Textured nitrile gloves are a must have for serious reefers

Textured nitrile gloves are a must have for any reefer, particularly if you are a serious fragger or for just doing maintenance around the tank. There are a few vendors our there selling textured disposable gloves are pH neutral and…

These Awesome ‘Micromussa’ Are Not Like The Others

For several years we’ve enjoyed a really cool coral that comes mostly from Western Australia which is both beautiful and intriguing. While these do look distinct from ‘typical’ Micromussa that we’re used to, I just assumed it was a different species,…

Top 5 New Species of Wrasses of 2017

Two thousand seventeen was a super busy year for us to keep up with all the new species being described from tropical coral reefs. There was a multitude of novel creatures getting formal classification from tropical coral reefs that included…

Making The Hobby Fun (And Keeping it that way)

I admit it, I am still a big kid at heart. And this time of year I often show this side of my personality in many ways. I still find fun, in just about everything this time of year. I…

Getting a closer look at the GBR’s mysterious “Blue Hole”

The mystical “blue hole” discovered this fall on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is breathtaking, but National Geographic recently explored the depths, capturing this breathtaking feature on video. Besides just being beautiful, scientists look to these formations as a great resource…

Five Reef Critters That Come ONLY From Western Australia

Australia is home to so much exotic marine life which differs wildly from coast to coast, including the southern seas which are filled with alien cold water fish. However while most of Australian aquarium animals comes from the Great Barrier…

Maxspect Recurve LED Review Video

Since the beginning or (reefing) time, coral growers have been brought up to use powerful main lights with accessory lighting to introduce actinic blue light – think a metal halide with VHO actinics on the sides. This notion has changed…

Reef, River & Reptile’s Sweet All in One Shroom Reef Tank

There’s something so comforting and familiar about seeing a nice patch of colorful mushroom anemones, especially red & purple Discosomas and green Rhodactis. It reminds of us of the early days of reef keeping and many of the first successful reef…

Can giant fans save the Great Barrier Reef?

The Australian government is invest over $2 million AUD on giant fans to bring cooler water to the heat-stressed Great Barrier Reef. The proposal, set to deploy these ReefMix systems next year, would leverage eight large, slow-moving, solar-powered impellers that…

Zetlight A200 WiFi controller allows you to control many devices

The Zetlight A200 Wifi Controller replaces the company’s older A100 controller that allows you to control a bunch of Zetlight equipment beyond lights like your pumps, skimmers, wavemakers and more all through its Horizon app for Android and iOS. The…