One of the most visually striking LED systems to hit the market in recent months, the Maxspect Mazarra is a unique combination of controllable "wide wavelength" fixtures with an integrated active/passive cooling system and dynamic mounting solution. A few lucky souls...
The blue shift is all around us, from frag swaps, to the LFS, and now it has hit the coast of California. This is the aptly named "Moonlight Beach" in Encinitas a couple of days ago. There has been some red tide affecting the coast in several different area either...
Here is a great image from a recent photomicroscopy contest called the Nikon Small World competition. This tiny copepod is less then 1mm in size, and using a laser focusing system with digital processing, the entire image is rendered in focus. You can see all of the...
Normal is so 2010. These days people are jazzing up everything they own, from homes to cars to guns to tanks. If it has mass, you can pimp it. Slightly less expensive than getting the guys from TANKED to build you a reef inside of an Port-A-Potty, you can have this...
For all the New England reefers, don't forget about the big event at House of Fins this weekend, featuring our own Tony Vargas as a guest speaker, and Scott Fellman on the wheels of steel. They have some incredible discounts on just about everything you could want...
The typical aquarium owner is male. The typical video game player is also male. Aquaria is a really cool game for your iPad that can satisfy both of your addictions at once. What's even better?  The graphics are super cute, and your wives/girlfriends/others might...
Reefkoi had these sweet clam racks on sale at MACNA, and let me be the first to say it, what took you so long? How many clams have we lost to them falling over, being too confined, getting overgrown, and getting too much sand on their mantle? If I were running a...
Fauna Marin is known for producing products designed for high end reef keepers. For example, their LPS and Sea Fan foods are perfect if you are into target feeding and non-photosynthetic corals. Everyone these days is testing for phosphates and it is common...
Our friends over at the Coral Restoration Foundation sure have their work cut out for them. Growing and restocking the reefs in the Carribean with the endangered Acropora cervicornis is a daunting task, but the project is being led by some top notch people with many...
NextReef had their new NSX line of skimmers on display at MACNA and we were quite impressed by how well built it was. Not for the faint of heart, these skimmers are BIG, clearly for a large tank or even a commercial operation. The parts were well milled and the knob...