ATM additives and aquarium products have been hinted at almost since the beginning of the TV series “Tanked“. A press release confirms that ATM is confusing aquarium products for merchandise stating that “first wave of the ATM product line is targeted to new hobbyists”. Although it is true that Tanked is probably encouraging new people [...]

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There’s always something about rare fish that really gets me going, regardless of species. I have however, a soft spot for wrasses and I secretly moonlight as a Cirrhilabrus nerd. For those living under a liverock, the quintessential genus, more commonly known as “Fairy wrasses”, boasts of more than fifty species, many of which have [...]

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The Teszla LED from Giesemann has been a long time coming from one of Europe’s swankiest aquarium light manufacturers. Giesemann’s first foray into LED lighting began with a trifecta of LED + T5 fluorescent hybrids and a striplight, the MatrixPlus, the Helios and the Quazar but the Teszla is the first fully fledged LED aquarium [...]

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In anticipation of his forthcoming Fishes of the Red Sea Jack Randall and fellow Ichthyologists have been busily working on describing new fish species from this region, the latest of which being the handsome goby Tomiyamichthys dorsostigma. We don’t see too many Tomiyamichthys gobies in the aquarium trade these days, nor too many Red Sea fish for that matter [...]

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No matter how good the stock Skkye LED light tablet looks with its single type of LEDs and moonlights, we don’t need a survey to know that 99 out of 100 reefers would prefer a light that includes discrete blue and white LEDs. To this end a new Dual Spectrum version of the Innovatieve Marine Skkye LED tablet [...]

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Less than a month ago we picked up a small colony of Acropora elegans from LiveAquaria which looked more like wooden branches of Acropora than a colorful coral someone would want to keep in their tank. ‘Deepwater Acros’ are notoriously difficult to keep growing and thriving with good color because either you give them too little light [...]

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We love well edited aquariums and in many cases, less can be more. This nice video of a very clean aquascaped ADA nano aquarium by YouTube user digitallyblue took a simple approach to make a big impact in a small scale. Using an 8 1/2 gallon ADA tank along with a five gallon sump and [...]

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We recently set up a new gyre flow frag tank, a 33 Long aquarium which is 48 inches long and lit by an assortment of lights including a NanoBox Reef LED. Since it’s winter and really dry in Colorado a full tank cover was added to help retain heat and water by preventing evaporation. However [...]

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