Panorama Marine & Actinic LED strips produce some unbelievably colorful soft and stony corals

The Panorama LED strip light has been around in some form or another for years now, and the Panorama LED fixture really shows the experience that Ecoxotic has gained during that time. Coming in a mixed-color Marine and an all blue Actinic…

Friday Smorgasbord: Aquarium Sage, coral disease, why oceans matter, killer catfish and classy bettas

Takashi Amano, the master of modern planted aquarium design and a man we have much respect for, was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal. The “Sage of Aquariums” mastered the art of taking an aquarium and creating lush landscapes…

Giant Clams live in fields at the Bolinao Marine Laboratory, Philippines

Tridacna gigas, the largest of all the giant clams can grow to four feet across and even if most specimens never reach more than three feet long, the weight and size of these bivalves is massive. Once extinct in the Philippines,…

Porites fontanesii is a new coral species from the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden

There’s a new species of small polyp stony coral out of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden called Porites fontanesii. The new Porites was just bestowed with the formal description of its unusual colony shape and growth form. Unlike truly…

Hybrid cleaner goby (Elacatinus oceanops x E. figaro) available again from ORA

The hybrid cleaner goby is a one of a kind aquarium fish which doesn’t occur in nature (as far as we know) Resulting from the cross between a male blue neon cleaner goby Elacatinus oceanops and a female Brazilian endemic Yellowlline goby, Elacatinus…

Breaking: NOAA announces the proposal to list 66 stony coral species as endangered or threatened

Just hours ago NOAA and the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) made public their intention to move forward with the proposal to list 66 species of stony corals under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). You may recall that three years…

Red Dragon Acro: large wild Acropora carduus colonies photographed in Bali

The reef aquarium hobby has never enjoyed so much diversity and abundance of maricultured stony corals but with so many of these species being highly sought after, it seems like all we know of many of these species is how…

Phyllodiscus semoni mimic anemone is almost cooler than its stony coral model

If we were swimming along a reef and saw this crazy creature we’d lose our cool at the sight of this incredible mimic anemone. Looking every bit like its stony coral model, this Phyllodiscus semoni is nearly indistinguishable from the…

Ocean Nutrition Coral food and marine Nano Pellet review

Besides gauging how much coral polyps react to the addition of coral foods to the aquarium water, there is not a very practical way to quantify how good these coral nutrition products perform. After all  you could add a few squirts…

LSS Laboratory debuts clip-mount for Kessil A150w and A350 LED spotlights

The Kessil family of LED spotlights including the A150w and A350 have been popular reef aquarium lights in America since their introduction and now that they’re spreading in Japan, Lss Laboratory has seen fit to dress them up. While Kessil…