The Frag Plug Tree from Thrive Aquatics is an ingenious way to elegantly add more real estate for frags in an existing aquarium. Whereas most frag mounts we’ve seen to date including the Eshopps Frag Cave and Frag-a-rack are mounted horizontally, the vertically mounted coral Frag Plug Tree can securely hold frags in collectoritis tanks [...]

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Synchiropus tudorjonesi is a new species of red colored dragonet that is most closely related to Synchiropus morrisoni from the Western Pacific. Synchiropus tudorjonesi is described from four specimens collected in Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia but it is also known from photographs in Bali. Although Synchiropus tudorjonesi looks similar to Synchiropus morrisoni with is overall reddish [...]

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The Reef Tap frag plug is actually a pretty neat idea of using a coarse irregular dome surface on top for corals to grow onto but the bottom is a neat little screw that should, in theory, allow you to more securely fix the Reef Tap frag plug into your live rock. The Reef Tap frag plug [...]

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January 10th – January 16th Riusuke Fukahori paints amazing three-dimensional fish paintings Vivid Aquariums using 800 gallon display for a large scale comparison of LED and metal halides Lightning strikes twice with two incredible red Fungiid disc corals Puzzling creature washed ashore thought to be rare oarfish Flipper algae scraper is a near perfect clone [...]

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Our new Aquarium related T-shirts are now in stock. We have three designs available with some of these designs “limited edition”, meaning that they will not be re-printed. A little about the T-Shirts: They’re made in Chicago (of American Apparel Fabric). This means that if you’re an apparel snob you’ll understand these high quality shirts [...]

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More images of the upcoming Giesemann Teszla LED light fixture have emerged and we can tell you we are looking forward to getting our fins on one of these fixtures. As we mentioned earlier, the Tezla is the first fully fledged LED aquarium fixture from the German company known for its quality products. Along with [...]

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The TMC MiniLED appears to be getting another mounting option in the next few weeks. The original mount to the TMC MicroHabitat nano systems was using the MountaRay tank bracket but this new version is using a clear acrylic cross hatch design to mount the light over the tank. The new mount uses four acrylic [...]

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Cirrhilabrus sp. 1, known commonly as the Nahacky’s fairy wrasse, has been officially described by Dr. Hiroyuki Tanaka and Fenton Walsch in the latest issue from the International Journal of ichthyology as Cirrhilabrus nahackyi. For a while now the “used-to-be-undesrcibed” fairy wrasse has been entering the trade in small numbers, and was known amongst the [...]

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