The DC Mini Red Dragon 5000 is another newly unveiled water pump from Royal Exclusiv. Borrowing from the engineering and design of the RD3 4500, the DC Red Dragon 5000 is also based on a brushless DC motor with very high RPMs and all German made construction. Like the RD3 4500, the DC Mini Red [...]

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The following is a contribution from Ducth reefing veteran Tanne Hoff better known as Tanu on the interwebz. I first visited Luc about 6 years ago as I saw his previous tank being featured in a topic on the Dutch Marine forums, www.zeewaterforum.info. I was very impressed! Luc and I kept in touch and as [...]

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The RD3 4500 is the first new water pump from Royal Exclusiv’s new line of Red Dragon Three pumps that will be coming to market after a year and a half of development. Many of the pumps in the RD3 series look like refined versions of the RD2 Classic which we first spotted at InterZoo [...]

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Two wild Amphiprion ocellaris from the Philippines were recently collected with a ‘natural’ mis-barred Picasso pattern. People who have seen man made clownfish such as the Picasso, Snowflake, or the Platinum varieties may easily overlook unusual clownfish with a small aberrant stripe pattern. But these wild caught clownfish with natural aberrations are something special, especially [...]

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It’s a new week and a new podcast. This week, in Reef Threads Podcast #41, we discuss the Cancun Underwater Museum, a new book about Banggai Cardinals, our favorite reef animals, Levamisole, indicator organisms, fighting summer heat, and our Noteworthy … Continue reading →

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DT’s Phytoplankton is an iconic brand which pretty much single handedly created the market for commercial production of phytoplankton for reef tanks. After years of struggling with the high cost of artificial light and cooling, DT’s Phytoplankton Farm is shutting down its operations in Illinois and merging with Bay Shellfish Company in Palmetto, Florida. Over [...]

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After reading Scott Fellman’s post about bad reefing ideas, I started to think about where a lot crazy shifts in reefkeeping have originated. Usually it’s from some reefkeeping “expert”.  More often than not, I have had to ask myself what makes them an expert. Is it a designation awarded by a committee? Do you receive [...]

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Ecoxotic has just outed their follow up to the widely used panorama modules, the Panorama Pro LED. The 19 watt Panorama Pro is a nearly a 50% increase in power over the previosu generation of Panorama LED modules, yet the retail price at launch is dropping from $99 to $89. The Panorama Pro is much [...]

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