Many aquarium professionals who either run a fish store or do aquarium service and maintenance, generally don’t have much of a personal fish tank. This phenomenon is generally summarized as ‘The Cobbler’s children wear no shoes’ and it’s not unique…
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Not All Fish Are Cultured Equally
By: Michael Judson Ever since “captive bred” labels started popping up all over clownfish tanks, captive breeding has remained one of the flagship methods of reducing the ethical controversies plaguing the aquarium industry. Lessening what we take from the wild while…
Focustronic Wants To Change The Way We Think About Lighting
Over the years the aquarium hobby has seen a number of drastic changes in ideology. Wet/dry filters transformed how we think about biological filtration, protein skimmers changed how we think about bioballs as nitrate factories, while gyre flow and propeller pumps…
4 Reasons You Should Own A Wetsuit For Scuba Diving
My Love Of Wetsuits If you’re a regular reader of ReefDivers you will know that I love wetsuits. The obsession started back when I was a divemaster. I feel in love with that feeling of zipping up my wetsuit, hoping in the…
Hawaii Anti-Aquarium Bill Gets Vetoed, But The Fight Isn’t Over!
Today a small subset of the saltwater aquarium hobby is rejoicing at the announcement that Hawaii Governor David Ige vetoed the baseless and discriminatory bill which would have phased out ornamental fish collection from Hawaii. Meanwhile the rest of us…
This Lemonpeel Angelfish Is Old Enough To Buy A Beer!
The saltwater aquarium hobby is chugging along and with it, some very old aquarium veteran fish are continuing to thrive, many of which are older than our youngest aquarist. So anytime someone says they’ve got a fish over twenty years old,…
60 Watt Equivalent LED Bulbs Selling For $1.50!
I just couldn’t believe my eyes when I walked into my local Goodwill thrift store and saw a huge pile of new LED lamps for sale. It wasn’t the mountain of lamps that got my attention, but the $1.50 price…
Beginners Guide To Diving Roatan
So you’ve decided to go scuba diving in Roatan, or perhaps you are still considering where to spend your holiday. This guide will give you an introduction to diving in Roatan for certified and non-certified divers. Getting There Fly There…
Rubber Reefs? Rubber algae helping restore reefs in Med
Rubber synthetic algae that mimics coralline algae is being used to help create an artificial reef to help aid in reef restoration in the Mediterranean. By installing small rubber-like structures the team hopes to mimic Ellisolandia elongata and the way it moves,…
Purple Monster Jawbreaker Shroom Redefines Upscale Shrooms!
What can we say about this incredible new Purple Monster jawbreaker Shroom? This fantastic corallimorph is almost unthinkable in color and pattern, and raises the bar for ALL Jawbreakers and shrooms in the reef aquarium hobby. This fantastic shroom is…
