Justin Muir, who owns and runs City Aquarium in Brooklyn, N.Y., has a unique business creating top-notch visual aquariums for clients around the New York City area. With celebrity, professional athlete and Wall Street moguls as clients, Muir’s clients often…
The Reefstock Allstars have some Thorny Competition in the Muzac Biz
[youtube width=”600″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpMOrX1fzGM[/youtube] We thought reefers were the only geeks to melodically rhapsodize about the wet life. We thought wrong. Nothing like ichtho-molectular-bio-genetic-research parodies of Timberlake and Timbaland to bring aquatic geekdom to a whole new level. While it’s not…
Chris Campbell’s fish tank is a welcome throwback to the days of pure fish keeping.
Once upon a time, fish keeping was the main event of the marine aquarium hobby and invertebrates and corals were barely even a fringe; had blogging been developed earlier this site would have been called ‘Fish Keepers’ or something like…
Bubble King Double Cone Super Marine 250 featured in video
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA4HkjN2wVw[/youtube] The double cone Super Marine line of Bubble King skimmers from Royal Exclusiv are the newes top end skimmers from the German skimmer and pump manufacturer. If a well designed cone protein skimmer can reduce turbulence and…
Juvenile conspicuous angelfish still looks perfect after a year in captivity
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THiYHZy8Ny4[/youtube] This juvenile conspicuous angelfish, Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus, made our weekend when we spotted it in Chris Campbell’s 500 gallon fish only display aquarium. We first visited this conspic angelfish over a year ago when he was being quarantined…
Sicce Syncra HF hands on video shows the features of this massive pump
It was hard to tell the size of the Sicce Syncra HF water pumps from yesterday’s post, but the new official hands-on video from Sicce USA leaves no doubt that these pumps are monsters. Although the external shape of the…
Romantic Box Crabs star in the cute short film “Chivalry”
[vimeo width=”680″ height=”380″]http://vimeo.com/19147588[/vimeo] This short film about Box Crabs filmed at Stingray City in the Caymans features the kind of intimacy that we usually think is reserved for warm and soft animals. You may think that your aquarium invertebrates are…
Scandalous fish mating videos abound on Fukukancho’s YouTube channel
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1-2htW8rUM[/youtube] Yes, this marine fish breeder’s jaw dropped when Jake sent me a link to what he had discovered in the dark corners of the interwebs. No glossy, airbrushed static photographs, no sir. Video after hardcore video of…
Sicce Wave Surfer pulses Voyager water pumps
The Sicce Wave Surfer is a new electronic propeller pump wavemaker intervalometer which allows you to get some different flow patterns with Sicce Voyager pumps. Designed to accommodate one or two of the unusual Hexjet Voyager 1-4, or more conventional…