So many tanks these days suffer from frag-a-titis- a bad rash of unsightly frag plugs slowly creeping across the sandbed.  The best cure is a magnetic frag rack, but when looking around, each find seems uglier than the last.  Where are the sleek, professional looking frag rack that don’t look like some guy glued magnets [...]

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Not content to let Avast Marine’s Swabbie have all the skimmate cleaning fun, Vertex Aquaristik will soon be releasing a protein skimmer neck cleaner of their own. The Vertex skimmer neck cleaner is powered y a durable brushless AC motor which can stand up to the stop and start and torque required of a neck [...]

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It’s been quite a while since we heard any news about the uber rare Mcculloch’s clownfish, Amphiprion mccullochi, but this weekend ORA treated visitors to their MACNA booth to some great looking small captive-bred specimens.Before the rare clownfish fanciers get their motors all revved up, ORA was just showing off these Mccullochi clownfish as a [...]

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Long-time aquarist and well-known author Dana Riddle was recognized as the 17th MASNA Aquarist of the Year at this year’s MACNA Banquet Dinner.  Dana’s acceptance speech, including remembrances of his recently passed father and the influence he had on Dana’s aquarium interests, concluded with an emotional, emphatic, and off-mic Japanese toast of BANZAI!  BANZAI!  BANZAI! that [...]

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The new AI Phoenix LED has built-in wireless connectivity which will communicate with a web-enabled black box but what about the AI Nano and AI Sol? AquaIllumination has not forgotten its workhorse Sol and cute little AI Nano which will both get some long-distance loving. A diminutive little wireless module is coming soon to enable [...]

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Clear Blue Pro is a new chemical adsorption media from Blue Life USA which is a modern take on the mixed media products like ChemiPure. Clear Blue Pro is a combination of high grade carbon, organic adsorption resin and GFO which uses a trifecta of chemical medias to scrub your water uber clean. The activated [...]

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Eheim may be a freshwater centric aquarium product company but their new prototype blue Aqualight LED indicates that they’ve got a little love for reefers yet. The new white AquaLight LED is just starting to hit store shelves in the 6500K flavor yet this weekend at MACNA we spotted an AquaLight sporting a band of [...]

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September 5th-September 11th Ecotech Marine Radion LED Photos Eco-Lamps Full Spectrum Edition KR93 LED coming soon from 1.023 world and Blue Harbor New Pacific Sun Metis Hyperion LED, first to offer Cree XM-L and UV LEDs ReefKoi EvoLed kicks the black box LED model up a notch New Panorama fixture from Ecoxotic is a skinny [...]

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