Coral Morphologic wins a grant to start painting Miami as a Coral Reef City

Throughout many parts of Miami there’s a whole lot of coral growing at the water’s edge and no one knows that better than the coral-huggers at Coral Morphologic. We’ve written extensively about Core More over the years: first with some…

Tons of reef aquarium deals around for Black Friday 2011

Turkeys are being snagged up like mad in the grocery stores so that mean just one thing – crazy deals on all your reefing goodies starting on Friday! Our annual tradition is to bring you some great Black Friday holiday…

Apet Inc. demonstrates some serious skills in the design and installation of commercial scale filtration

Apet Incorporated is a large wholesaler of live animals in the Chicago area with a significant amount of space devoted to aquatic livestock. Although Apet has been in business for thirty years, their new facility is only two years old…

AVAST Marine CS1 cone skimmer kits now available in smokey black, gets recirc option

The AVAST Marine Works CS1 cone skimmer kit was already one nifty, affordable option for a skimmer and now its available in the stealthy “black pearl” cone design as well. We saw this option at Reef Stock in March but…

Slightly used monster RK2 300PE protein skimmer looking for a new home

Oculus Aquatics is looking to unload one beast of a skimmer at a great price.  They are currently in the process of re-engineering some of the coral systems out in the warehouse and are unloading an RK2-300-PE skimmer that is…

Innovative Marine’s Nano 16 aquarium actually has something good going on in the back

We’ve already seen the sexy single bent-glass front of the Nano 16 and Nuvo aquariums by Innovative Marine and we know that they won’t cost too much either, but we were definitely withholding an impression of the entire kit until…

Reef-A-Palooza right around the corner – Jake’s speaking and Reef Builders’ lounge will be open

With the Fall season in full swing, that means just one thing — its almost time for Reef-A-Palooza in Orange County. Happening on Saturday and Sunday, October 22 and 23, RAP is the largest marine aquarium event in the world…

Coral Reef Spain opens up a fancy new marine livestock wholesale facility on the Iberian peninsula

Western Europeans rejoice, we’re looking at you Spain and Portugal, because the prolific Coral Reef Spain aquarium company that brought you their own salt and a handful of thoughtfully designed retail stores has now opened up a modern marine livestock…

Machado de Sousa’s Coral Maternity is a quite impressive garage fish room

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToZtYTy9qIE[/youtube] When you think of a fish room, a long line of 20 gallon-ish aquariums on 2×4 racks usually come to mind. These systems do certainly get the job done, one just needs to look at Joe Lichtenbert‘s old fish…

Reeflo’s Blowhole gets tested as an inline tank filler pump

When we first spotted Reeflo’s Blowhole at Reefapalooza last year, our first thoughts went to the Blowhole pump being able to empty vats and fill tanks with lots of power in a form factor that works for this application. So…