Coral crabs aid ailing corals, combat disease

We as aquarists have always believed that coral crabs are mostly positive in their interactions with stony corals. The colorful smooth shelled ones are pretty and probably keep Tegastes and acro eating flatworms at bay, and we know that they…

JBJ Unibody LED review – simply one of the best aquarium lights for corals

As long as the JBJ Unibody LED aquarium fixture has been around we’ve been using one on our personal 28 gallon nano reef tank. This aquarium has been using exclusively LEDs for more than three years, many of the corals have grown…

Wyoming White clownfish coming soon from Sustainable Aquatics

Platinum perculas have been around and widespread for a long time but we can’t say the same for the angelic looking Wyoming White ocellaris clownfish. Originally produced and developed by C-Quest in Puerto Rico, the numbers of Wyoming White clownfish…

Kessil A350 review, just about the best stand alone LED spotlight for aquarium corals

By almost any metric, the Kessil A350 and A350w are some of the best and most feature rich LED spotlights ever made for growing corals in aquariums. Following the widespread success of the Kessil A150w LED spotlights, the A350 and…

Video of Casper the white tang shows how startlingly awesome this fish is

Casper the white tang is an iconic all-white specimen of Zebrasoma flavescens which is the pride and joy of World Wide Corals in Orlando Florida. A couple years back when Casper was a greenhorn to aquarium life, we got a chance…

Finnex Ray 2 LED strip light has two lanes of white or blue diodes

The Ray 2 LED striplight coming soon from Finnex is an interesting LED aquarium light which straddles the line between a striplight and a fixture. At just one inch thick and three inches wide with tapering edges, the Finnex Ray 2 LED…

Buffalo LFS robbed — thieves grab cash, dry goods and corals

A Reef Creation, a local fish store in Buffalo, NY, was robbed earlier this week with the thieves getting away with a reported $20,000 in cash, dry goods and live corals. The two burglars, described as white males in their…

Dual chip indigo LED soon to have its 410 and 420 nm rays tested over corals

Pictured above is a prototype dual chip indigo colored LED with not one but two light emitting diodes under the same primary optic. It’s pretty hot right? It’s really nice having at least one light in the reef aquarium LED…

Purple Purple Tang and White-barred Asfur Angelfish are not your average Red Sea imports

For quite some time now the Hawaiian Yellow Tangs and Scopas Tangs have been hogging the limelight in the aberrant department for Zebrasoma surgeonfishes. Piebald yellow tangs, tricolor Scopas tangs and even pure white yellow tangs with fancy super-hero names given!…

One day, we might grow corals with frickin’ laser beams.

The hot new lighting technology is LED. But are Laser Diodes in our future? BMW announced in a press release, that it intends to replace LED headlights with Laser diode headlights in the future. The reason for the future switch…