Comical crustaceans for your coral cushions – the Periclimenes shrimps

There are more than just skunk cleaner shrimps and blood shrimps in the world of aquarium crustaceans. Many are delightful and colorful little creatures that go unnoticed even to the trained reefer. It is imperative that a reef tank should…

The country’s hottest coral vendors will be in force at ReefStock 2013

If you are as excited about ReefStock as we are, allow us to stoke the fire a bit more by introducing the amazing list of coral dealers coming to Denver in a couple of weeks. Short of MACNA or Reefapalooza,…

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Reef Builders Pick: Five additional amazing nano reefs

Last week we covered five of our favorite nano reefs, but since some worthy aquariums didn’t make it to the list here is a follow up post with an additional five nano aquariums. Equally amazing, these nano reefs are very…

J’Field Yeo’s cube from Singapore is a cute collection of corals

This cube reef from Singapore comes awfully close to a flow destroying, detritus collecting rock wall but overall the system looks great and is more than worth checking out. At roughly 24 inches cubed (65cm^3) this square aquarium is far…

A look into the Aquascapers’ Eco-Gorg lab

Aquascapers is the latest project by Coral Morphologic, serving as the new retail and wholesale medium for the company’s livestock. Aquascapers also expanded its livestock selection. In addition to Coral Morphologic’s stunning selection of corallimorphs, Ricordea, Zoanthids, mushrooms and flower…

Aquascapers launches Eco-Gorgs and a whole menagerie of Caribbean reef corals

Aquascapers is a renewed, re-imagined retail outlet from Coral Morphologic with a new vision for delivering the finest selection of Caribbean corals. Not to be confused with Aquascaperz, Aquascapers is where Coral Morphologic wants you to go from now on…

AquaLEDs.de’s AquaPad are impossibly thin, much cooler and brighter than you’d think

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/42987799[/vimeo] When we first saw the AquaPad LEDs from AquaLEDs.de we were convinced that these anorexic LED fixtures with no real heat shedding qualities would be pretty dim, run very hot or both. Thankfully, we got to see a large…

Incredible red Goniopora going strong after three years and multiple fragging

Gonioporas are gorgeous and ubiquitous, and almost every reefer has encountered them at some point in time. Many of them come in crazy colors such as Red, Green and even Blue. Yet they are considered one of the tougher LPS…

Coral V-Power and Coral-Energizer new coral foods from Preis Aquaristik

Coral V-Power and Coral Energizer are two relatively new coral foods from Preis Aquaristik. Both Coral V-Power and Coral Energizer have been available in Europe from dealers of Preis Aquaristik products but a new U.S. distributor is making these dry…