Deep Blu eProfessional, the company better known for interesting glass aquarium designs and more recently a suite of aquarium accessories, has released a new little LED spotlight which hits a sweet intersection of price and value. The SolarFlare Micro is…
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Awesome Fish Spotlight: The tiger damselfish, Chrysiptera annulata, from the Western Indian Ocean
Sometime this summer we found ourselves floating on the surface of a shallow Indian Ocean near shore reef when we spotted something bright and unexpected – a brilliant black and white damselfish the likes of which we had never seen…
Thieves in Ohio make away with all of Dirk’s equipment – $1,000 reward if found
While these certainly aren’t the stories we like hearing about or reporting, from time to time we learn about theft within the industry. This time, it hits pretty close to home. We were just informed that while on schedule to…
Beware These 5 Pitfalls When Buying Used Equipment for Your Marine Aquarium
There’s no question that setting up a saltwater aquarium can be a costly proposition. One way to help defray those initial expenses is to buy used equipment and materials when possible. There’s always someone upgrading to a new system, moving…
Mature adult Spotcinctus is a knockout clownfish
It’s been over four years since ORA unleashed the Spotcinctus clownfish onto the aquarium hobby and you know what that means? That means there are some gorgeous, beautiful adult specimens of this designer clownfish which are showing the strain’s full…
Kamoer 3 channel doser gets picked up by Deepwater Aquatics
Deepwater Aquatics has imported and begun distributing a high quality multi-channel aquarium dosing pump made by Kamoer out of China. Kamoer is an unknown brand in the aquarium scene, but they are well known in the medical and laboratory fields for…
Purple Sea Plume Gorgonians should be in way more reef tanks
For awhile now I have been trying to educate more aquarists about gorgonians and how they deserve a spot in their personal reefs as much as other corals do. You can see my more comprehensive article on keeping photosynthetic gorgonians.…
BlueHarbor acquires a new pair of the super rare Cirrhilabrus squirei
BlueHarbor, whose shop is now flooded with rare fish from the Southern Pacific, is also home to two rare fairy wrasses from the Coral Sea. This is the newest member of the highly perplexing “lunatus” species complex that is also…
Aqua Medic Live is set up for success
Sometime this summer Aqua Medic of North America began expanding its business from just hard goods to the import and wholesale of live corals with a new division called Aqua Medic Live. Aqua Medic itself is a well-established brand and…
Aqua Medic DIYs Kessil LED spotlights into the classic OceanLight fixtures
The idea of retrofitting a “competing” product into your own line of reef aquarium lights is preposterous to some, but that’s exactly what Aqua Medic of North America has done. Since setting up shop to import and wholesale live corals,…
