It has been an exciting week for fishkeepers. ORA in the USA have announced that they are now offering captive bred Mandarin’s, Blue Zoo aquatics offered a stunning Lightning Maroon clownfish and our friends over at Captive Aquatics have made their Gladiator clown’s available.
ORA Captive bred Mandarin gobies

For many years marine aquarium hobbyists have been [...]

If you’re itching to add some new stock to your reef, why not take a look at these newly added Australian frag packs from UniqueCorals.com
Take your pick of Chalice, Favia, Bowerbanki and SPS frag packs for only $100 shipped. (Be sure to choose “Store Pick Up” when checking out to avoid getting charged any extra [...]

It looks like Thomas Phol over at Germany’s Korallen Zucht (KZ) have released a new mixture of the ZEOvit media. Although there are no details about what has changed with the media, I must say I do like the new packaging.

From the company that just keeps putting out great water moving products comes news that a new driver for their Vortech pump range. The Ecosmart Driver will replace the current drivers used for MP10 and MP40 pumps.
The omission of the Ecosmart for the MP20 might be hinting at the removal of this pump from the [...]

After a good few months of designing and working very closely with Fistafiltration, I’m extremely pleased to officially announce the arrival of the all in one ZEOvit based nano reef aquarium known as the ZEOnano.
The ZEOvit reefkeeping method and other popular ‘Ultra Low Nutrient System’ methods have slowly been filtering their way into the nano [...]

Late last year, the well respected British aquarium magazine, PracticalFishkeeping had their website hacked.
Today, it seems as if popular marine aquarium website, Reef Builders has become a victim of hacking too. Although not “hacked” in terms of information being stolen (as far as I know), but the site seems to be affected by ‘malware’.
I hope [...]

Strangely enough today I saw an amazing photo of some Carberryi anthias – but it was the logo attached to the image that got me thinking…
I hit up google and started digging and come across this:
Now, I’ve checked back a good few times today, but the maintenance page is still up despite the notification that [...]

As a regular to this site, I’m sure you’ve noticed the LiveAquaria banners on this site – and if you’ve visited numerous other popular reef blogs you would have seen these on those sites too. But these banners will no longer be displayed as Drs. Foster and Smith & LiveAquaria have put their affiliate program [...]

The ultra modern and very cool Elos brand has launched it’s very own USA website, and it’s stunning – exactly the kind of brand extension you’d expect from this world class aquarium company. Now you US based reefers don’t have to wonder or enquire about pricing anymore, it’s all on the site… as for us [...]

It has recently been reported that some of the newly discovered reefs off the coast of the United Kingdom are in danger of being destroyed. The destruction of these reefs is directly related to bottom trawling.
“Almost every coral reef I’ve been diving on has been severely damaged, particularly those off the west coasts of Scotland [...]