Oceanlife Overflow Masters the Minimalist Look
We stumbled across the Oceanlife Overflow over on Acuaristica recently and instantly fell in love with the extremely tiny footprint and minimal intrusion into the aquarium. The overflow doesn’t drain or return water in a fancy way, such as with the Xaqua X-INOUT that actually functions as a wavemaking return device. Instead, the Oceanlife device [...]
Hydor Smart Wave Controller Video Review
Back in October, we got our paws on the Hydor Smart Wave water pump controller, and after a couple of months of use on our aquariums we’re finally ready to finalize our review. When first unboxed, we found the Smart Wave to be both simple to use and visually appealing. The controller has a total [...]
ORA Tiger Goby (Elacatinus macrodon) Great for Pico Aquariums
Seeing as how I’ve been mulling over the idea of starting up one (or several) small aquariums to spruce up the house and office, I’ve been really giving a lot of thought as to what the potential livestock for the tanks would be and keeping en eye our for nano-friendly fish during my random fish [...]
Examining Snails Grazing on Aquarium Glass
In this hobby, it’s so easy to get wrapped up in rare fish and corals, high end equipment, and unusual husbandry techniques that the simpler things often go overlooked. Saltwater snails, which are the workhorses of our aquariums, don’t often get their fare share of the spotlight. It’s understandable that hobbyists don’t focus on their [...]
The Rubik’s Cube, So Easy a Mantis Shrimp Can Do It
Here’s an older video that our friends at Fish Gallery dug up and posted on their Facebook page. It’s a clip showing a stomatapod crustacean, otherwise known as a mantis shrimp, actually solving a Rubik’s Cube. Well, solving of the puzzle is implied with some extensive editing, but we’ll just say for the sake of [...]
The Bashsea PM-1 Media Reactor Tumbles the Pellets
As some may recall, we received a PM-1 bio-pellet reactor from Bashsea last week, and over the weekend we got to spend a great deal of time with it. We disassembled the reactor and tossed in a box of NP-Active Pearls from DrTim’s Aquatics. The lid to the reactor is held in place with thumbscrews [...]
EcoTech Marine Supports the Coral Restoration Foundation
Here’s a little distraction from your Sunday night football games. Coral restoration and conservation is a huge passion of ours, and should be of every saltwater aquarium keeper, so it should come as no surprise that we’re plugging the Coral Restoration Foundation (CRF). In the video above, the guys at EcoTech Marine are also joining [...]
Rare Japanese Bodianus masudai Hogfish Seen at Blue Harbor
Blue Harbor has just released a little footage of a stunning Japanese Masudai hogfish (Bodianus masudai), allowing us to catch a glimpse of this rare fish for the first time in a long time. Now, you might be asking yourself what’s so rare about this peppermint hogfish? And that’s a pretty reasonable question since Indonesian [...]
Ecoxotic Tosses on the Dimmer Switch
As if the LED products from Ecoxotic weren’t versatile enough, the lighting company is offering up an inline dimmer switch that is compatible with their popular Stunner Strips, Panorama Pro Module, and EcoPico LEDs. To use the dimmer, simply plug it into your existing Ecoxotic LED strips or modules, adjust the dial, and walk away. [...]
More Aiptasia Frying with Laser Beams
Back in early November, we stumbled across an innovative and fun way to decimate Aiptasia anemones and other pests by using laser beams. Well, it seems that aquarium hobbyists can hardly contain themselves when it comes to dishing out the pain to those pesky anemones, as the use of laser beams as a pest removal [...]
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