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Wear your hobby on your sleeve

Want something else to buy for your tank? Well not strictly your tank but for yourself instead? Why not grab a shirt declaring your love for this hobby? You can thanks to Brett at Fishbrains.net
Check out the first two available prints.
Fishbrains.net is a new website selling aquarium and reef-related t-shirts to fellow hobbyists. For many [...]

Untouched coral reef system discovered

It brings a smile to my face when I see news like this. According to Practical Fishkeeping Magazine’s website, scientists have discovered a ‘near-pristine coral reef’ in the middle of the Pacific Ocean known as the Millennium Atoll (formerly Caroline Island).
An expedition to Millennium Atoll, a remote coral atoll in the Central Pacific, has uncovered [...]

New Sponsor: Premium Aquatics

Please join me in welcoming Premium Aquatics to Nanoreefblog.com as our newest sponsor. Most hobbyists will know their name, they are a highly respected aquarium retailer based in the state of Indianapolis in the USA. Their online catalogue offers all the goods a nanoreef aquarist could want and more.
Premium Aquatics is a family owned and [...]

Stylish LED lamps from Zetlight

As the reef aquarium LED revolution contines to march forward, it’s exciting to see great looking units becoming available.
Have a peak at these stylish LED units by Zetlight. The clear material (maybe acrylic?) surrounding the light fixture is just such a beautiful touch and really compliments any open top braceless/trimless style setup.
(edit: it seems as [...]

18″ High Output T5 lamps

After publishing yesterday’s article on T5 lighting (the 3rd part of the “Lighting up nano reef aquariums” series) I was contacted by the nice people from iQuatics, a UK based aquarium lighting company. In the previously mentioned article, I said that the shortest T5 lamps available to reef hobbyists was 22″ (24w). It is infact [...]

New AquaMaxx hang on skimmer (and other models) available now at MarineDepot

The nice people over at MarineDepot.com sent us some information about the new AquaMaxx skimmers they have available. As per reports by both Glass-boxdesign and Reefbuilders, these new AquaMaxx skimmers are a variation of a brand known as JNS.
Without getting to caught up in the details, aside from the other larger models available, the hang [...]

World Cup Special from MailOrderCorals.com

Our friends over at mailordercorals.com are so excited about the football World Cup happening in South Africa right now – they’ve agreed to offer all nanoreefblog.com readers 10% off all orders* over £75.
To qualify for this discount, please be sure to use the following promo code: WC2010NRB
(this can be entered when viewing your shopping cart)
Offer [...]

Prodibio aquarium products go nano

For first-time aquarium owners and more experienced aquarium owners who are starting up a small freshwater or marine water aquarium (0-120 l / 0-30 US gal), French aquarium company, Prodibio is now offering a new range of products that have been specially designed and packaged for starting up and maintaining small tanks.
Not sure what Prodibio [...]

New Sponsor: Direct Aquarium

I’m very excited to announce Nanoreefblog’s newest sponsor, Direct Aquarium. They are a US based online store offering a large range of aquarium products including a great selection of nano aquariums.
Owned by two aquarium hobbyists, Anthony Krueger and James Duclos, Direct Aquarium is an online store where you don’t just get a list of products. [...]

NanoReefBlog.com now available to read in 28 languages

After a brief ‘chat’ with Spanish reef bloggers, Acuaristica, over on twitter, I realised that by having this blog as an English only language website, I was excluding a large amount of nano reefers from around the world.
As of now, nanoreefblog.com is using a nifty bit of software to translate all the content into 28 [...]

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