Welcome to the first Friday Smorgasbord of summer! This week’s roundup is interesting but may be a gloomy reminder of our negative influence on the oceans. First off is a report that documents what we already suspected — that corals…
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The Zebra Tang has come to US and UK aquariums
The Zebra tang, aka Acanthurus polyzona is a very rare “book fish” which we’ve covered before from a distance, but this story is about some good news for aquarists. After about two years of poking, prodding, begging, pleading and insisting,…
Multichannel Multichip LED are coming from MarineReefLED and LED Group Buy
Multichip LEDs have been available for reef aquarium lighting for some time now but the narrow spectrum and lack of controllability has prevented them from gaining widespread use. If colors and control is what has been holding them back, a…
Captive bred mandarin gobies now available from Indonesia
If you needed any further evidence that captive breeding of marine fish is in a Golden Age right now, here’s another tidbit to further the cause. Although most wild mandarins come from Indonesia, now we may soon see captive bred Synchiropus…
CEAB booth at Zoomark 2013, Italian company dedicated to lighting
Our path inside Zoomark, after leaving the Sicce booth, continues with CEAB booth, a well established italian company dedicated to lighting fixtures. The passion for lighting has remained as much as Interzoo, and so we were able to resume the…
Digiman is back with a breathtaking new Liopropoma latifasciatum as well as a charismatic Sailfin Jawfish
Familiarity has made us jaded with the beautiful and charismatic genus – Liopropoma. L. carmabi and L. rubre were once the creme de la creme species that everyone were dying to own, but in recent years they have become more widely…
An Introduction to Reef Aquarium Lighting
Saltwater aquarists who choose to take the plunge into reef keeping quickly come to an interesting realization: The lighting used in such systems is of paramount importance. Whereas lighting in fish-only systems is primarily an aesthetic concern (for the most…
Aqua Medic Cubicus is the latest all-in-one system with Aqua Medic goodies
The latest from Aqua Medic is their all-in-one Cubicus which comes with some very nice equipment you don’t have to worry about upgrading, unless you have some power hungry or high maintenance corals. The Aqua Medic Cubicus measures 50 by…
MAME tank saver can protect an aquarium from earthquakes!
The Mame tank-saver platform is an incredible new device from the company which has brought us a host of other inventive aquarium devices. The MAME Nano Skimmer, all-glass Mame Overflow and Mame LED are all groundbreaking products but a platform…
ProVolitans & EasyLED make a truly professional grade LED light
At first glance the ProVolitans LED light appears to be woefully plain, simple and with an alarming lack of apparent heatsinking but we’re glad we gave them some closer inspection at Aquarama 2013. What seems to be a simple LED…
