One of the key ingredients for any successful reef aquarium whether it be pico, nano, ‘normal sized’ or large, is light. (although that isn’t strictly true if you want to keep Azooxanthellae (non-photosynthetic) corals and sponges, but that is a whole different ball game!)
Why do we need light?
Our light dependant aquarium residents use light to [...]

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 [...]

One of the greatest things about the Internet is the availability of information, no matter how useless it might seem – guess ‘they’ weren’t wrong when it was coined the Information Super Highway, right? Would have helped if they made a map to go with it though…
The Great Migration
For the reefkeeping community the information we all [...]

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.

This is a great piece of reef aquarium cinematography. I can only imagine what this system will look like once it grows out. Not only is this a fine example of a modern reef aquarium featuring a rimless design, T5 fixture and open aquascape, the frags in this glass box are stunning. How many frags [...]

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 [...]