This past weekend we attended the Fragstock coral farmer’s market at the Denver Downtown Aquarium. Along with many amazing corals and some neat, new products, we spied this interesting arrangement of home made reef rock. The maker Rich had arranged…
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Reef Creature Identification Tropical Pacific coming soon for the love of inverts
Reef Creatures Identification for Tropical Pacific invertebrates is about to give us a whole lot more insight to the inverts of the biggest Ocean on earth. Humann and DeLoach are some of the most prolific underwater photographers and authors bringing…
Evolution LED delivers great PAR and color with caveats
The Evolution LED may be just another Chinese black box OEM LED but dang it sure does look good over a tank. With 119 one watt LEDs and a 2:1 ratio of blue to white LEDs, the Evolution delivers respectable…
C-Quest Is Coming Home!
The news spread quickly this morning as C-Quest announced that it will be moving from it’s longstanding location in Puerto Rico to the Addison’s home town of Wheatland, Wyoming, roughly 1 hour north of Cheyenne. C-Quest is arguably the world’s…
Gridwheel added to new ATI PowerCone
ATI is sporting a new gridwheel design to its new ATI Power Cone protein skimmer we touched on recently. Dubbed the Gitterrad, this gridwheel is one of the handful of new designs to the Sicce PSK 2500 pump helping to…
Flex LED from ReefBrite gives you twilight or moonlight, on the fly and on the cheap
The Flex LED from ReefBrite is a flexible LED strip that can be easily added to almost any existing aquarium lighting setup. Whether you have a pendants hanging above your reef or a fully covered aquarium canopy, The ReefBrite Flex…
Reef Jewelry of sterling silver and pearl are like miniature sculptures
We spend a lot of time talking about reef aquarium geekery but this weekend we encountered something really special at the Golden Colorado Fine Arts Festival. One jewelry maker, Sheppard Hill Designs from Paonia, CO was displaying a whole case…
Chlorophyll F, a newly discovered photosynthetic pigment uses infrared light
Chlorophyll F is a photosynthetic pigment which is able to capture light energy in the infrared spectrum. Chlorophyll F has an absorption peak of 706 nanometers, a segment of light which was previously considered to weak to drive photosynthesis. The…
Carefully neglecting your reef so you can do other things
The following is a contribution from Mark van der Wal, a personal friend of ours in this hobby for over ten years. Congratulations to Mark on having a perfect little baby girl this week, Elise Catherine van der Wal, a…
Giesemann Aquaristic thinks its first to market with T5/LED light
Recently, A Giesemann distributor in Australia took out an ad in a large national print publication. The ad (pictured above) states that the Helios light is the first hybrid fixture on the market. Or at least that is what Giesemann…
