Explore Far Away Islands With The New Google Earth

New Google Earth I just spent three hours exploring the new Google Earth and I am absolutely hooked. If you didn’t already know Google Earth launched a huge update, introducing a feature called “Voyager”. You can now take virtual tours around…

So Many Tanks…So Many Possibilities…
When you’re considering your first reef aquarium, one of the things you probably need to give more thought to is…your aquarium! And now, more than ever, there are multiple options. For your first reef tank, a realistic option might be…
Easy Affordable Dive Trip To Malta
Scuba Diving In Malta By: Jeroen Den Burger In 2015 me and my dive buddy Dirck traveled to Spain to dive at the Medes Islands. It was our first dive trip of our affordable diving project and as you can…
An Unforgettable Close Encounter With Centropyge abei

As you may have noticed in the last couple of weeks, we’ve been touring the east coast of Australia with stops at many notable aquarium businesses. In addition to seeing a ton of great reef stores in Sydney and Brisbane,…

Working On Early Life History Stages Of Corals
By: Adriana Humanes Coral spawning takes places once per year during the late night, hindering research development on early life history stages. In order to do serious science, researchers need to have access to great amounts of material (gametes, larvae,…
Pelagic Blackwater Diving With Pro photographer Jeff Milisen

Pelagic Blackwater The translation of the word PHOTOGRAPHY from Latin would be; “to draw with light”, and our guest produces astonishing portraits of seldom seen animals in the pitch-black waters off the Kona coast of Hawaii. We sat down with…

Nothing Better Than A Nice Bare Bottom

Sand Bed or Bare Bottom? In the aquarium hobby, one of the most significant debates when building your reef tank is to decide a bare bottom or to use a live sand bed. Let’s discuss the benefits and disadvantages of…

Looking Forward To The Future Of The Aquarium Hobby

Things I’m Looking Forward To While going through some old books and magazines I came across a poster for MACNA from over twenty years ago, it made me laugh as the topic of my talk was “The Future of the…

New Species: Cyphastrea salae From Lord Howe Island, Australia

Cyphastrea salae is the newest species of hard coral to be described from Lord Howe Island. The discovery of a new species, suggests that the fauna of this isolated location in the Tasman Sea off south eastern Australia is even…

Halichoeres chrysus: A Hardy Little “Banana with Fins” That’s Just Right for Beginners

Known by a variety of common names—banana wrasse, canary wrasse, golden wrasse, yellow coris, et al—Halichoeres chrysus is hardy, readily available, reasonably affordable, well suited to modest-sized systems, and among the better choices for beginners. Of course, owing to all…