Josh Saul
  • Josh Saul is a technology consultant for large global banks. He has been involved in the aquarium hobby for 20 years and has been SCUBA diving for more than 30.

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Aquaculture and Beyond

Aquaculture and Beyond

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgS4bRIb--w This video of some high end Taiwanese breeding facilities is really interesting.  If you can get over the Total Recall-esque voice overs, you'll get a peek behind the scenes at some major commercial facilities focused mostly...

Moon Jellyfish’s EON

Moon Jellyfish’s EON

Moon Jellyfish is a new venture looking to offer the tranquil beauty of jellyfish tanks to the educated consumer.  Their new EON System is a complete solution for a potential jellyfish tank owner.  Unlike some of the other manufacturers, the EON does away with the...

Asterospicularia at Live Aquaria

Asterospicularia at Live Aquaria

For all the soft coral geeks, here is something you don't see too often in this region. Asterospicularia is an octocoral from Indonesia and a few Pacific Islands that is rare in the trade.  A poor shipper like many xeniids, this stalky and bushy specimen has landed at...

The Coral Curio Trade

The Coral Curio Trade

Anyone who has been to Florida knows of the plethora of "Shell Shops" that litter the highways.  Offering a wide variety of shells and coral skeletons, these stores prey on tourists who don't know anything about what they are buying.  While coral skeletons can indeed...

Can you swim in your tank?

Can you swim in your tank?

If your answer to that simple question is "Yes", than this is a product that you might be interested in.  Contour's newest entry into the extreme-sports-head-mounted-video-cameras product category is the ContourRoam which includes everything you see in the kit above. ...

Farming Done Right

Farming Done Right

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsZuDpkmT5A#! Here is a video overview of the facilities at Live Aquaria, with a great voiceover by Kevin Kohen.  You may be able to make a buck by farming corals in your basement, but if you want to do it right and survive the...

National Geographic’s Best Underwater Pictures

National Geographic’s Best Underwater Pictures

Every year National Geographic has a contest that is open to amateurs to find the best underwater photographs.  This year had some incredible entries including this great image of a nudibranch.  Be sure to flip through the entire set of winners.

Cancer Fighting Drugs From the Reef

Cancer Fighting Drugs From the Reef

This recent report from NBC Universal sheds light on what a lot of hobbyists already know in their heart, that the reef has untold riches to benefit the world if we would just take more time to study them.  The sheer diversity of life on the reefs and the incredible...

Hands on with Tigger/Phyto Feast Duet Pack

Hands on with Tigger/Phyto Feast Duet Pack

We've been testing the new double pack of feeds from Reef Nutrition for several weeks now and are really pleased with this new offer.  First of all, you get everything you need for filter feeders, NPS corals, LPS and even some active feeding SPS, all in one cute...