Xaqua DNA SALT + MINERALS is hitting the market from this Italian company combining high-quality dry salts and liquid mineral supplements to deliver a one-two punch for your next water change. Each box will contain five single-dose packets of Xaqua…
Diving In Ustica, An Abundance Of Fish And Friendliness
By: Dirck Zadeh – The Divespot Team Ustica. A little volcanic island 70 kilometers north of Sicily in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The waters surrounding this 8.1 km² patch of very rocky land has been a marine reserve since 1986. The Area Marina…
A Visit to Elos headquarters in Italy
When I think of Italian companies whose designs fire up my imagination, the names Lamborghini, Ferrari or Maserati immediately come to mind when I think of cars, or Armani, Zegna or Versace when I think of clothing. In addition to…
The Amazing Reef Tanks of Italy
As I have mentioned numerous times in the past, I consider myself to be a lucky person. And one of the ways this luck has manifested itself, is that I have been fortunate to get to see one of my…
Visiting the Piacenza Pet Festival in Italy
Like food, soccer and politics, Italians take their aquariums and actually all of their pets seriously. While we think it’s pretty good that we have several thousand people attend many of our events, that pales in comparison to the Piacenza Pet…
Seachem Tidal power filter, made by Sicce
The Tidal Power Filter is the first ever filter by Seachem, and it’s being made by Sicce in Italy. The Seachem Tidal filter will be available in three sizes with a full set of modern features that makes this one of…
Oceanlife looking to extend reach in North America
Italy-based Oceanlife is making a larger push in the US and North American markets brining its line of reef-related products from Europe and is looking for distributors. The company has been operating for nearly 10 years and produces products like…
Marta Spano’s one year old reef tank puts all others to shame
Earlier this year we were invited to be a part of Goccia Blu‘s PetsFestival event in Picenza and before the talk, we toured a handful of different stores and private reef tanks in Tuscany. On one particular day we toured…
Italian reefers are really into phytoplankton reactors
On our recent reefing tour of Italy we expected many things, great food, stylish reef aquarium setups and an overall easy-going laid back atmosphere. We got to see all of those things but what we didn’t expect to see was so…
What is going on with this weird captive bred clownfish?
Pictured here is a very peculiar looking color pattern of a captive bred clownfish which got us doing more than a few double-takes when we spotted it in Italy. This “two and a half barred” clownfish looks more or less…
