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…

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…

AlgaGen PhycoPure SeaPro, Frozen Phytoplankton For Your Reef Tank

PhycoPure™ SeaPro AlgaGen PhycoPure™ SeaPro is a frozen phytoplankton concentrate that instantly activates and becomes live as soon as it’s added to salt water. The frozen cubes can be added to your aquarium as you need it, and as long as they are kept frozen, they…

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…

Aquaholic Aquaculture offers REEFreshments Live Feeds

Aquaholic Aquaculture is a relatively new live feed aquaculture facility in Florida, dedicated to providing aquarists with 100% aquacultured nutrition for your aquarium. Their REEFreshment lineup of live feeds include live phytoplankton, blackworms and rotifers. Aquaholic Aquaculture was founded in April…

AlgaGen PODS to feed your corals and everything in between

AlgaGen was on hand this weekend at ReefStock and we got the scoop on their newest product, the AlgaGen Apocyclops PODS. AlgaGen PODS contain a mix of live aquacultured copepods, microalgaes and purified seawater, and the PODS mix is used to…

Blackworms Mean Better Health for Marine Fish

Live worms are about the best thing we can feed to our fish. How do I know this? Am I just making it up so I have something to write? Actually, no. Live California blackworms have been used for ornamental…

How to Handle a Hunger-Striking Saltwater Fish

Having a fish that refuses to eat anything offered—or having a specimen that had been eating suddenly lose all interest in food—is a problem virtually every marine aquarium hobbyist can expect to encounter at one time or another. While such…

Green Mandarinfish: Gorgeous, Good-Natured, and a Very Finicky Feeder

Many coral reef fishes are renowned for their spectacular coloration and patterning, but there’s one particular species, commonly available in the marine aquarium hobby, that arguably surpasses them all in this regard. I’m talking about the green mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus).…

AlgaGen’s four new copepods from a Breeder’s Perspective

ReefPods™ are a new line of live calanoid copepods from AlgaGen which we first wrote on about two weeks ago.  These new species of ReefPods copepods include Acartia tonsa, Pseudodiamptomus pelagicus, Parvocalanus crassirostris. and an unidentified species AlgaGen is labeling Tangerine…