[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mBA92kUb9U[/youtube] Nearly two years ago when MACNA was held in beautiful Orlando Florida, we had the good fortune to visit a gorgeous aquarium store called Ocean Blue Aquarium. The newly renovated store feature an impeccable layout of fish, corals and…
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Gryphon’s AquaSaw is only for serious coral cutting applications
The Gryphon AquaSaw is an aquarium approved bandsaw which has been overhauled to be the best coral-cutting machine this side of Mars. Once upon a time we used to cut up stony corals with a plain hand saw, and then…
Gloupe’s reef is a French chef-d’oeuvre, a modern coral masterpiece
There are aquariums that look fantastic and stunning, and then there are reef aquariums that are so jaw dropping gorgeous that they have us gasping for air enchanted by its beauty. Gloupe’s Reef is most definitely, one hundred percent in…
Rod’s Reef is a Sunlit, LED Supplemented, Gyre flowed coral tank From Australia
Rod’s awesome reef is an anthias-populated, sunlit, LED-supplemented, Gyre-dominated coral aquarium with massive SPS colonies. On paper, an aquarium like this really doesn’t get any better, not even to mention the location of the reef. With all the extremely strict…
Echinomorpha nishihirai is the latest wild chalice coral to be sighted
Echinomorpha nishihirai is a distinctive looking chalice coral which can be quite a showstopper. Often eclipsed by the much more readily available Echinophyllia, Oxypora and Mycedium chalice corals, Echinomorpha is distinguished by a prominent, large central corallite and very few, widely…
Friday Mega-Smorgasbord: Squid arms, robofish, shark feast, sea slugs, coral planting, living undersea, AEFW hit the high seas and gigantic clumps of whale poo
We have a great post lined up for this Friday with everything from amazing to just odd and something in between. We lead off this edition with a breaking story about deep sea squids that actually tear its arms free…
Reef Octopus Stackable Neck Extensions released by CoralVue
CoralVue has released stackable neck extensions for Reef Octopus protein skimmers giving you the ability to improve your current skimmer by adjusting the dwell time or to allow for higher internal water height settings. We saw a prototype of…
Northernmost coral reef discovered near Japan
Researchers have found what is the highest latitude coral reef to date off the coast of Japan. The reef was found at 34° N in the the bay between Tsushima and Iki Islands by Hiroya Yamano and his team. That…
Remarkable Galaxea colony corallites and polyps filmed in the wild
Not sure what is going on with this unusual looking colony of Galaxea, but we’re glad that Bruce Carlson took the time to film it. Unlike the typical Galaxea fascicularis that we see in the aquarium trade, this Galaxea colony has extremely long…
Kessil A350 review, just about the best stand alone LED spotlight for aquarium corals
By almost any metric, the Kessil A350 and A350w are some of the best and most feature rich LED spotlights ever made for growing corals in aquariums. Following the widespread success of the Kessil A150w LED spotlights, the A350 and…
