Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Oculus Aquatics Closes Its Doors for Unspecified Internal Reasons
It’s with sad news that we report today that Oculus Aquatics, a company well-known for their amazing corals, has officially closed its doors. The coral wholesaler stopped all business activities on May 7th due to what they describe as “internal reasons”, which were not specified in their announcement. As with any major news like this, [...]
MASNA Announces 2013 – 2104 Student Scholarships
With MACNA 2013 quickly approaching, the Marine Aquarium Societies of North America have announced their annual 2013 – 2014 MASNA Student Scholarships, and this year they’re upping the ante in a big way. Just like last year, MASNA will be giving out two separate scholarships, one for an undergraduate and one for a graduate student. [...]
Tanked Gearing Up for New Season
Reality television junkies rejoice, the next season of Tanked is just around the corner. Starting March 22nd, the popular aquarium centric television show that follows the installs of Acrylic Tank Manufacturing will be returning to Animal Planet for yet another season. Follow the show on its new night as Brett Raymer and Wayde King build [...]
ATI Discontinues Powermodule T5HO Fixtures in the US
ATI Aquaristik has done something I never would have imagined seeing, they have officially phasing out their popular Powermodule T5HO fixtures in the United States market. Earlier this month, we were browsing the ReefGeek website (the former North American distributor for ATI) while looking for new information on the LED/T5 Hybrid Powermodule, which had recently [...]
Dr. Richard Pyle Announced as MACNA 2013 Keynote Speaker
Here’s some great news for registered and potential attendees of MACNA 2013. The world famous Dr. Richard Pyle was just announced as the keynote speaker of the Saturday night banquet. We’re huge fans of Dr. Pyle and all of his amazing work collecting, researching, and naming rare aquarium specimen, most notably the Peppermint angelfish which [...]
Animal Supply Purchases Lone Star Pet Supply
On November 8th, Animal Supply Company announced that they had completed their purchase of pet equipment distributor Lone Star Pet Supply, a Texas based wholesaler that carries a broad spectrum of products for virtually every type of pet. Because Animal Supply sells more pet food than anything, the acquisition of Lone Star Pet Supply greatly [...]
SWC Owner Slapped with $135,000 in Fines for Illegal Smuggling
In December of last year, Jason Daeninck of Salt Water Connection was convicted of illegally importing around 20,000 pounds of live rock along with seahorses and giant clams into Canada from Indonesia. After his arrest in 2007, Daeninck was found guilty of 18 charges under the federal Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of [...]
HGTV to Air Ultimate Aquariums
With the success of Animal Planet’s Tanked and Nat Geo Wild’s Fish Tank Kings, more television networks are starting to venture into the growing market of aquarium themed shows. The latest of which is Ultimate Aquariums, an HGTV show that will initially only air as a single 30-minute episode on Friday, October 12th at 1 [...]
Congratulations to Kevin Kohen for Being Awarded MASNA Aquarist of the Year
We wanted to briefly congratulate Kevin Kohen from LiveAquaria on being awarded the prestigious MASNA Aquarist of the year here at MACNA 2012 in Dallas. We are still living it up at the banquet and listening to Jean-Michel Cousteau, but we will have more info on Kevin and his work later this evening.
Fish Tank Kings Announces Second Season
Nat Geo Wild has just announced that their popular aquarium themed television show Fish Tank Kings is getting re-upped for a second season. The show follows the aquarium builders from Living Color Aquariums as they install, upgrade, and build amazing saltwater tanks and take us on some interesting adventures. Last season proved to be quite [...]
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