Early morning on Saturday, the 3rd of March, Randy and I left our home base in New York and went on a 2.5 hour journey to the neighboring state of Connecticut to attend the 11th Annual New England Frag Farmer’s Market. The event, organized by the E.O. Smith Coral...
I am sitting down with a keyboard in one hand and a glass of ruby liquid in the other to write this short but (I hope) to the point review. I have to admit up front, I truly enjoyed testing the two products that are the topic of this article, for several reasons, all...
It looks like this year will bring an abundance of new products for the aquarium market, and the segment of the industry that will be seeing the lion’s share of fresh innovations is reef-specific LED lights. I’ve been testing one of the newest LED panels for some time...
Throughout the years that I’ve kept marine aquariums, photography has been the driving force fueling my passion. In fact, one of the main reasons I decided to set up a saltwater tank in the first place was to photograph corals with my (then) newly acquired macro lens....
Testing. An unavoidable curse every aquarium owner must face, a repetitive chore that takes us away from enjoying the life on the other side of the glass, but also a necessity when keeping a successful tank. There’s no better way to achieve and maintain the fine...
Fish food comes in many forms- slow sinking pellets, sinking too fast pellets, powder, liquid, flakes, pulverized flakes, frozen, freeze dried, jellified, fresh from the ocean, fresh from the fish market, you name it. But the way we feed our fish is quite similar...
Since the day I set up my first saltwater aquarium, I've intertwined the reefing hobby with another passion of mine- photography, or in this case, macro photography. Back when I started experimenting with shooting close-up portraits of corals in my tank, there weren’t...
How many times, when picking up fish food at your local reef store, have you encountered the bold claim plastered on the label, stating that: “This food will improve your fishes' coloration”? Most of us, whenever we decide to buy that particular fish food or not, will...
Allow me to start with a short story: a few years ago, at one of my local forum's frag swaps, a coral vendor attending the event gave me a black tee shirt. On the back of this t-shirt was the usual stuff- business logo, website, telephone numbers, etc. On the front,...
A couple of months ago, I ran a series of posts showcasing San Francisco Bay Brand's new frozen foods, which included the all-reef feed Marine Cuisine, the finicky eaters' favorite Fish Eggs, the small fish and fleshy corals delicacy Calanus plankton and the filter...