The Rowley Shoals is a group of atolls located south of the Timor Sea, NorthWest of Australia. The undisturbed reefs of Rowley Shoals really speak for themselves in the video above. Check out the awesome male Pseudanthias tuka with the incredible yellow dorsal fin. Apart from the standard reef fare, the Rowley Shoals is home [...]

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The Schuber Wright LED is one of the most attractive nano lights we’ve seen in a quite a while. In some ways the he four watt Schuber Wright LED light could serve double duty, it could be a pretty looking moonlight or a nano spotlight, the same could be said about any four watt LED spotlight [...]

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Acanthurus leucosternon, more commonly known as the powder blue surgeonfish is a rather promiscuous species as far as surgeonfishes go. Although hybrids between surgeonfishes are uncommonly documented, there are some well known examples involving the powder blue surgeonfish. South Africa’s Oceanseekers scored what appears to be, according to them, a hybrid between Acanthurus leucosternon and [...]

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The ASM Cone Skimmer series is a new line of fractionators from All Seas Marine that jumps on the tail end of the cone skimmer bandwagon. Not that we’re saying that cone skimmers are a fad, we enjoy several on our aquariums but when you release a protein skimmer product that looks literally like a [...]

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Anampses femininus used to be a fish so rare and so legendary that obtaining one would certainly be very difficult. Whilst it is still very rare, its awesome to see that more are entering the market recently as compared to before. The specimen above is the third in two months that has entered LiveAquaria’s Diver’s Den. [...]

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Red carpet anemones were once only the purview of imagination and hearsay. Nowadays red carpet anemones do appear in the aquarium trade, even if they can cost as much as a full nano reef set up sometimes. All of the red carpet anemones we’ve seen have been Stichodactyla haddoni, a species of hosting carpet anemone that [...]

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The variations of Pseudanthias ventralis may very well one day be described as separate species from the original Cook Islands type. The most commonly seen of these variants are the ones hailing from the Marshall Islands. Males from this area typically sport a red marking on the tail and this trait is shared with others from [...]

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ATB has released a new Normal Size protein skimmer with an automatic collection cup cleaning system using a combination of freshwater and saltwater. Not too much information is available right at the moment but it appears the new ATB automatic pot cleaning system incorporates a squeegee system running off a 12VDC motor and the inside cleaning of the [...]

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