Eerily cool statues drown in Cancun

In a follow-up to a previous post, the Cancun and Isla Mujeres Underwater Art Museum has added three new sculptures to their enormous collection of underwater art.  The three new additions are entitled Dream Collector, Man on Fire, and The…

ZooMed Ocean Sun 10k and Actinic 420 T5 bulbs

Zoomed, manufactures of reptile products has released Coral Sun T5 lights in either 10k or actinic 420 colors. Apparently Zoomed thought it wise to come out with the T5 lamps after realizing T8 and T12 lamps would be going the…

New Caledonia enlists Australia to aid in reef protection

We’ve all heard of the Great Barrier Reef but did you know New Caledonia is home to the second largest reef in the world? The French Pacific territory recently made a call to Australia in hopes of tapping into the…

Reef Capable HO LED prototype from Marineland shows some light at the Global Pet Expo

Hold on to your corallites folk because all that promise of mass market LED from marineland’s Double Bright is about to get a little closer to reality as we sneak a peek at the HO LED prototype at Global Pet…

The blue-spot butterflyfish that holds a lot of promise for the future of captive reared aquarium fish

This petite blue spot butterflyfish, Chaetodon plebius, from Sustainable Aquatics may only be 1.25″/3cm long, but this little guy is a window into a very big future of captive reared fish. Sure it’s nice to have captive reared fish like…

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…