Sulawesi corals are about to pick up where Borneo corals left off, we hope. A couple years ago there was some efforts to get Borneo corals into the aquarium trade, and that hasn’t panned out yet, but now Sulawesi corals may become the new poster children for shipments from the infamous Coral Triangle. Our first sneak peek [...]

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The Nuvo aquarium series from Innovative Marine is a hot-selling reef aquarium package which is designed to pair up with the Skkye LED tablet but it also plays especially nice with another LED aquarium light. While at Aquamart in Lakewood Colorado this weekend, we noticed they had an Ecoxotic Panorama Pro LED light nestled atop a Nuvo [...]

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Hybrids aside, Chaetodon tinkeri is the least common and arguably the coolest obtainable member of the five roaps butterflyfish – with emphasis on the word obtainable. As far as butterflyfishes go, all five species within this subgenus Roaps are hardy and acclimate well to captive life, taking prepared foods easily from the get go. Having [...]

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The DIF50XP and DIF100XP LED are two new pendants with Orphek which join a growing trend of incorporating more colors of LED in reef aquarium lights. Whereas the Ecotech Marine Radion XR30w and PacificSun LED Hyperion use a handful of discrete LEDs of different colors, the DIF50XP and DIF100XP are a rare breed of reef light with [...]

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Harry T. Tung and Jim Adelberg have been working hard to build Reef Hobbyist Magazine, their FREE quarterly publication, for 5 years now.  As Jim and Harry launched the  sixth season of RHM, they enter a new chapter with the inaugural publication of the first Chinese issue of Reef Hobbyist Magazine. Read on to learn more [...]

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  January 31st– February 6th Adee’s reef is a sunlight driven beast from South Africa First look at the Hydro Wizard Small in development by Panta Rhei Experienced aquarists consider safeguarding broodstock of endemic Hawaiian fish Red Sea reef fish beginning to trickle back into the aquarium trade JBJ Unibody 36, 54 and 108 makes [...]

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Bob Berwyn
February 5, 2012
Source: Summit County Citizens Voice

"Drilling into coral reef growth bands - much like dendrochronologists study tree rings - enabled Australian researchers to pinpoint impacts of changing sea temperatures, showing that warming oceans have boosted coral growth in some areas - at least in the short-term. In other areas, oceans have already become to warm for optimum coral growth.

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Jonathan Kaiman
Source: The Seattle Times
February 4, 2012

"BEIJING - Tucked away on a glossy menu in the Herbal Cafe, a Beijing restaurant known for its herbal teas and low-fat Cantonese dishes, is a little nod to environmental advocacy. For about $2.50, customers can buy a bowl of imitation shark-fin soup made of vegetable stock and potato noodles.

"If it was real, then you'd have to kill sharks," said Zhang Gui, the manager. "Sharks are very precious animals."

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