Ecotech Marine Radion G4 Pro is one of the highest rated aquarium products I have ever reviewed. I consider it a game changer, a big step to LEDs’ total dominance in the aquarium lighting branch of the industry. Today, more than a year after my review got published, I still hold that [...]
In another success story from our friends at Poma Labs, the captive bred and reared Bellus Angelfish Genicanthus bellus has become a reality. It’s a true milestone achievement and more proof that captive breeding of marine fish is the future of our reef hobby. Genicanthus is my favorite [...]
Neptune Systems recently dropped a bombshell announcement on their new Official Neptune Systems Apex Community Group on Facebook, shedding some light on their current development schedule. There is some exciting news in the update and I’m here to break it down for you: 1. Voice control [...]
LED light emitters glittering over a reef tank’s water surface, providing life giving energy to the corals and other photosynthetic animals beneath, is as much of a typical sight nowadays as metal halides hanging over reef aquariums were in the nineties and early 2000s. The debate over the [...]
Early morning on Saturday, the 3rd of March, Randy and I left our home base in New York and went on a 2.5 hour journey to the neighboring state of Connecticut to attend the 11th Annual New England Frag Farmer’s Market. The event, organized by the E.O. Smith Coral Project and hosted, as in [...]
I am sitting down with a keyboard in one hand and a glass of ruby liquid in the other to write this short but (I hope) to the point review. I have to admit up front, I truly enjoyed testing the two products that are the topic of this article, for several reasons, all of which I will point out in [...]
It looks like this year will bring an abundance of new products for the aquarium market, and the segment of the industry that will be seeing the lion’s share of fresh innovations is reef-specific LED lights. I’ve been testing one of the newest LED panels for some time and wanted to share with [...]
Throughout the years that I’ve kept marine aquariums, photography has been the driving force fueling my passion. In fact, one of the main reasons I decided to set up a saltwater tank in the first place was to photograph corals with my (then) newly acquired macro lens. One of the first corals that [...]