“Ocean Drifters, a secret world beneath the waves” is a short film about plankton written, produced, and directed by Dr Richard Kirby with narration by Sir David Attenborough. Ocean Drifters reveals how the plankton have shaped life on Earth and…
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…
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…
Poseidon’s Feast and OceanMagik from AlgaeBarn
We met with the team from AlgaeBarn at this years ReefStock event to learn more about their Poseidon’s Feast copepod mix and OceanMagik live phytoplankton. On their own, each product will feed your reef, but together they can help create a live food…
What are phytoplankton and zooplankton, really?
In the saltwater aquarium and reef tank hobby, we talk about feeding our corals and small fish with phytoplankton and zooplankton quite often. However, we discuss these various types of creatures as little more than food items, but the phytoplankton…
Live Rock Hitchhikers: Tunicates (Sea Squirts)
Among the more fascinating creatures that commonly make their way into marine aquariums as stowaways on good-quality live rock are tunicates, or sea squirts. In terms of visual interest, these animals can be quite dazzling, with some exhibiting spectacular coloration…
Don’t Get Burned by Flame Scallops!
Mention beautiful bivalves for the marine aquarium, and the various tridacnid clams (the so-called giant clams) will probably come to mind. Likely, the flame scallops of the genus Ctenoides will too. However, while the tridacnids have a fairly decent survival…
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…
Friday Smorgasbord: Saving reefs with antacids, fish molars and more
Ocean acidification and rising temperatures are taking its toll on our oceans’ reefs, but one team from Australia is testing a way to solve the issue by treating the water with an antacid. The team from the Carnegie Institution for Science…
Marine Bacto Plankton from Tropic Eden is a new food for fine filter feeders
Bacto Plankton from Tropic Eden is a new food for filter feeders consisting of 15 types of live bacterioplankton. The particle size of Tropic Eden’s Live Marine Bacto Plankton ranges in size from 0.2 to 2.0 microns (1000 microns =…
