When companies aim to make a budget friendly or value conscious brand they often have to make a lot of compromises to get the total cost down in the final product but this trend doesn’t seem to apply to Maxspect’s…
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A Close Look at Captive Bred Regal Angelfish
Regal angelfish are one of the most unique of all angelfish being the only species belonging to a monotypic genus, Pygoplites, and also the only angelfish to have two described subspecies, a rare designation among marine fish. It was nearly three years…
ReefStock Denver is just Three Weeks Away!
ReefStock is a unique flavor of reef aquarium event home grown in the Colorado Rockies since 2008 to really focus on what makes aquarium conferences an aquarium party you won’t want to miss. Like many aspects of our lives we…
Building an Emergency Marine Livestock Holding Setup
If you keep any kind of aquarium for long enough you will inevitably come across the need to hold orphaned livestock in a pinch. A couple fish or a few corals can usually fit into existing setups but if you…
满15岁的再保险ef Tank Setup
Moving a running fully set up reef aquarium can be a very stressful event for both the keeper and the reef animals but you’d be surprised how easy it can be with lots of prior planning, and a degree of…
Ecinu CO2 Control Device is So Much More than a Regulator
Ecinu is an interesting company out of Korea which just dropped our jaw with some very exciting and original aquarium hardware. Along with a submersible VR camera and an automatic fish feeder their digital CO2 control device is unlike anything…
Building the Smallest Reef Tank Possible – a ‘Planck Reef’
Small reef tanks can be a lot of fun, allowing reefers to experiment with different ideas and techniques with a much smaller investment of time and effort. For years reef builders have been wondering how small we can go and…
Tropic Marin Halts Production of ‘Turkish Blend’ of Pro-Reef Salt Mix
Turkish Blend usually engenders a connotation of fine tobacco or strong coffee but the term is coming to mean something very different for one flavor of Tropic Marin’s popular saltwater mixes. Mysterious coral problems started arising from the reefing community…
Fragging Flowerpot Corals with Aquatic Art [Video]
Flowerpot corals are a mysterious group of reef builders that have perplexed reef aquarists for the last several decades. Not all ‘flowerpots’ are the same as they fall under three different genera including the closely related Goniopora and Bernardpora and the superficially…
We Finally Got Our Hands on the Brazilian Flameback Angelfish
The Brazilian Flameback Angelfish, Centropyge aurantonotus, is one of the two species of pygmy angelfish in the Caribbean but the common ‘pygmy’ angelfish is infinitely more common in the aquarium hobby. This fish looks quite similar to the African flameback angelfish,…