Reef Blizzard is Brightwell Aquatics’ range of coral foods that offer a wide selection of food types and particle sizes so reefers can fine tune their coral feeding regimen. Earlier this year Brightwell added four interesting new foods to the…
Plankton Bloom All in One Live Coral Food Sustainable Aquatics
Live foods are one of the best, most nutritious, and clearly the freshest option to feed a reef tank but who’s got the time to feed corals their meat and vegetables separately? Plankton Bloom is a new live food product…
Make a clean start with Algae Barn’s Ultimate Refugium Starter Pack
Setting up a new refugium typically meant scooping up some free algae from a “friend” and hoping it was clean, full off all the good things and free of all the bad things — and we all have heard about…
Apex Pods is the Newest Live Food from Reef Nutrition
Apex Pods is a brand new live copepod from Reef Nutrition which is a pure culture of live tropical copepods. Unlike the uber popular Tigger pods, Tigriopus californicus, the warm water Apocyclops panamensis are a species of copepod which can actually become…
PolypLab New Live Foods, Tigriopus californicus & Tisbe biminiensis
Tigriopus californicus – if you’ve been reefing for even a short time this is probably the only species of copepod that you know by name. First introduced to the aquarium hobby by Reef Nutrition’s Tigger pods, this species has become…
Paul B’s Unique Perspective on Keeping Mandarins
Hobby pioneer Paul “Paul B” Baldassano is not your grandfather’s reefkeeper (though he is old enough to be your grandfather!). In fact, Paul B’s perspective on just about any aspect of the marine aquarium hobby is quite distinct from anyone…
Calan-Eeze Review: a Nano-Krill for all Aquarium Fish and Corals
Calan-Eeze is a new freeze dried offering from Two Little Fishies which is an ideal size for many species of fish, corals and invertebrates. Frozen Calanus copepods have become increasingly available to aquarists, especially in frozen form, but Calan-Eeze is the…
Calanus copepods to replace Cyclopeeze in PE Mysis twin packs
For over a decade Cyclop-Eeze has been the staple food for feeding small reef fish and certain types of corals in this specific particle size range. However in recent years the harvest of Cyclop-Eeze from the Arctic lake in which…
Observations on an unknown acropora copepod parasite
We hate discovering coral parasites of any kind in our aquariums but at the very least there’s a modicum of surprise and intrigue when we encounter something new. The last time this happened we were dealing with the unusual Skeleton Erosion…
The future supply of Cyclopeeze is not guaranteed
Ever since it was first introduced, the super copepod that makes up Cyclopeeze has been one of the most favored aquarium foods for feeding small and young fish, corals, and an ingredient in a huge variety of foods. We’ve been…
