Advanced Aquarist
Denitrification of the Oceans Increases Due to Warming
Researchers document acceleration of ocean denitrification during deglaciation.
Time lapse video: Aquascaping a 3 gallon nature aquarium
DefiniteAquascapeTV shows us what it takes to create this beautiful nano nature aquarium, and it's pretty darn impressive. Three hours of aquascaping is condensed into five minutes of fascinating time lapse.
Avast Marine introduces top-down porthole for smart phones
With the improvements in smart phone camera technology, a lot more people are taking high quality shots with their handheld devices. Avast Marine has introduced a new acrylic porthole specifically designed for smart phones. The unit will hit the market on June 24 at the price of $59.99 USD.
I'm pretty sure this doesn't happen in nature
There was an epic struggle of life and death between a Sting Ray and Guttatus Tang on display at the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific. Somehow, I don't think this kind of predator/prey interaction happens in nature.
Lookdowns are sneaky!
Outperforming the 'mirror' camouflage strategy by up to 80%, lookdowns can also manipulate how their bodies reflect plane polarized light making themselves even more invisible in open water.
Pacific Sun introduces their new "SMT" LED panel technology
There are two general ways to arrange multiple individul diodes in modern LED aquarium lighting: spaced apart (AKA "line array") or grouped together (AKA "cluster array"). Previous Pacific Sun LED lights were arranged in line arrays, but they have announced their new square cluster LED panel technology called Square Matrix Technology, or SMT for short.
Banggai Rescue book soon to debut
Nine months after its initial targeted release date, Reef to Rainforest has updated its Kickstarter campaign with information stating the book will be released soon. Better late than never!
Mr. Saltwater Tank interviews Fish Tank Kings
Our friend Mark Callahan interviews Mat and Francis of Fish Tank Kings about the the sixteen-episode season two, which premiered this past weekend on NatGeo Wild. The stars of FTK promise a season with less bickering and focus on aquarium builds, livestock, and husbandry.
Coralvue is the new North American distributor for Elos
Corvalue is adding another respected aquarium product company into its growing stable of brands by assuming the North American distributorship for the Italian company, Elos.
Deep refuge ‘can help save our reefs’
Marine scientists from Australia and the USA today called for global efforts to protect deeper coral reefs as insurance against the widespread destruction of shallow reefs and their fish stocks now taking place around the world.
Fast-sinking jellyfish could boost the oceans’ uptake of carbon dioxide
Experiments show high sinking speed for dead gelatinous plankton species.
ThomasVisionReef visits Seth Miller's incredible 180 gallon reef aquarium
We love sharing videos of beautiful aquariums, and we love introducing new aquarium media outlets to you. Today we kill two birds with one stone. ThomasVisionReef is an youtube channel dedicated to reef hobby reporting. We share ThomasVisionReef's video series about a spectacular reef aquarium.
Aquarium Invertebrates: An Introduction to the Mantis Shrimps
These are my favorite invertebrates, and with a little planning and preparation can be fantastic acquisitions for any marine aquarist. In fact, after writing this, I feel a compulsion to go get another one...
A potentially new "Bryozoan Goby" discovered in Indonesia
Ned and Anna DeLoach of www.blennywatcher.com share with us some great photos and video of a potentially undescribed goby which lives within the lacy matrix of bryozoan colonies. Graham Abbott first spotted this unusual tiny goby at Ambon Harbor.
Snail shell coiling programmed by protein patterning
Snail shells coil in response to an lopsided protein gradient across their shell mantles, finds research in BioMed Central's open access journal EvoDevo. In contrast the shell mantle of limpets, whose shells do not coil, have a symmetrical pattern of the protein Decapentaplegic (Dpp).
