Hopstop is Aqua Medic’s take on jump prevention

Jumpers are the bane of every rimless tank owner’s life and today we found another DIY solution aimed at preventing that. The quirkily named Hopstop is simply three two-inch wide polycarbonate strips that you attach to the front and sides…

Sander Piccolo is the original nano protein skimmer

Foam fractionators have come a long way through the ages and reacquainting ourselves with this diminutive one admittedly brought a smile. It’s a Sander Piccolo by Erwin Sander GmbH in Germany and goes back as far as the last century.…

Tunze Multi Tube Holder Secures Dosing Lines for only $12.99

The Tunze Multi Tube Holder is an ingenious take on one of the most useful but often overlooked aquarium accessories, the basic dosing line holder. We’ve seen these simple gadgets developed into dozens of different versions which are usually of…

Streamline Water Changes using the Bucket Hose Holder Thingy

We’ve all been there before, you’re siphoning some water out of a tank and getting a little too focused on removing the detritus from the hard to see reaches of the aquarium and the end of the hose falls out…

Golden Ocean Invests in PNG Fishermen in Another Round of Net Training

For many companies the term ‘sustainable’ is nothing more than window dressing, a buzzword to use in their marketing with only the most rudimentary effort towards achieving goals that can be tenuously described as low impact. As we’ve seen from RVS…

New ‘Variety’ of Takeuchi Angelfish Hybrid

Genicanthus takeuchii is an angelfish so rare that it practically unknown in the aquarium hobby so it doesn’t even show up in lists of holy grail saltwater fish. Despite being one of the largest species of swallowtail angelfish and being…

Echinopora forskaliana, a Rare and Unique Coral from the Red Sea

Echinopora forskaliana is an uncommon species of stony coral that we’d never heard of other than seeing it in passing in Veron’s Corals of the World. But now thanks to a pair of great photographs by Andrey Ryanskiy we can…

FragEL LED is Specifically Engineered for Commercial Coral Lighting

The FragEL is a unique new LED lighting fixture with a distinctive appearance quite unlike anything we’ve seen in the aquarium world before. The unusually long 36″ FragEL inherits somewhat of a ‘wide striplight’ form factor but its fan-less construction…

Reef Flare bar side mount kit allows 180-degree rotational adjustment

Every LED light bar should have a tank mounting solution and Reef Factory have just launched theirs.

Kessil Landscape Lights Hint at Possible Future Aquarium Offerings

If you needed any more convincing that Kessil is the dominant leader in the spotlight form factor for biological LED illumination, you needn’t look any further than their new ‘Landscape’ offerings. Building on the powerful and capable A360X and A500X…