Sola NightSea LED Dive light exposes fluorescent reef life

The Sola NightSea LED Dive light is a collaboration between the masters of underwater lighting Light & Motion and the pioneers of fluorescence viewing and imaging, NightSea. Built on the super high performance Sola 1200 LED dive light, the Sola NightSea…

Antillogorgia takes over as genus of Caribbean sea plume gorgonians

The Sea Plume Gorgonians of the Caribbean Sea are more unique than previously thought, having recently been reclassified into their own genus, Antillogorgia. The genus Pseudopterogorgia formerly contained the Caribbean Sea Plume gorgonians as well as a host of other…

Hands on with the multicolor I Touch LED Aquarium light fixture

A few years ago, it was hard to believe that in 2012 led lighting would be so close becoming the standard for reef lighting. For many people, one of the main drawbacks to adopt to this new energy saving technology is…

Leptoseris skeletons specialized to double-dip into into available light

The amazing stony coral genus Leptoseris is far from staying out of the spotlight since researchers have just teased out one of its mesophotic tricks. Fort eh longest time scientists including Rich Pyle have worked on projects to investigate how Leptoseris could grow so…

Australian Leopard-wrasse Quarantine Technique

Class:                         Actinopterygii Order:                         Perciformes Family:                        Labridae Genus:                        Macropharyngodon Species:                      choati, Randall, John E.  1978 Common Names:       Choati Leopard-wrasse, Australian Leopard-wrasse Of all the Leopard Wrasses one can acquire for their reef aquarium Macropharyngodon choati is…

Friday Smorgasbord: Tiny people, electric paper, fish paintings and more

The first Friday of February and winter is in full swing for much of the US and heading into Groundhog Day (who needs six more weeks of winter?) and Super Bowl Sunday we have a few intriguing bites of smorgasbord goodness. Leading…

Real Reefers John Coppolino and Rob Brynda will deliver ReefStock’s Sunday presentations

Two days of ReefStock means that this year we get an extra day of speakers. Complimenting ReefStock’s Saturday presentations, on Sunday it will be John Coppolino and Rob Brynda giving the hand-picked speaker presentations. John Coppolino is a world renowned expert…

Cheap Chinese LEDs lead to aquarium fire at Arizona community center preschool

For many aquarists, a rite of passage is buying some cheap version of a product to save a few dollars only to regret it in the end when it fails. For most of us this means a pump that stops…

Predatory Ricordea yuma comes to life in time lapse feeding video

We are graced today with a second exceptional marine aquarium video, this time featuring a Ricordea chomping on some pelleted coral food. We’ve all seen videos of LPS corals mowing down pelleted food, Scolies are exceptionally fun to do this with since…

Video tour of the Triton Reef and more will leave your jaw on the floor

You know we feature a lot of different reef tank videos and usually they display only a single slammin reef tank. This is a different matter altogether as Mr. Jawsee has seen fit to take his video camera along for…