Cubic Home Jellyfish Aquarium shown in a normal living space.
Last year I blogged about a new prototype jellyfish aquarium from Cubic in the UK and now it is coming to the states in a matter of months via the new UK distributor Reef-Eden International.
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Kessil’s A150W LED aquarium light packs a lot of photons into a small, compact package and is a great buy for anyone looking for a quality LED fixture for their tank. Indeed, Kessil has remained a popular light choice for reefkeepers based on Marine Depot’s Aquarium Lighting listing with Kessil as one of the Top Selling Brands for many months running.
The West African Seahorse, Hippocampus algiricus, is not well understood. Little is known about its habitat and lifecycle even though over 600,000 of these animals are traded annually on the market with most of them ending up in China for Chinese medicine.
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The talk began shortly after Hurricane Sandy subsided. Reef organizations started mobilizing members to help out reefkeepers devastated by the massive storm. Many reefers were without power and heat for multiple days and many even lost entire households in the aftermath.
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Photographer Solvin Zanki captures some of the most amazing photos of plankton we’ve ever seen.
A 3D printed reef structure that could help restore reefs around the world.
Reef Balls, for those of you who have not seen them before, are artificial concrete reef structures that are placed on damaged reefs in order to provide new habitat for coral, fish, and other aquatic life.
Palythoa variabilis, brown zoanthids. Photo by Brian Gratwicke / Flickr.
We have covered how potentially dangerous fragging zoanthids are to reef hobbyists. Certain species are loaded with palytoxin, a naturally occurring toxin that is one of the most deadly natural toxins known with an LD50 of 300ng/kg in mice.
Archer fish. Photo by Feline Groovy / Flickr.
New research now shows that the fish generate this power externally using water dynamics rather than with any specialized internal organs. The research, published Oct.
A photograph of the newly discovered Betta mahachaiensis displaying aggression.
The new species, named Betta mahachaiensis, was discovered by a team of biologists led by Chanon Kowaspupat of the Institute for Innovative Learning, Mahidol University in Thailand.
The tiny Denise’s pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus denise). Photo National Geographic wallpaper.
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that Google had teamed up with Catlin Seaview Survey and produced the first ever underwater street view for select coral reefs around the Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii, and the Philippines.