It’s been a little while since we’ve heard from NanoBox Reef but with ReefStock looming, they’ve taken the lid off a new array of LEDs that offer impressive new levels of efficiency. The new board for NanoBox Reef fixtures uses a combination of…
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Liopropoma lunulatum offered in the pink of health for the first time by De Jong Marine
Liopropoma has been a much talked about genus here, especially in the last few months. With Liopropoma fasciatum claiming fish of the year and L. aberrans making a scene in Singapore, our obvious love for this genus is poorly concealed. We even have a pretty…
The Horned Bannerfish: Little Color but Lots of Character
When choosing fish species for our marine aquariums, bright coloration is often a highly sought-after characteristic. But there’s also something to be said for species with more subdued coloration that just happen to have really interesting morphology. One such species…
The mature reef tank of Bachir Daas
This video of the reef tank of Daas Bachir may not be the highest quality but hot dog does it show some expansive and luxurious coral growth. We had the opportunity to visit and check out Bachir’s impressive coal tanks…
We can never get enough of the Tattoo Jawfish
If there’s a shortlist of marine reef fish that always capture our attention when any news or media surfaces of them, the Tattoo Jawfish is definitely on it. Only known from deep habitats of the Northwest Pacific, the Tattoo Jawfish, Opistognathus…
Sclerophyllia margariticola is a new species of ‘Mini Scoly’ from the Red Sea
Sclerophyllia margariticola is a new species of small, solitary LPS coral from the Red Sea recently described in the journal Systematics and Biodiversity. The genus Sclerophyllia was first erected in 1879 and it was resurrected to include this new species as well…
2014 Alpha Cone 250 review, still one of the best workhorse skimmers in the U.S.
At the height of the beginning of the cone protein skimmer craze, the Vertex Aquaristik Alpha Cone skimmer was one of the most high profile releases in the genre. ATB definitely was the first company to introduce American reefers to…
Tridacna costata, a close look at this rarely seen Indian Ocean clam species
Compared to corals, there are only a few giant clam species we get to appreciate in the home aquarium so it’s really exciting when we get new species like Tridacna noae and Tridacna ningaloo, but it’s also super cool to…
Toledo Zoo Aquarium Renovation—Update 14: Fish Start to Arrive, Grand Reopening Set for March 27
Salties who have been following our updates on the Toledo Zoo Aquarium renovation these last few years will be excited to hear that the ambitious, $25.5 million project will soon be coming to fruition. Read on for the very latest…
Can you believe some people actually used this LED light?
While beginning to clear out the fish room this weekend we stumbled this interesting ‘relic’ from the dawn of LED lighting over our aquariums. This weird slab of aluminum and large light emitting diodes is the ALED or ‘Aquarium LED’ which…
