Monthly Archives: November 2014

By Brandon Klaus The only real, readily available way to determine if your lights are strong enough for your corals is to measure their PAR output. But the measurements have to be taken from in the water, near the locations of your various corals. To Read more here…

By Ret Talbot Click through to see the images. There are many similarities between the marine aquarium trade and the seafood trade, but perhaps one of the most important is that both are dependent on wild animals. While aquaculture exists for both aquarium fishes and Read more here…

By Brandon Klaus Giesemann just unleashed a whole bunch of sexy. They recently debuted their new Aurora Hybrid LED/T5HO fixture, and it is quite an impressive gathering of lighting technology, if we do say so. Building off the proven benefits of both LED and T5HO Read more here…

By Brandon Klaus Need some good fragging tool ideas to get your coral propagating started? The hardware store is a great place to look. A good coral fragger’s toolkit should include things like razorades/scapels, bone cutters, super glue, tissue scissors, and of course, frag plugs. Read more here…

By Leonard Ho Click through to see the images. Brandon Mason inspired many nano/pico aquarists to attempt low-tech vase aquariums with his one-gallon Reef Bowl, which he started in 2006 and, as we reported, was still going strong as of 2013. Obviously aquariums with volume Read more here…

By Jeff Kurtz As human beings, it’s in our nature to assign certain traits to small animals—cute, dependent, harmless, defenseless, etc. Perhaps we think this way because when it comes to animals, people included, smallness is usually correlated with infancy. However, if applied to marine Read more here…

By Brandon Klaus Here’s a fish that you might have already assumed was a conquest of the captive bred world. Oceans Reefs & Aquariums announced a few days ago that the ORA Orbic Cardinalfish (Sphaeramia orbicularis) would finally be commercially available to the masses. With Read more here…

By Brandon Klaus Pictured in this round of the AquaNerd POTW is an awesome little Tahitian Tridacna maxima clam, which we spotted at FJW Aquarium here in the Houston area. This lovely clam sports a rich black and blue mantle, with the patten being someone Read more here…

By Leonard Ho Click through to see the images. UNRIVALED LIGHT DISTRIBUTION AND CONTROL BUT WITHOUT THE SHADING Unbeatable Performance Giesemann’s brand new AURORA-HYBRID LED/T5 system combines the control, flexibility, energy efficiency, and spread of high spec optic-free LED lighting, with the overlapping wide spectral Read more here…

By Brandon Klaus There are many different invasive corals that can take over a reef aquarium, and sometimes it’s a coral you would least expect. Sure, we all know how fast Zoanthids and Kenya Tree corals can reproduce, but certain SPS corals can also grow Read more here…