by Marcin Smok | May 27, 2017 | Equipment, Industry, Opinion
Remember the days when automatic top off systems were in their operational infancy and largely unknown to the aquarium-keeping masses? When we had to regularly haul gallons of freshwater, manually replenishing what evaporated from the tank to maintain the stable... by Marcin Smok | May 24, 2017 | Equipment, Opinion, Tanks, Technology
Aquarium keeping as an industry has been growing steadily for the past decade and we are witnessing new inventions, as well as updates to well-known products being unveiled on a regular... by AquaNerd | May 15, 2017 | Events, Opinion, Reef
WWC – please send this to me! The guys from Worldwide Corals have done it again with the best Reefapalooza Orlando show I have attended.  In it’s 4th year in Orlando, this was, in my humble opinion, the best run show we have ever been to and I’ve had the pleasure of attending all four Orlando shows as a vendor. When we arrived, the Reefapalooza crew greeted us a the back entrance and within about 20 minutes they had the contents of our truck and trailer unloaded and delivered to our 20′ x 10′ booth.  Our thanks go out to the RAP staff that helped us get our gear into the convention center and bring water to our booth for our coral and Tahitian Maxima clam display.  Well by AquaNerd | Mar 25, 2017 | Industry, Opinion, Science
Photo Credit: Reef Raft USA – Neptune Bounce Why are lineage corals so expensive? This is a question that I get asked once a week at New England Aquarium Services.  There are hundreds, if not thousands, of lineage corals available in the aquarium trade and just one example of such a coral is the Jason Fox Beach Bum Montipora. This coral can range anywhere in price from $200-$600 for a ½ to 1 inch frag. The explanation for this question is very simple; lineage corals are corals that come from a seller’s private collection and they are unusually beautiful. Photo Credit: Jason Fox Signature Corals Additionally, corals like the Beach Bum usually command a higher price that holds up over time due to the fact that are by Admin | Mar 21, 2017 | Conservation, Opinion
The current best estimate of the amount of plastic trash in the marine environment stands at an astonishing 5.25 trillion pieces. Walk on a beach, just about anywhere, and you’ll come across plastic... by Saltwater Smarts | Feb 18, 2017 | Opinion, Tanks
E. ancora and close relatives can reach massive proportions in home aquaria Question Hi guys! My husband and I really enjoy your site and the commonsense advice you always give. My question for you is about the feasibility of adding an LPS coral to an established 60-gallon soft-coral tank. We’ve been keeping soft corals successfully for a long time, and now we’d like to give stony corals a try. We’re leaning toward an anchor coral because a friend of ours (who’s moving out of town and has to break down his tank) has a really nice specimen that he’s willing to give us. Most of the space in the tank is taken up by established colonies, but there is still one rock ledge available that we think should offer adequate room and good conditions for the new coral. The light (T5s) and current should be good in this location, and we’re pretty conscientious about water quality, always keeping nitrates very low
