If the Hydro Wizard Medium is a pump for the 1% of reefers then maybe the Hydro Wizard Small might be one for 10% of us. A prototype of the Hydro Wizard Small does not yet exist in real life but that hasn’t stopped us from siphoning some information about Panta Rhei’s next water mover [...]

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Red Sea reef fish were the pinnacle of aquarium fish provenance when we started keeping a marine aquariums in the nineties. For a decade orchid dottybacks, red sea pearlscale butterflyfish, broomtail wrasses and bicinctus clownfish seemed like staple aquarium fish that would be around forever. Although orchid dottybacks have persisted in the hobby, nothing compares to wild caught Pseudochromis [...]

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A few years ago we were impressed with Deep Sea Aquatics’ Neo Nano and were happy to hear about the big brother coming out in the last part of 2011. While we are hoping to get more details on this system, it appears the 50 gallon system also incorporates the innovative cascade filtration and design to increase water [...]

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Acanthurus polyzona is a very seldom seen fish that closely resembles the obscenely common Acanthurus triostegus, more commonly known as the Convict Tang. Unlike the Convict Tang, A. polyzona is a Western Indian Ocean species and can be found in Mauritius, Madagascar, the Reunion islands and surrounding locales. Divergence and speciation probably accounted for the [...]

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The JBJ Unibody 36 and Unibody 108 are smaller and larger iterations of the industrially machined LED reef light. The JBJ Unibody LED reef light hasn’t been shipping all that long but due to demand for the popular light, JBJ R&D is already moving forward with the pre-production of two new sizes with the Unibody [...]

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  January 24th– January 30th CONIC Bio-reactor from CAD lights is a plug and play biopellet mixer ASM cone skimmer doesn’t really stand out in materials and cost LSS laboratory releases new nozzle wave maker Anampses femininus entering the market with a little more regularity Home automation still a hot topic at tech trade shows, [...]

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If you weren’t able to make it to last week’s Diversity and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes, fret not because this informative talk is already up and live on the interwebz. Dr. Luiz Rocha, the ichthyologist who has described for us great new reef fish species including Sparisoma choati, Chaetodontoplus poliourus and Halichoeres sazimai delivers an excellent [...]

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Plectranthias

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