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Reef Octopus Elite Skimmers Add DC Controlled Pumps to Wine Glass Bodies
What do you get when you combine the elegant shape of a wine glass bodied skimmer with the performance and controllability of a DC powered pump? The new Reef Octopus Elite skimmer, that’s what. Reef...
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Mummy Eye
The Mummy Eye chalice coral has been around the hobby for a long while but it is still one of my favorites. The striking beauty of this coral and the bright pigments of the captive grown specimens...
View ArticleThe Amazing World of Microscopic Pond Life Video
Daniel Stoupin is determined to win the internet. He has already shown us how corals can make for some terrific subjects of time lapse photography, and his latest video shows how freshwater life can...
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Rare, Deep Sea Octopus, Octopi, Cephalopod
Good morning readers, feast your eyes on this tiny little octopus sp. found yesterday with our manned submersible at 640 feet!! He was spotted by the Smithsonian Institution walking around on the sand...
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Polyp Extension
Acropora polyp extension can be an important factor when trying to determine the health of a specimen. Although it is possible to achieve some success when growing this species when absent, the axial...
View ArticleReplay of The Question and Answer Session With Mr. Saltwater Tank on 4/21/2014
This week’s topic was my top 5 corals that won’t break the bank. Here’s the list: Montipora Undata (Montipora undata) Montipora Setosa (Montipora setosa) Zoanthids Gorgonians Meat Corals...
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Reef Octopus Debuts Regal Red DC Powered Skimmer Line
Reef Octopus is breaking out the DC skimmer pumps once again in this new protein skimmer release. Called the Regal Skimmers, this line of foam fractionators looks quite similar to the Super Reef...
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Hunting Lionfish with a Submersible in Curacao
Good afternoon from the Caribbean!! Well it’s finally friday, pat yourself on the backs you made it through another week!! And that’s saying a lot for those of you battling the winter out there!! Here...
View ArticleMr. Saltwater Tank Profiles Bellevue High School’s Marine Lab
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Australia Wipes Out 250,000 Crown-of-Thorns Starfish in Two Years
Image Credit: Getty Images The crown-of-thorns starfish has been one of the single most destructive threats facing Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Its voracious appetite for hard coral flesh combined...
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Nature & Nurture Helps Corals In Hot Water
In an interesting new development, Stanford University researchers led by biology Professor Steve Palumbi have shown that some corals can adjust their internal functions to tolerate hot water 50 times...
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Win a Majano Wand & Destroy Pest Anemones
Whether you currently have a pest anemone problem or want to be prepared to thwart an infestation in the future, you need to have a Majano Wand in your arsenal. So we’re giving one away to a lucky...
View ArticleMonday Funnies
Because we would all rather be laughing than working here is some funny, yet surprisingly accurate, commentary on the Mantis Shrimp! … More: The post Monday Funnies appeared first on reefs.com.
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Reef Threads Podcast #179
Jawfish are a great addition to a reef tank, but put a lit on it.It’s time for our weekly gabfest about the reef-aquarium hobby. Subjects this week include the Boston Reef Society, kalkwasser, making...
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Maxspect Celestial C35 Spotlight Announced in Three Colors
It’s been almost a year since it’s MACNA 2013 debut to the aquarium keeping world, but the Maxspect Celestial LED spotlight is finally close to a public release and its announcement is being...
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Distinct Waves of Fish Colonized Reefs Millions of Years
Two distinct waves of colonization by fish on reefs have been identified in a recent study performed by Samantha Price, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at UC Davis....
View Article“6″ is a New Movie Exposing Illegal Wildlife Trafficking and Mass Extinction
The production team that filmed “The Cove”, a popular documentary that brought to light the extreme dolphin slaughtering in Japan, is back with a brand new movie that will focus on the larger issues...
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Giant Green Moray Eel, Gymnothorax funebris
Good morning guys and gals, we are super busy here at Substation Curacao today and I just finished my first of two dives. On my way back I ran into our little 6-foot long green buddy (above) and it...
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The Problems with Testing Aquarium Water
Phosphate levels have long been the debate of reef keeping aquarists, with folks generally falling into one of two categories. Most hobbyist have the persisting opinion that elevated phosphate...
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Leptoseris: A Stunning Newcomer to the Reefkeeping Scene
When you have been in the hobby a long time, you tend to see a lot of the same things over and over again. I often become desensitized to some of the most beautiful fish in the world because I’ve seen...
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