Photographing corals never gets old. And every time I look down at a vendor’s shallow Frag Tank of Greatness and point my camera’s lens on yet another amazing coral, I ask myself “How?” How is this bottomless pool of colorful morphs of different coral species [...]
So much to cover, so little time. I would have to write well into the late fall to cover everything I witnessed at the Reefapalooza 2019 NY show, so, or the sake of brevity, I was forced to skip some and feature the ones I personally liked the most… REEFS.COM [...]
How do you draw a large crowd at Reefapalooza when you are a Spirulina farmer? By having live Mysis shrimp at your booth, naturally. AGCore Technologies is a company based in Cranston, Rhode Island that specialized in growing Spirulina, the protein-rich superfood both fish in our tanks [...]
Photographing corals never gets old. They are like human irises in that each individual one is unique, unlike any other from the same species or, in many instances, even from the same colony. Take zoanthids for example- observe any colony of these beloved soft corals and you won’t find two [...]
Walking down the long, aquamarine-hued aisles of the Reefapalooza 2019 New York show floor, one can get overwhelmed by the sheer number of vendors representing all different branches of the aquarium industry. Some are ordinary and down to business, some features a new, unique product to [...]
The Italian manufacturer Hydor needs no introduction; anyone that has been in the hobby long enough has stumbled upon a piece of their extensive collection of aquarium equipment at some point in their reefing life(Koralia, anyone?). Their catalog expanded recently with the introduction of a [...]
True story: the AquaticLife booth was my absolute first stop at the 2019 Reefapalooza New York show. Reason- I wanted to see, in the flesh or, well, aluminum, the successor of the widely popular Hybrid T5 Light that the company introduced a few years ago, and found that it isn’t really a [...]
I regard reef shows as an excellent practice ground for macro reef photography and when it comes to the abundance of photographic subjects, it can’t get better than Reefapalooza. The first day of the show, I took only straight up macro pictures, using a Nikon DSLR camera paired with a 105mm [...]