieties of GloFish were just announced, the GloFish Sunburst…
Royal Nature test kits launching at Zoomark
Royal Nature is adding to its product line with three professional-grade test kits for magnesium, calcium and alkalinity this month at Zoomark 2013 in Blogona, Italy. Keeping the tests user friendly was a big concern for Royal Nature and the…
Cherry Corals’ latest crop of extreme zoanthid closeups will melt your face
There are coral macros and then there are coral extreme closeups! Long known for their fancy photography, Cherry Corals has a track record of producing wild, popping images of some of the hottest corals. The use of flattering photo settings…
