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Coral Smuggler Jailed In Manchester
A man who tried to smuggle more than 700 rare and endangered corals and clams into the UK has been jailed.
Lionfish Attacking Atlantic Ocean Like A Living Oil Spill
A gluttonous predator is power-eating its way through reefs from New York to Venezuela. It's the lionfish. And although researchers are coming up with new ways to protect some reefs from the flamboyant maroon-striped fish, they have no hope of stopping its unparalleled invasion. Lad Akins has scuba dived in the vibrant reefs of the Bahamas for many years. But when he returned a couple years ago, he saw almost no fish smaller than his hand. ...
Great News for Sharks.
A group of 23 luxury hotels have pledged to ban shark fin soup, as part of a campaign to halt the decline of shark populations....
The Salty Box Supports the Big Fish Campaign
The Salty Box is Officially Supporting the Big Fish Campaign. Read more to find out what its all about and how you can help....
Extinct Hermit Crab Found Alive!!
A submarine dive discovered a species of hermit crab that was previously only known through dead, dried specimens procured more than a century ago....
Air Pollution Stunts Coral Growth
We are used to hearing about the threats that coral reefs face from ocean acidification and warming, but now, a potential new threat from air borne particles has been uncovered, placing even greater pressures on our already depleted reefs....
Castaway
Marine debris from the March 2011 Japanese tsunami is still washing up on distant shores. Last month (two years and ten days after the tsunami), a Japanese fishing skiff finally came ashore 5,000 miles away on a Washingon State beach. To scientists' surprise, a single reef fish survived the two year boat-ride!...
Panta Rhei Announce New Pump for the Home Aquarium
Panta Rhei have become well known for their suberb Hydro wizard pumps. Designed to shift huge amounts of water for the very large home or public aquarium, Panta Rhei are now looking towards the hobbyist market, with smaller models available. The latest of which is the Hydrojet 18,000lt an hour centrifugal pump....
South Yorkshire fish food manufacturer New Era nets its first business award!
New Era Aquaculture, the Thorne-based company revolutionising the fish food market, is celebrating its first business award, confident that it may not be its last!...
Aquatics Live 2012
Building on the success of its launch and now in its second year, Aquatics Live is moving to a bigger and better location at London Olympia....
Foam Swept In As Gales Hit Scotland - Nature's Skimmer!
The high winds sweeping the country forced foam from the North Sea onto land at Aberdeen's Footdee area at the beach on Tuesday morning. The spume left cars, streets and houses looking as if they had been hit by a sudden snow storm....
UK's largest ever illegal coral seizure - Manchester Airport
The largest ever live rock coral seizures has been made at Manchester Airport after it was illegally imported into the country....
Shop Feature - Clearwater Aquatics
Clearwater Aquatics was established by Yoosaf and Shabir, being Discus specialists, breeders of many rare strains and experts in fishkeeping, with a combined 50 years experience, The natural progression was to open a shop.....
TMC Launch New Fiji Blue Aquabeam 600
The new TMC Aquabeam featuring Cree Royal Blue XP-E LEDs with an emissions peak of 445nm is sure to be a hit with hobbyists to really make those colours pop!...
The New ATU-PRO from Reefloat
The first and only user programmable unit will only be available direct from Reefloat.com...
Marine Habitat Magazine Launches iPhone App
The ever popular Marine Habitat Magazine has now gone mobile and found itself into the App Store....
Bringing Juwel Bulbs Up To Date - iQuatics
iQuatics, an innovative UK manufacturer of high quality, low cost Aquarium lighting products, has now released two of their most popular bulbs in Juwel and Aquatlantic Aquarium compatible sizes....
Marine Fish and Inverts to Avoid
With so many fish and inverts gracing our marine shops these days, we thought we would knock together a quick list of those to be avoided. Of course this is only a guide and we always always say do your research before buying any livestock for your tank....
How to Culture Copepods
This article is to help you 'The normal reefer' to culture Copepods at home to help with Mandarin feeding. Copepods are a small planktonic crustacean usually measuring 1-2mm in length, they have a drop shaped body and antennae......
Why maintain your powerheads?
Powerheads will develop a build up of calcified crap and coraline. Although most reefers promote this growth in their aquarium, it's not a good thing to allow it to build up on your equiptment....
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