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…
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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…
Premium Aquatic’s German 1-2 Glue ain’t your grandpa’s reef epoxy
Two part epoxies are gross, smelly, cumbersome, they takes forever to cure and half of the time the bond doesn’t hold. For this reason we have more or less abandoned using two part epoxies and try to use super glue…
Boost your color with green light, an additional source of fluorescence excitation
For years and years we’ve seen a hobby dominated by white lights, with blue actinics. Be it halide, pc, vho, led, or anything else; the usage of a bright white light with the enhancement of blue light (about 420 to…
Uh oh: Ships using Great Barrier Reef as ‘rat run’
That Chinese Tanker which we reported about earlier apparently was sneaking the coral reefs as a “rat run”. A Rat Run is when a ship takes a faster route to save time and fuel costs even if the section in…
The Enduring Allure of “Chalices”: What’s the Deal?
I don’t know if it’s just one of those things that happens when you get older- you start questioning everything in the hobby: Conventions, norms, and trends are but a few of the things you ponder. I’m not grumpy, believe…
