Saltwater Reef Aquarium News
Hydor Presents New Products at Interzoo 2024: All the Details
Hydor, recently acquired by Ferplast (see here), unveiled many new products at Interzoo 2024. This event showcased the most important aspect: Hydor is back and...
Monday Archives: Sea Sheep
This is, without a doubt, one of the most adorable sea creatures I have ever seen – and it’s a slug! The tiny creature looks like a...
Chaeto Reactors compared to Algae Scrubbers: Part 1
All macroalgae operate the same, chemically. They all use light photosynthetically, absorb nutrients from the water (i.e., filtering), and grow biomass. Just like trees. The...
Ocean Wedding!
Hello friends! Today, I, your faithful, hardworking, and dedicated senior editor for the past 8 years, am getting married! It will be a tiny, intimate...
Hawkfish: Small, Hardy, and Smart
Hawkfish are attractive, hardy, small fish that are commonly available in the aquarium hobby. Even Fishbase points out that they “adapt well to aquarium conditions”....
Live from Reef A Palooza California 2024
https://www.youtube.com/live/I75r4CxARHM?si=BswODYSB1GZIs9f0
MASNA Pioneer Award for Hobbyist Advancement
The Marine Aquarium Societies of North America (MASNA) proudly announces Ryan Batcheller as the recipient of the 2024 MASNA Pioneer Award for Hobbyist Advancement. Ryan...
Monday Archives: When is a Toadstool Coral not a Toadstool Coral?
“Sarcophyton” ehrenbergi, the False Toadstool Coral. Credit: Dr. Yehuda Benayahu Zoological taxonomy is not for the feint of heart. Take, for instance, the humble Toadstool...
‘Coral Morphologic 2’ Album Physical Release
Our album Coral Morphologic 2 is now available in physical formats (vinyl / CD / cassette) from Miami’s Terrestrial Funk. The vinyl LP includes a foldout poster featuring album artwork...
Julian Sprung’s Reef Tank: 2024 Showcase
I was recently invited to Julian’s house to meet up with our friend Koji Wada from Osaka, Japan that came to visit us state side...
Reef Mentoring: The Finale
Preface: I made this Reef Mentoring article series to document my recommendations to a hobbyist I have been mentoring. I am building basically reef tank...
Rappin’ With ReefBum: Guest Jeff Turner, Reef Aquaria Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEOU4k0lQw
Reef Kids: Classroom Decorations!
The beginning of the school year always leaves me with a sentimental feeling. The changing colors of the leaves, the children in their brand-new clothes,...
Monday Archives: Master of Mimesis: Manonichthys paranox, The Midnight Dottyback
Manonichthys paranox, the Midnight Dottyback. Photo credit: Lemon TYK. Mimicry is an ancient art practiced and mastered across the board in the animal kingdom. The paradigm...
‘Automatic Detection of Unidentified Fish Sounds: A Comparison of Traditional Machine Learning with Deep Learning’
A new scientific paper has been published in the research journal Frontiers in Remote Sensing titled ‘Automatic detection of unidentified fish sounds: a comparison of traditional deep...
Let’s talk fish! – Mandarin Dragonet from Biota Aquariums
For this video, we visited our friends Biota Aquariums to talk about one of the most iconic and beautiful fish in our saltwater hobby, the...
