Good Karma Friday: share some goodness about one of your favorite products or companies

I was having a great conversation with Chris Clough of Aqua Illumination last weekend and we were talking about really relying on online user reviews and information on products to make a purchase. Whether its a new pump for your…

True personifer angelfish come to the US from West Australia

In the late 90s, the personifer angelfish from Australia was split up into two species: the Classic ‘personifer’ angelfish from East Australia was named Chaetodontoplus meridithi and the angelfish from West Australia was given the nominal species name of C.…

Io LED light from Pacific Sun is 75 watts of controlled photons

The Io BTEX LED  is a smaller iteration of the Phobos and Deimos do-it-all LED aquarium light from Pacific Sun. Like the other LED lights names after celestial bodies, the Io features top of the line Cree XP-G and XP-E…

Reef Builders Personal Shopper: amazing reef life you can buy online right now

Sometimes we find ourselves browsing the amazing WYSIWYG of our livestock sponsors and we are just flabergasted at what can be found in a single day. Some of these specimens are top of the line, and you’ll feel it at…

Chinese tanker left a mark on the Great Barrier a kilometer long and a trail of toxic paint

We’ve been giving you coverage of the Chinese Tanker that ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.  New reports show that the oil spill from the tanker may not be the most ecological damaging part of this incident.  Dispersants used…

New AI Wave LED tube coming soon from AquaIllumination

The AI Wave Beam LED lighting tubes are a very exciting new supplemental LED lighting from the company which has so far focused on a core, high performance LED light. The AquaIllumination light is one of the most elegantly built…

Reef Aquarium Rock Wall Aquascapes can be interesting

Reef Aquarium ‘Rock walls’ have gotten a bad rap over the past , as Adam Blundell recently pointed out. This reputation is not necessarily undeserved as there are plenty of rock walls that are unappealing, flow stopping, detritus collecting piles…

Ornamental marine fish culture getting shot in the fin with research funding

The ornamental marine fish culture, while very valuable to us aquarists, is typically viewed as unimportant to the world.   The primary concern of the world is NOT putting fish in people’s aquariums, but instead, putting fish into people’s stomachs.  When…

Updates from Ecoxotic’s comfy couch at MAX

Well the internet BLOWS here at MAX but thanks to our friends Ecoxotic who have shared their Sprint connection, we have a few updates from MAX. The afternoon traffic is picking up a little bit and there are plenty of…

Marine Aquarium Expo: Fun for the whole family

The Marine Aquarium Expo (MAX) is coming up this Saturday and Sunday (April 10-11) at the Orange County Fairground and will be packed full of goodness for the whole family. Besides the typical array of really cool reefing gadgets and…