It has been about six months since we first introduced John Ciotti’s innovative upside down aquascape nano reef tank. When we visited the Southern California MAS a couple of weeks ago, we had the chance to visit this aquarium at Ecoxotic’s LED showroom and to sit down with John for a little Q&A about this [...]

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Just what is it about us reefers these days? Here we are, a quarter century after the “mini-reef” craze struck the hobby- and we’re still as amped as ever. We throw everything at our tanks to create this biggest, baddest, most powerful reef system ever! Not only are we hyper-equipping our systems with lots of [...]

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Source: PhysOrg.com
July 30, 2010

Groundbreaking preliminary findings from the Great Barrier Reef show climate change has not been smooth and continuous but may have been characterised by several rapid changes.

A team of international scientists, including Dr Jody Webster from the University of Sydney, have taken part in a groundbreaking voyage to the Great Barrier Reef between February to April this year to acquire fossil coral reef cores from the edge of the continental shelf.

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Gautam Naik
Source: The Wall Street Journal
July 29, 2010

A new assessment concludes that the Earth has been getting warmer over the past 50 years and the past decade was the warmest on record.

The State of the Climate 2009 report, published Wednesday as a special supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, was compiled by 300 scientists from 48 countries and drew on measures of 10 crucial climate indicators.

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It seems to us that a user named Reeferral has a quite a nice collection of SPS corals. Case in point, the ORA Roscoe’s Blue. An insanely colored A. tenuis. Take a look:  Although it may look bleached, I assure you thats not the case. Some corals can achieve this look, while being healthy. Tenuis acroporas [...] Related posts:

1. Torch Me, Aussie
2. A Common Beauty, Acropora valida
3. Oooh, Aaah, For Acropora

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Tattler’s basslet, Serranus phoebe, won’t be the most sensational rare fish collected this year, but that bold pattern of stripes on a light body with subtle blue markings sure are distinctive. The blue snout and angular head makes this serranid look more like a hamlet than a basslet, although the color pattern reminds of us [...]

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Sera has a new CO2 reactor with a novel pinwheel design to break up the gas before it travels down the reaction body. CO2 and Ozone reactors are normally the type of device which is DIY’d or handmade into existence which is why it is so refreshing to see a different design for this often [...]

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It’s Friday, July 30th, and the rumors are circulating that C-Quest is releasing captive bred Golden Damselfish, Amblyglyphidodon aureus (thanks to The Ediaz for tipping us off!).  C-Quest customers, check your latest availability lists!  Let me emphasize the “captive-bred” part.  These aren’t tank-reared, collected as juveniles.  No, these are truly spawned in captivity, hatched in [...]

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