Archive for February, 2012
The Ultimate Octopus Themed Aquarium Viewing Chair
Designing a living space around an aquarium isn’t always easy, but things just got a little more interesting thanks to this amazing octopus inspired chair from artist and animal lover Maximo Riera. Almost like a prop right out of a James Bond movie with an aquarium-loving villain, this Octopus Chair is a gaudy and enormous [...]
The New Elos E-Style Chamber Feeds Your Filters with Style
Elos is always developing stylish solutions for freshwater and marine aquaria, and this latest product fits right into that scheme. This tiny external box, dubbed the E-Style Chamber, is an unobtrusive device for moving water back and forth between the aquarium and its associated filtration, such as a canister filter. This small acrylic box, which [...]
ORA’s New Clownmobile
Watch out Florida motorists, ORA has a new van that they’ll be tearing up the road with. After 10 years of back and forth trips to the airport and countless saltwater mishaps, the aquarium livestock aquaculture gurus at Oceans Reefs & Aquariums have finally retired their trusty (or should we say rusty) but boring old [...]
JBJ Unveils Wireless Unibody LED
The cute and already feature-rich Unibody LED fixture from JBJ USA has been a very well received and talked about light fixture that only just recently came onto the market. It’s small size but immense feature set make it ideal for illuminating Nano-Cubes and other similarly sized aquariums, and JBJ keeps throwing new upgrades at [...]
Tip of the Day – 2/29/2012
When introducing a new fish to your aquarium, turn off the water pumps and powerheads so that the stressed and confused animal doesn’t get sucked into the impeller and fatally injured. New fish have a lot of trouble adjusting to a new environment, and chances are they haven’t seen your fancy water pump during their [...]
A Look at Diadema Urchins by Fincasters
In the early 1980s, the Caribbean saw a massive die off of the long spine sea urchin (Diadema sp.), an important algae grazing invertebrate that cleaned off valuable space for coral settlement. The official cause of the urchin decline was eventually described as an unknown disease, but regardless of the cause, it put coral populations [...]
Aquarium Specialty to Offer Pimped Out Trade Show Tanks
Our pals at Aquarium Specialty just informed us that that have created the ultimate all-in-one aquarium. This setup is a swanky new fully functional tank designed specifically for aquarium vendors or hardcore hobbyists to show off corals on the trade show circuit, impress the locals during frag swaps, or simply show off collections of rare [...]
Kent Marine Recalls Reef Carbon Due to Heavy Metals
Kent Marine, subsidy of the aquatics division of Central Garden & Pet Company and a long-time supplier of aquarium chemicals, has issued a recall and an immediate stop of the sale of their popular Reef Carbon line of activated carbon. In an email recently issued to resellers, Central Aquatics stated that their carbon contained “unusually [...]
Tip of the Day – 2/28/2012
Looking to set up a sump or refugium under your aquarium on the cheap? DIY’ing aquarium equipment can be a fun and educational experience, but be careful with the type of products you use, as their original intentions were not for aquarium use. Things like Rubbermaid containers make for great sumps, but their thin plastic [...]
Neurotoxins Found in Shark Fins
Shark fin soup has been a long standing and traditional dish of many cultures, but due to the fact that its main ingredient is obtained in such a gruesome way, many of these cultures are moving away from the soup altogether, especially as generations get older. The practice that is being looked down upon involves, in a [...]
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