Poll: Are you going to MACNA 2014?

It is that time of year again. Your social media feed is chock full of posts about people talking about heading to the pinnacle reefing event in North America — MACNA. Now in its 26th year, the Marine Aquarium Conference…

The Pros and Cons of a Bare-Bottomed Marine Tank

If you’re in the process of planning and setting up a new saltwater aquarium, you’ll need to give some thought to the type of substrate you’d like to use. It may seem counterintuitive, but one of your options in this…

Seachem releasing new thicker version of Reef Glue

Seachem took its sweet time releasing a coral fragging glue, Reef Glue, to the general aquarium market but now they are on the ball with a new an improved version. This weekend at MACNA in Denver Seachem will unveil a…

Orchid Dottyback: Hardy, Peaceful, and Just Right for Reef Tanks

Captive breeding of marine fishes has been a boon to our hobby in any number of ways, one of which is democratizing access to formerly really pricy species such as the orchid dottyback (Pseudochromis fridmani). While I wouldn’t characterize the…

Goldfish have been hacked to battle in Street Fighter

There’s a lot of cool things you can do with aquarium fish, you can teach them to play soccer, they can be trained to drive a remote controlled car, but playing video games has been beyond our fishy friends, until…

Reef Generation St. Martins aims to crowdfund artificial reef

The Reef Generation St. Martins project is an Indiegogo crowdfunding project whose aim is to build an artificial coral reef off the coast of St. Martin’s Grand Case to grow coral for reef restoration and develop educational programs. This project will be unique…

A Recap of the MBI Workshop 2014

Hosted by the Marinelife Aquarium Society of Michigan (MASM) and the Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI), and held July 19, 2014 at Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, this was the fifth workshop they have offered dealing solely with…

Tunze NanoStream 6020 pump hands-on and first impressions

We just received one of the first runs of the highly anticipated Tunze NanoStream 6020 pumps. After seeing them at Interzoo we were eager to get our hands on one. The 6020 and 6040 are new to the Tunze NanoStream lineup…

Who knew Chris Turnier is so talented at painting and carving aquarium fish?

The aquarium hobby is blessed with talented painters like Kaitlyn Cameron and Nate Wilson but the big surprise today is that one of our pioneering aquarists is also gifted with the brush, and the chisel. Chris Turnier who has paid his…

5 Reasons to Understock Your Marine Aquarium

Over the many years I’ve kept marine aquariums, guests in my home have more than occasionally noted the relatively low number of specimens, particularly fish, in my tanks. You could say it’s been a hallmark of my fishkeeping career to…