Spotlight: Kenya’s Marine Ornamental Fishery
A man dives under the crisp blue surface of the salty water and is suddenly engulfed in a busy world of color and bursts of life. His well-trained eyes lead him to a small overhang on the reef that is populated with colorful wrasses. In one swift motion, he extends...
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Life saving transplant has potential for bleached corals
Similar to the idea of a kidney transplant, blood transfusion, or skin graft; scientists are testing the waters of the possibility of transplanting zooxanthellae to bleached corals. Now, the first thought I had when I read this title from Reefbuilders was “How...
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Man walking 400 miles of Florida beaches to bring awareness to ocean plastic issue
A Florida man has recently gained a lot of attention for a noble cause. Bryan Galvin recently embarked on a 20-day journey to help remove plastic products from our oceans and our beaches. "In case you were wondering... Yes, I do like long walks on the beach,” jokes...
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Brown Waters Caused By Excess Rain On The Suncoast
If you live in Florida or have been paying attention to the weather channel lately, then you know that the state of Florida has gotten a lot of rain as of late. This is actually a good thing in most cases as a large part of the state was in a severe or exceptional...
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Florida Finally Getting Settlement Money From 2010 Oil Spill
It has been a long time coming for residents and business owners in the panhandle of Florida. Governor Rick Scott just signed a bill to distribute the money handed over from BP after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill back in 2010. It has been seven long years of waiting...
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Want To Add A Jaguar Cichlid To Your Tank?? – Everything You NEED TO Know [INFOGRAPHIC]
STOP! What are you doing?? You absolutely DO NOT want to incorporate that new, beautiful Jaguar Cichlid into your tank of Tetra and Angle Fish. Look, the Jaguar is a fish for moderate to advanced owners. So, if you definitely are sure you want to take up the...
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GHL Doser Maxi – Released!
Looking for a new way to do exact and automated water changes? Do your top off needs require more than 1ml a minute? Maybe you dose Kalk and need a way to dose on a larger system like we do? GHL has designed their new MAXI Doser to fill all those needs. If you are...
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The New Orphek Atlantik V4 Compact Reef LED Lighting System for Optimal Coral Growth and Color
The New Orphek Atlantik V4 Compact Reef LED Lighting System for Optimal Coral Growth & Color There's a new product being introduced to the reefer's aquariums! The New Orphek Atlantik V4 Compact Reef LED Lighting System for Optimal Coral Growth and Color has made its...
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Take your Reef Dosing to a new level with the GHL DOSER 2.1
Product Review: GHL DOSER 2.1 For many years, we had leveraged our Apex to control BRS dosing pumps in our main 800 gallon grow out system. This had served us well using both Reef Grow’s 9 dosing strategy as well as Triton’s Core 7. That was until the fall of...
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Nile Crocodiles More Than Just Visiting The State Of Florida
Is it possible to have something more terrifying than a Burmese Python taking up residence in Florida? Apparently, it is as the Nile Crocodile has now been captured twice around Miami, Florida. If you did not know, Nile Crocodiles are primarily found in the Nile...
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Roboray to be the new coral conservation hero
New technologies, such as Drones, are definitely making their mark on the future both above the ocean’s surface, and underwater. The latest subaquatic technology includes a “chameleon” drone that is here to change the future of coral reef ecosystems. Its name is...
Aquatic Life FAQs
Several users throughout Facebook and Reddit have reached out to me asking detailed questions about aquatic life. Some of the questions I felt were very insightful for everyone to learn and know about, so I have compiled them into a FAQ list. Below you can find...
Everything to Know About Keeping Jellyfish
Keeping Jellyfish in aquariums is one of those things that many hobbyists would like to do, but not a lot of people really know how. In this Q&A I have interviewed the Jellyfish expert, Travis Brandwood on how to take care of them in captivity. Hopefully with this...
Product Review: Reef Brite 15″ 250W Metal Halide Pendant
Continuing on with our testing of some of Reef Brite's products, we decided to take a step back and test a former tried and true product. In this product review, we're going to take a look at the Reef Brite 15" 250W Metal Halide Pendant from Reef Brite. To test this...
Cyclone Debbie brings cool water currents but no relief for bleached reefs
Environmental and ocean news outlets are full of information and articles about the bleak future of coral reefs, and the constant attack they are under in warming ocean temperatures around the world. Sadly, coral reefs are also facing natural disasters and the latest...
Vermetid Snail Control
Vermetids and the Reef Tank Vermetid snails are a type of snail that begins its life as a small mobile creature that can move where it wants. It then plants itself to a rock and builds a calcified tube where it spends the rest of its time. The featured image for this...
