August 13-19th
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Innovative Marine Hydrofill ATO system couldn’t be any more user-friendly
Innovative Marine is beginning the rollout of their new Hydrofill auto top off system and every detail indicates that this is one product that will truly live up to the company’s namesake. A four-point sensor system in the Hydrofill ATO…
Cobalt Aquatics OxyPro is a new air pump design for modern aquarium needs
The OxyPro air pump from Cobalt Aquatics is the first really new design for an air pump that the aquarium hobby has seen in a really long time. Although fundamentally the OxyPro uses the same sort of diaphragm pumping mechanism…
Head-to-head review of the Vertex Omega 150 protein skimmer
The Vertex Omega 150 cone protein skimmer is an exciting new design which is hiding a lot of cool tricks in plain sight. At first glance it appears to be yet another well-performing cone skimmer with a durable Sicce needle-wheel…
5 Techniques for Catching Fish in a Marine Aquarium
At one point or another, every marine aquarium hobbyist is faced with the necessity of capturing and removing a fish from a fully operational system—perhaps because the specimen is bullying tankmates, the victim of another specimen’s bullying, sick or injured,…
Top 5 stories from Aquarama 2013
We are hitting prime aquarium show season here with SuperZoo wrapping last week, MACNA right around the corner, and followed by Reefapalooza in October. We figured it was prime time to do a quick recap of the top 5 stories…
Hydrofill ATO Pump heavy duty diaphragm top off pump by Innovative Marine
The Hydrofill ATO pump by Innovative Marine is the first real new diaphragm water pump to arrive on the aqarium market in a really long time. For years aquarists needing a low volume, high pressure water filling pump had to rely…
LSS adjustable stand for in sump protein skimmers
Countless times while trying to adjust a new in-sump skimmer to a specific water level we’ve struggled with “too high” or “too low”, and it’s not exactly simple to change water height in most aquarium sumps. The newfangled skimmer stand…
Photoblepharon palpebratus is a unique glowing oddball for your deepwater biotope
The flashlight fishes are a very unique group of light emitting fish that are not often seen in the trade. These fishes are well known for the photophores (light emitting organ) found below the eye, which harbours bioluminescent bacteria, allowing…
Tanked learns a hard lesson from hasty fish stocking
When you rush in this hobby, things go wrong — really wrong. This is evident in the news that one shark is dead and another wounded in a fiasco for the Animal Planet‘s Tanked team at a Coney Island, New…
