Show soft corals some love with a shallow lagoon tank

We don’t show enough of our tanks from the other side of the Atlantic so I thought I would show my own little project from the UK – this 200 liter/52 gallon soft coral-dominated lagoon tank. It was devised over…

Red Sea Max Nano Peninsula Gets Formal Announcement

The Red Sea Max Nano Peninsula is the newest all in one aquarium to come out of the Israel-base reef aquarium company. We first learned about the Max Nano Peninsula a couple weeks ago from a printed Red Sea catalog…

Microchip shortage slows aquatic launches and production

Have you noticed some of your favorite reefing electricals are out of stock lately? It may be down to a global shortage of microchips… Chips do a lot for many modern reefing products. They act as the brain of any…

Interzoo 2022 is Facing Headwinds with Missing Exhibitors

Interzoo is the world’s biggest pet trade show, which before the global pandemic, was held every other year in Nuremberg, Germany. In 2018 the show covered 13 giant halls that were large enough for our own team to take to…

10 Different Skimmer in use at the Reef Builders Studio [Video]

Protein skimmers are a piece of technology which is unique to saltwater aquariums and they’ve been employed as a tool to clean the water in our hobby for decades. There’s many different ways to combine the mixture of fine air…

The ReefStock Raffle is a Mountain of Aquarium Gear

With ReefStock Denver 2022 less than two weeks away we’re starting to make sense of the deluge of raffle prizes we’ve received from nearly every aquarium company in the American market. The ReefStock event staff takes great pride in assembling the…

Aquaman Knox Does a Video Deep Dive into Canister Filters

Since we are so deep into creating content for the reef aquarium hobby in terms of articles, videos and podcasts it’s always refreshing for us to see and hear what other aquarium veterans have to say about aquarium gear. One…

Wavereef’s K Series are Hybrid Skimmers AND UV Sterilizers

Original equipment manufacturer Wavereef has unveiled three skimmer ranges with UVs built-in. Available with AC or DC pumps and designed to sit either inside or outside of sumps, the K6, K7, and K9 protein skimmers are generic cone-shaped skimmers suitable…

Touring Our Ultimate Frag Tank [Video]

Coral frag tanks have emerged to become a natural offshoot of virtually all reef tanks and nearly every reefer either has one currently or has had one in the past. Whether it’s attached or separate a frag tank is an…

Help Us in Making #LFSSaturday an ‘Aquarium Holiday’

Ever year, just before the black friday and cyber monday deals, we make a plea to the greater aquarium community to do something for their local reef scene and support their local fish stores. A few years ago we started…