By Jake Adams There is something very exciting about catching that fleeting moment when pelagic spawning reef fish release their gametes. Catching the act of pelagic spawning is very much like seeing a shooting star: you sometimes know when the event is about to...
By Jake Adams One common comment that I frequently receive from prospective buyers of LED reef lights is a fear that the technology is moving so fast that a significant investment today will be quickly eclipsed by new lights and technology in the near future. Although...
By Jake Adams Corals are fascinating creatures to reef hobbyists for a number of reasons. Sure corals are beautiful, interesting and fun to grow, but they also have some amazing qualities that set them apart from most living things in our daily and reefing lives. For...
By Jake Adams The blue and yellow wrasse, Anampses lennardi, is an exceptional species of reef fish that stands out in a family of many beautiful, colorful fish. Also known as Lennard's wrasse, A. lennardi is an Australian reef fish that was all but unknown in the...
By Jake Adams The masked angelfish, Genicanthus personatus, is an idolized reef fish which is as beautiful as it is expensive and rarely seen. The stunning marble-white body coloration of the masked angelfish is accentuated by a perimeter of color that gives the...
The international pet product trades show in Nuremberg, Germany this past May was a smorgasbord of new marine and reef aquarium products. Some of these new products for aquariums were unique, some creative, some were great and others were really bad.…
Sometime around a year ago, I started hearing about this new salt mix from ESV that reefing friends Jason Edward of Greenwich Aquaria and Dave Lackland of Atlantic Reef Aquaculture had begun using.…
I want to share with you some information about a very different five-gallon nano reef that is only 6 months old. Although it’s contents could fit completely into a single 5 gallon bucket, the number of reef aquarium laws which have been broken with it might one day trickle up to the largest of reef tanks.…
With the passing of another year comes the passing of a whole decade of modern reefing decade behind us. The pace of things may seem steady to the casual aquarist but when I think back to what reef tanks looked like and how they were run back in 1999, the contrast is quite apparent.…
When mini-reef aquariums became more popular in the saltwater aquarium hobby, so too did the shrimp, clams, other invertebrates and smaller more delicate reef fish that thrive in the mini reef environment.…