Profilux expansion cards from GHL allow for sanctioned hardware modification

If you are a proud owner of a GHL Profilux aquarium controller computer, you will now be able to modify the hardware with GHL sanctioned expansion cards. Like other top end aquarium controllers, the GHL Profilux III and its derivatives…

Shallow water diving in Lord Howe puts you within reach of amazing neotropical reef fish

If you ever find yourself diving in Lord Howe for whatever reason, chances are you’ll encounter a wild McCulloch’s clownfish and there’s nothing that will allow you to take it home. Not even a Master Ball. The video right at…

Man arms shark with laser, sets free in ocean

Dr. Evil may have his request finally met after marine biologist Luke Tipple attached a 50-milliwatt green laser to a lemon shark last month. The “evil plot” was hatched by Wicked Lasers, a Hong Kong-based company that produces some of…

Wild hybrid Chaetodon from Aqua Terra looks like an inverted wrought iron butterflyfish

Hybrids in the butterflyfish realm are few and far between, but if there ever were to be a gang of promiscuous species, it would definitely be the members of the pearlscale butterflyfishes, otherwise known as the Xanthurus complex. The Xanthurus…

Cree XT-E Royal Blue Gets a spec bump, now up to 5 watts each

Rejoice DIY LED builders! Cree, in their mighty engineering prowess has seen fit to give their popular XT-E royal blue LED a spec bump recetly, letting you squeeze even more from an already powerful LED. This update puts the XT-E…

JBJ expands LED lighting into more sizes of NanoCubes

A few years back JBJ offered an LED version of the 28 gallon JBJ Nano Cube and the company is adding more LED aquariums to the JBJ Nano Cube LED series family with the 6, 12 an 24 gallon versions.…

Pacific Island Aquatics unleashes pictures of a beautiful real life Crosshatch X Bluethroat triggerfish hybrid

Pacific Island Aquatics adds another feather to its cap with this beautiful adult hybrid triggerfish. You may remember LiveAquaria‘s stunning specimen earlier this year of the same rare hybrid between the Crosshatch triggerfish and the Blue Throat triggerfish. This hybrid…

EconLux SolarMeter is best suited to measuring blue and UV light

The SolarMeter from EconLux is the first new light measuring tool to ‘compete’ with the near monopoly that Apogee’s PAR meter and UV meter have in the aquarium world. We use the word compete in quotations because there are two…

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National Geographic showcases University of Miami underwater photography contest winners

National Geographic is showcasing the winning entries from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science underwater photography contest. The annual event brings a plethora of unique undersea images from amateur photographers who gain no more than 20%…