Aquarium Systems A la Carte marine aquarium foods

A La Carte sia  new suite of whole foods from Aquarium Systems that aim to meet the nutritional needs of both fish and corals. Aquarium Systems’ new A La Carte foods consist of three different types of dried seaweeds, two…

OnesAqua Air Breeder manual air pump provides circulation without electricity

The OneAqua Air Breeder is a manual air pump that won’t get aquarists all that excited at a trade show but when power is unavailable, you’ll wish you had one. The simple manual air pump simply screws into a standard…

ORA Gold Nugget Maroon Clownfish makes a big debut at Aquarama 2013

Aquarama 2013 brought some real specialties to Singapore like the Gold Nugget Maroon Clownfish from ORA; they are one of the coolest platinum clowns we’ve ever seen. The body is covered with pure white color except for the face and…

The best discus of Aquarama 2013: Symphysodon like you’ve never seen it

In order to be a well rounded musician, no matter your specialty, it helps to be familiar with the nuances and techniques of other genres. Likewise, in order to bea better reef aquarist it helps to know a little something…

Captive bred mandarin gobies now available from Indonesia

If you needed any further evidence that captive breeding of marine fish is in a Golden Age right now, here’s another tidbit to further the cause. Although most wild mandarins come from Indonesia, now we may soon see captive bred Synchiropus…

Hands on with the world’s first oval cone protein skimmer from Skimz

Skimz has a knack for going out of its way to differentiate their products with this year’s hook being a cone protein skimmer with an oval footprint. The idea of making a oval base protein skimmer screams “gimmick” from a…

Incredible freshwater fish like this jeweled betta are impossible to ignore

Reef Builders is clearly a specialist in the marine and reef aquarium side of the hobby but we still have lots of appreciation for incredible freshwater fish. This year’s Aquarama fish competition featured so many unbelievable fish specimens that we…

ProVolitans & EasyLED make a truly professional grade LED light

At first glance the ProVolitans LED light appears to be woefully plain, simple and with an alarming lack of apparent heatsinking but we’re glad we gave them some closer inspection at Aquarama 2013. What seems to be a simple LED…

Sicce Shark ADV Filter uses magnetic coupling to make maintenance a breeze

It’s hard for internal aquarium filters to stand out but Sicce’s Shark ADV does just that with what else? Magnets. We’re all familiar with umpteen different ways to take an internal aquarium filter apart, usually of the locking, screw or…

Cannon LED Floodlight takes the Ecoxotic spotlight to new heights

Our first look at Ecoxotic’s new Cannon LED Floodlights at the Reef Systems Aquarama booth was a really pleasant surprise. Although rated for the same 100 watts of light using a multichip LED package, the Cannon LED Floodlights are a completely different…