Stunning Arrow Crab Video
The guys at the Morphologic Blog have released another eye-popping video, this time of an Arrow crab. Though the arrow crabs are fairly common in the aquarium world, the artistic masters at the Morphologic Blog somehow manage to make this creature seem strange and unfamiliar.
‘The Arrow Crab’ from MORPHOLOGIC on Vimeo.
Dolphin Documentary Wins Big at Academy Awards
I normally don’t follow Hollywood related events, but a certain award given out at at the Academy Awards caught my attention last night. I was surfing the web while my wife watched the award ceremony, and the movie “The Cove” was displayed as a nominee for one of the categories. “The Cove”, a chilling documentary [...]
Massive Dubai Aquarium Springs Leak
The massive 2.6 million gallon aquarium at the Dubai Mall, which features the world’s largest acrylic window, has sprung a leak. Witnesses reported that a leak developed in a glass panel and that water had begun to puddle. Security quickly evacuated the portion of the mall where the aquarium is located, yet the crack continued [...]
Planctonite Abyss DVR
Planctonite, a rather unique aquarium equipment supplier, has released a very interesting new piece of videography equipment for our aquariums. Called the Abyss DVR, this piece of equipment is an autonomous video recording device that allows you to record underwater video of your aquarium. It attaches to the side of your aquarium via magnetic [...]
Decorator Crab Among a Purple Forest
The guys at Coral Morphologic are at it again with the stunning aquarium videos. Recently displayed on their Morphologic Blog is this gem of a video featuring a decorator crab among the purple Asparagopsis taxiformis macroalgae. The crab in the video, as its name implies, is adorned with the purple algae allowing it to blend [...]
DSPS Reef Tank from Thailand Update
Everyone remembers the gorgeous tank from “Chingchai” in Thailand that is over 1200 gallons. Well, a newer video has been released…and the tank is coming along nicely. The SPS have grown in tremendously, filling the tank up quite a bit. A load of clams have also been added to the sand and there’s a noticeable [...]
Mounting Coral Frags to Acrylic Rods
I came a cross this interesting video, where the demonstrator is attaching coral frags to acrylic rods. The idea of attaching frags to acrylic is not a new thing, but what the hobbyist used in the video to balance the coral is rather ingenious. The acrylic rod segment is placed into a vice, not your [...]
Electric Flame Scallop Video
The flame scallop is a very colorful bivalve that usually finds its way into the aquariums of naive or inexperienced aquarium keepers. They are a vibrant red color and filter phytoplankton and other microscopic organisms from the water. They are also extremely difficult to care for and should therefore not be purchased. But what’s so [...]
Injecting Aiptasia with Lemon Juice
Aiptasia are a nuisance anemone that reproduce quickly and sting nearby corals. If their populations go unchecked, Aiptasia can spread all over the aquarium and become almost impossible to remove. But I’ve found a great video demonstrating how to kill these pest anemones with common household supplies. In the following video, the aquarist injects each [...]
ZEOvit Reef Tank Video
Here is a stunning video of an SPS dominated ZEOvit reef tank. One could say that the colors are “enhanced”, but in reality these are the more natural colors of these corals. It may be a bit confusing, seeing as how the owner of this tank has had to dose quite a bit of chemicals [...]
