Top 10 New Reef Products Introduced at InterZoo 2018

Traveling all the way to Nuremberg Germany for InterZoo is a ton of work, it ain’t cheap, but it’s oh so worth it! If you needed any indication that this is one of the most important shows for releases of…

Fauna Marin Reef-Focused AquaHomeTest Launching Soon

Alongside the announcement of their new Elemental additives, this year Fauna Marin is also kicking off a new line of aquarium test kits. Aqua Home Test is Fauna Marin’s take on the at-home testing kit and will cover basic mineral…

Fauna Marin Elementals Are Very Pure Liquid Calcium, KH, Magnesium & Potassium

Faun Marin is releasing a new line of liquid aquarium additives called simple, Elementals. While Fauna Marin has perhaps one of the most extensive catalogs of additives, elements, supplements, foods, vitamins, aminos etc, this is the first time they’ve offered…

Unique Corals Amazeballs Goni is the ‘Homewrecker’ of Flowerpot Corals

It seems like flowerpot corals, Goniopora or gonies for short, have been on the verge of a tipping point in popularity for quite some time now. We’ve always had pretty good access to nicely colored Gonies in green, red and blues,…

Unique Corals is the Ultimate ‘Man Cave’ of Aquarium Corals

In just five short years Unique Corals has become not just a big player in online coral sales, but an ambassador of reef aquarium culture. Online coral vendors are as common as Seven Elevens but UC takes it one step…

Hanna Seawater Refractometer is the Ultimate Way to measure Salinity

I started keeping saltwater tanks in 1996 and since then have used many different tools and instruments to measure salinity. At first it was with floating glass hydrometers, and soon thereafter it was swing arm hydrometers.  These two devices use the…

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…

My Corals are Dying: Why?

    Over the years I have been asked a lot of questions. Some have come and gone over time, like what is the best whatever or what fish or coral can I add to my tank. Some, however, have…

Seizing the Moment and Limiting Regrets

As I have discussed numerous times in these articles, this is a hobby of patience. That is, we need to be patient and wait for things to occur in order to be successful such as waiting frags to grow into…

Black Friday is in Full Effect at SaltwaterAquarium.com!

SaltwaterAquarium.com has quickly become one of the major online dry goods suppliers in our industry.  They are offering huge Black Friday product sales and discounts as part of their bigger November Sales Month.  Their website has been updated frequently throughout…