Monthly Archives: November 2014

By Brandon Klaus We love LPS corals, especially huge, fluffy, wildly colored ones. That’s why we’re featuring this sexy Acanthophyllia for our Pic of the Week, which sports some awesome maroon, orange, and green coloration arranged in vertical striations. What we love about this genera Read more here…

By Leonard Ho Click through to see the images. The South Pier at Gdynia (photo right) already has a public aquarium, which was built in 1971. The Gdynia Aquarium is a modest facility by modern standards housing only about 200 species of animals (for comparison’s Read more here…

By Brandon Klaus There are plenty of stinging organisms in our tank, and they’re not always obvious. Sure, things like anemones and corals use stinging cells (nematocysts) to subdue their prey, which sometimes turns out to be our hands, but there are plenty of other Read more here…

By Jeff Kurtz Mention beautiful bivalves for the marine aquarium, and the various tridacnid clams (the so-called giant clams) will probably come to mind. Likely, the flame scallops of the genus Ctenoides will too. However, while the tridacnids have a fairly decent survival record in Read more here…

By Brandon Klaus Want to get out and enjoy the cooler weather with fellow aquarists? Well, if you’re in New York, specifically Brooklyn, then we’ve got the event for you. Manhattan Reefs is hosting their annual Fall Swap this Sunday, November 16th from 10am to Read more here…

By Brandon Klaus Sometimes a desirable coral can become invasive in the home aquarium. It may start out as a slow grower, but it quickly starts to dominate your reef scene. While this sounds like the dream scenario for any reef keeper, it isn’t without Read more here…

By Leonard Ho Click through to see the images. The name of this aquarium is the AquaVista Dinosaur Gold Edition. We aren’t kidding. Why Gold? The aquarium’s frame is made of 68kg (2400 ounces) of 24ct gold! We really aren’t kidding. Based on today’s market Read more here…

By Brandon Klaus If you’ve been in the hobby a while, then chances are you remember (or even still use) those iodine based coral dips that either worked really well or almost killed your coral frags in the process. Let’s face it, high concentration iodine Read more here…

By Brandon Klaus Here is a bit of advice that doesn’t necessarily deal with aquarium keeping, though many aquarists experience it on a regular basis. It is really common for aquarium keepers to unload used aquarium equipment on local forums. It happens day in and Read more here…

By Leonard Ho Click through to see the images. One of the top things reef aquascapers may envy about planted aquascapers is the creative freedom afforded to freshwater aquascaping. Reef aquascaping is fundamentally limited to recreating a “natural” reef … in other words: duplicating a Read more here…