Announced in the overnight hours on ReefAddicts, the Dallas Fort Worth MACNA team revealed Jean-Michel Cousteau as the keynote speaker for the Saturday night banquet at this year’s Marine Aquarium Conference of North America. Jean-Michel Cousteau is the son of the legendary Jacques Cousteau, he is a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times, a [...]

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Cirrhilabrus claire is quite possibly the world’s rarest and least known fairy wrasse and holy grail is all but a plastic cup to this species. Since its discovery in 2001, there has only been two dead holotype pictures and absolutely zero information on it. The pair above from BlueHarbor is the first ever specimens to be [...]

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When you have yourself a posh $16.5 million beach-front home in Miami, you really don’t pull any punches when you want to add an aquarium. Reef Aquarium Design built and installed a swanky 800 gallon reef aquarium in this one-of-a-kind home that was just featured on Fincasters this week. Any time a crane is involved with [...]

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The Madness ZERO LED is a prototype aquarium light packing 40 Cree XP-E LEDs with a manual two-channel controller that can push out around 100W of power. There are plenty of one-off LED vendors but we are always interested in seeing people advance beyond the typical box lights we’ve seen. The Madness ZERO LED is off [...]

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The Arcadia LED Bar appears to be a new LED-only striplight from the UK manufacturer that produces the OT-2 LED + T5 hybrid and the Eco-Aqua LED spotlight. At first glance the LED Bar from Arcadia bears an uncanny resemblance to the AquaBAR LED from from AquaLEDs.de, in overall form and in the name but [...]

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Juvenile lemonpeel angelfish lose their black spot fairly early in their life, so getting of that size with the spot is not easy. Throw in the odds of finding a cocos-island blue eyed lemonpeel of similar stature, and we’re infringing on difficult, with a hint of improbable. The Indian Ocean lemonpeels from that area differ [...]

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InterZoo 2012 is the largest pet trade show this side of the our solar system, and it’s so big that InterZoo only happens every two years. If you haven’t noticed, we’ve had a major uptick in the posting of new products that will be released at InterZoo 2012. Even though InterZoo hasn’t even begun to [...]

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We have another aquarium-community website for your consideration. aquarist.me provides members organized web space to share specs, status updates, and photos of their systems. The website also hosts a wiki-style (crowd-sourced) livestock database.

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