Over the years, as you probably noticed, we have a thing for deep water Acros. Our love for them has never stopped growing mainly because they are just the best Aquarium Acropora because they just bloom and thrive in reef…
The Biorb Earth is Giving us All In One Envy
The Biorb Earth from Oase is an All in One vivarium so advanced that it’s really giving us AIO envy in regards to other offerings on the aquarium side of the air-water interface. This being a saltwater aquarium website you…
Hawaii harvesting of tropical fish for aquariums approved
The saltwater aquarium industry has won a small victory in the battle to reopen Hawaiian fish exports. The Board of Land and Natural Resources – the agency that protects Hawaii’s natural resources – approved an Environmental Impact Statement on October…
WaveReef Safe-Fill can top off your Auto-Top-Off
Equipment manufacturer WaveReef has released three ATO devices all armed with a triple-level sensor. The Nato 3M and SMT-03M are both variations on a common theme, comprising a water level sensor that sits in the pump chamber of your sump,…
Fishial Project uses artificial intelligence to identify fish
A not-for-profit organization is aiming to use artificial intelligence to help ID the planet’s 34,000 fish species. The Fishial project has been set up by Thomas Wye of the Wye Foundation, to identify fish by photograph automatically, with the aim…
Rare Whitemargin Anemonefish imported from Madagascar
Several pairs of Whitemargin Anemonefish, Amphiprion cf. latifasciatus, have arrived in recent Madagascan shipments to the UK. Being offered in mated pairs these rare imports immediately catch the eye, firstly because of the huge, nearly six-inch-long females and secondly because…
Reef AccuDose is TMC’s new programmable dosing pump
Tropical Marine Centre has upped its dosing game with the launch of the Reef AccuDose programmable dosing pump. Small in size at under 3″ square, this single doser head is seemingly equipped with everything a reefkeeper wants from an auto…
Gorgeous NORWEGIAN Reef by Tomas Kaumer
We recently visited Norway and had the opportunity to visit one of the most enthusiastic reef aquarists in the country, Tomas Kaumer. It was a bit surprising to enter an unassuming home tucked in the Norwegian countryside to find an…
Rhodactis bryoides: The shroom that thought it was an anemone!
Thanks to our friend and colleague Joe Rowlett’s book Indo-Pacific Corals new insights were provided on many different coral families. One new development I found particularly interesting concerns the taxonomy of corallimoprh since not much new work has been done…
Koi Moorish Idol is an art house aberration
A one-of-a-kind Moorish Idol has been made available on the website Marine Collectors. Named a Koi Moorish Idol, this eye-catching example of Zanclus cornutus displays four colors instead of the usual three, with far more orange and far less black…
