Face of thorny oyster (Spondylus americanus) on HD Video

Coral Morphologic looks at the thorny oyster (Spondylus americanus) and captures it on their HD Video. Since Coral Morphologic is making this HD video a weekly affair we couldn’t resist sharing this with our dear readers. “Unlike most shallow-water oyster…

USHIO Introduces G12 Base Metal Halide lamp in Aqualite™ Series

Ushio has released their popular lamp color, Aqualite™ Series in a G12 type bulb. “This new single ended 150W lamp design in 14,000 Kelvin harnesses the ability to align the lamp to a parabolic reflector axially, leading to more efficient…

Ecoxotic Mystic Cube Aquarium silhouetted

Either Ecoxotic has a new LED light which shines everywhere but the tank or this is a sneaker image of some fancy new aquarium we haven’t seen yet. Just when we were getting comfortable pigeonholing Ecoxotic into being just an…

Tropic Marin BIO ACTIF salt reviewed

Tropic Marin’s new BioActiv Salt mix has finally landed on US shores and retailers have been getting it out to customers for over a month now. We were sent our 25kg test bucket over several months ago. Here is what…

B-Ionic Seawater mixing pump is not just clean, it’s immaculate

This Tunze Nano Stream’s only job has been as a mixing pump for ESV’s B-Ionic 4 part Seawater system. So far this 6025 has mixed six batches of 5 gallons of water and one batch of 25 gallons and it…

A Paradigm Shift for the “Postmodern Era” of Reef Keeping

An old expression goes, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” In my humble opinion, that expression does NOT apply to our hobby anymore. Sure the fine art of reefkeeping has stayed basically the same as it…

Fauna Marin’s new Ultra LPS Grow + Color

Fauna marin has a new LPS food formula that is said to increase the growth of your LPS corals. Fauna Marin lists several additional features of this food versus others including a “Soft granule” size which “protects the corals when…

NeoMarine Kalibrate saltwater ‘premix’ from Brightwell makes seawater in bulk

NeoMarine Kalibrate is a new saltwater mix which includes everything but the Sodium Choride. NaCl makes up close to 80% of the dissolved material in natural seawater so when aquarium salt is shipped around, a significant amount of the cost…

‘Seahorses and their Relatives’ by Rudie Kuiter is the new Seahorse Bible

When veteran sealife author and photographer Rudie Kuiter puts together a book on a group of fish you can be quite assured that he will take the bar and raise up more than a few notches. The first aquarium-relevant book…

ReefStock 2010 pictures part 3: a fisheye view

Unless you were one of the few dozen captive bred fish brought to ReefStock, chances are you didn’t get to see the show from a fisheye lens. The tight crowds made it difficult to capture how densely packed the floor…