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The AI Hydra LED light is a surprise from left field by AquaIllumination which is going to be available quite soon. It’s been great having AquaIllumination cranking out new product releases including the AI Vega, New Controller, EXT Rail, Powerpucks, the AI Sol upgrade kit, the forthcoming AI Director and MyAI, so now the AI…

The Red Sea leopard wrasse has long been considered a subspecies of the common and widespread splendid leopard wrasse, Macropharyngodon bipartitus. A recent analysis by the fish man himself John Randall revealed that these two fishes are different enough to warrant being separate species, and the difference is not as subtle as you’d think. Like…

The Australian Institute of Marine Science has released a time lapse video of Davies Reef in Australia which shows this little patch of the GBR over a period of 18 months. The image quality used to compose the time lapse is not going to make the cover of NatGeo magazine but it is still very impressive to…

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ReefLink is the name of Ecotech Marine‘s new wireless hub of product or products discovered in a recent trademark filing. The documentation sniffed out by Reefs describes ReefLink as “Electronic controllers for aquarium equipment”, also of the programmable kind, offering some clue that the new device could be at the very least a bridge to

Pseudanthias oumati is a new species of Anthias which like yesterday’s Plectranthias flammeus was described in the same paper. The single female specimen of Pseudanthias oumati doesn’t divulge much about what makes it a distinct new species as we can expect the males to mature and display entirely different coloration. The name of Pseudanthias oumati

The South Pacific Ocean is a hotbed of new species right now with Plectranthias flammeus just the latest visually striking reef fish to be thoroughly described. Discovered living in the waters of the Marquesas Islands around French Polynesia, unlike many other newly described Plectranthias, P. flammeus occurs in the relatively shallow waters of 20-45 meters (65-150ft) deep.

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The pulsing Xenia has been a scientific mystery for that last 200 years since it was first discovered by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829). Why does this particular coral spend so much energy pulsating? Corals are extremely efficient organisms and do not waste energy unless there is compelling enough benefit — in this case nutrients. Why does the Heteroxenia fuscescens go through

Eviota pamae is a newly described species of goby which shows that although there’s a lot of beautiful new species being discovered, some more beautiful than others. Looking every bit like a miniature of the coveted sunrise hogfish from Hawaii, the sunrise dwarf goby from Indonesia is incredible in living pictures. Two broad red stripes

The innovate Marine MiniMax media reactors are seriously cool media reactors for the All-in-one nano crowd, mainly due to the fact that the media is removable from the reactor making them optimal for top and rear loading into back compartments. The MiniMax reactors furthermore allow easy flow adjustment with the same knob used to remove

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The bandit angelfish is also known as the black banded angelfish due to the black stripe that extends from the fishes face, over its eye and back to the dorsal fin. They may also be known as hawaiian pearlyscale angelfish because of the shimmering white coloration that makes up the majority of their scales.

Bandit angels require a large tank of at least 180 gallons with plenty of liverock for grazing. They can become quite territorial as they mature. The natural diet of the bandit angel is based on sponges which means they can be extremely difficult to acclimatize to aquarium life and foods. They may nip at stony and soft corals as well as clam mantels, so care should be taken when attempting to keep bandit angels in reef aquariums.

Adaptation to captive aquarium foods is extremely hard to accomplish with bandit angelfish, but this one began eating Elite Reef Cuisine right away.

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