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We have select JBJ Titanium Heaters and Brightwell Aquatics coral food on sale today at an incredible price! Sale ends tonight at Midnight (Pacific Time), and includes FREE USA SHIPPING! Hurry! Limited quantities available!

11.14.14 Aloha Friday Eye Candy.... Porcupine Puffer Fish, Curaćao   11.07.14 Aloha Friday Eye Candy.... School of Blue Striped Snappers, Oahu, Hawaii   10.24.14  Aloha Friday Eye Candy.... Mated Pair of Cuttlefish, Phuket, Thailand   10.17.14 Aloha Friday Eye Candy.... Carnation Coral (Dendronephthya sp.), Phuket, Thailand.   10.10.14 Aloha Friday Eye Candy.... Greater Argonaut (Argonauta Nodosa) - Paper Nautilus Photo Credit ~ Robert Sisson   09.26.14 Aloha Friday Eye Candy.... Pair of Melon Butterfly Fish, Phuket, Thailand   09.12.14 Chambered Nautilus (Nautilus pompilius) Osprey Reef, Australia Photo Credit ~ Michelle Hall   09.05.14 Aloha Friday Eye Candy.... Hawkfish, Oahu, Hawaii...

How to acclimate your new corals. Your Beautiful New Frag! This is a question I get a lot, and while you can ask a dozen different people the best way to acclimate corals and get a dozen different answers, some coral acclimation tips are universal.  Step 1: Equalize the temperature. Float your newly arrived corals in your aquarium, with the shipping bags still fully sealed, for about 10-15 minutes. This will allow the temperature to to equalize to your aquarium's temperature. Equalize the Temperature! Step 2: Acclimate to your water and inspect. Open the bag and mix with some water...

SLIME TIME PROBLEMS! Yes, the dreaded red slime algae..... it happens to everyone at some point or another. Nasty Red Slime Algae Can Ruin the Beauty of your Reef Tank! From my experience with this, it's usually a combination of several factors that contribute to the presence of red slime algae (cyanobacteria). The first culprit being high carbon dioxide (and possibly low oxygen) levels as a result low water flow, high nitrate and/or phosphate levels, and lastly too long of a photo period on your lighting. The best way to treat it is to take a multiple treatment approach, but...

I was going to write a post about #SharkWeek, but decided that the takeaway can be summarized in one sentence and therefore not worthy of an article. Despite the insipid content and blatant fear mongering, Shark Week does ultimately serve as a force of good by raising awareness of sharks and their importance to ocean ecosystems. Besides that, I love sharks and especially love seeing sharks when diving and getting the chance to photograph them underwater. When you have a 6+ foot shark swimming around you by the reef, you suddenly realize how completely out of your element you truly...