Reefers tend to steer their children into the hobby in strange ways. Take cartoons for example. How many of you have your children watching either Bubble Guppies or Spongebob Squarepants? Unfortunately, no matter how cool the subject matter is, television shows can...
While at MACNA we picked up the new Radion XR30w, as always, Ecotech delivers on the sexy packaging and box. Gone are the days of getting your new hi-tech LED lighting system in an unlabeled brown box with only "Made in China" written on the side. Clearly Ecotech is...
We were right down the hall from Eheim at MACNA and had many chances to oggle these cute new tanks in the "Aquastyle" line. They come in three sizes, 4, 6, and 9 gallons, and just about everything has been integrated in the Eheim style. For example, the tanks come...
If you were at MACNA and were on the hunt for some nice colonies, there were definitely a lot of things to see, but what really caught our eye were these incredible colonies that Dr. Mac had on display at the Pacific East Aquaculture booth. If we were judging the...
While at MACNA last weekend we were informed of a great book for children to learn about reef life, and it is written entirely in Spanish! A lot of our readers either speak a bit of Spanish or have multilingual children, so we figured we'd share the news about this...
Another MACNA has come and gone and our hats are off to the awesome team at GIRS for putting on a fantastic show. For 3 days, the rest of the world stood still and we all got together to share our love of the reefs, our thirst for new and cooler gadgets, and our...
The great engineering team behind the Vortech line has revealed their new LED creation and we're just amazed at how compact and simple it is. This is a view of the inside of the fixture and as you can see there are very few things that could break. When you see it...
Our friends over at Pacific East Aquaculture have always been known to bring out the big guns for the Manhattan Reefs Frag Swap, and MACNA is no different. Here is a quick glimpse of just the clam selection at Dr. Mac's booth. There are also a ton of nice acan and...
This puppy is the newest member of the Vertex family, the triple pump dosing system "Libra". Featuring wireless communication to the Cerebra (can also work standalone), the Libra was designed for each maintenance of the dosing pump components. Yet another method for...
Reed Mariculture recently announced their new line of breeder specific products under the name APBreed. They've been sending out samples for a while now but this is the new packaging you can expect when you order. These containers allow you to eliminate all air from...