Since it’s success last year, the Reading MaidenHead Aquatics store will be hosting yet another Open Weekend event, which celebrates the 5th year of the store being open, this upcoming weekend (18 – 19 May 2013). I will at the event on Saturday and will be presenting “Nano Reef Aquariums: Seeing the bigger picture”. I [...]

Your home or business aquarium does not have to be a huge expensive installation worth £10,000’s or even £100,000’s to capture the imagination. A beautifully designed small aquarium can add just as much life and beauty to a space as a 3 metre long statement feature. Whilst the initial impact with a nano tank is [...]

No matter which you look at it, both Ricordea’s – yes, there are two types and they hail from opposite sides of the world. Ricordea florida is from the Caribbean while Ricordea yuma hails from Indonesia. This beautiful group of corallimorphs offer us nano reef hobbyist some fine examples of stunning yet easy to care for [...]

Thomas Brown of ThomasVisionReef sits down with Albert Thiel to discuss The Nano Reef Aquarium book and a few other things.   Be sure to check out some of Thomas’s other aquarium related videos over on youtube.  

It’s can be easy to forget that aquariums are enjoyed by people all over the world, and it might be even more surprising to hear of great aquariums that call tropical habitats such as Indonesia home. If you know a little about this hobby, you’ll know that the Indo region is home to some of [...]

Similar to the other plate corals, Diaseris sp. are not only much hardier than Fungia and Cycloseris corals but also adapt more easily to one’s aquarium conditions, but the main difference is that they possess the ability to actually frag themselves. Yes, you did read that correctly: they can self-frag! Whereas hobbyists may be familiar [...]