Your guide to a thriving reef

Keeping Anemones
Just as with all marine critters, you need to make sure you know what you’re getting yourself into before getting an anemone. What they truly need to thrive might surprise you. The below is based on my first...
Feeding Corals
Corals (with a few exceptions) will do very well without being feed when provided with the proper environment within a mature set-up. Feeding corals will often accelerate their growth. When it comes...
Good Starter Fish and Clean-up Crew Options
So, now after deciding to set-up your first marine aquarium and having your patients tested to the limit waiting for your tank to become cycled, you are now ready to add your first inhabitants. Wither...
Good Corals for Beginners: Mushroom Corals
Mushroom corals are a great choice for a beginner coral. They are a soft coral and among the hardiest of corals commonly found in the hobby today which can tolerate less than idea water conditions for short...

Welcome to ReefAquarium.com

A well maintained reef aquarium can be a truly stunning sight and is a dream for many aquarists. Here at reefaquarium.com we try to provide you with the information you need to keep different types of marine critters happy and healthy.

Here you can read guides that will help you to take your first steps on the road to the reef aquarium of your dream.
Get inspired by stories about some of the most beautiful reef aquariums in the world.
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Although we believe that most saltwater aquarists would like to keep a reef aquarium at some point we also feature information about how to keep fish only, Fish Only With Live Rock (FOWLR) and planted saltwater aquariums. These aquariums can not only be a great way to learn the skills needed to one day keep a reef aquarium but can also be stunning, fascinating aquariums in their own right. That is one of the reason that most, not to say all, dedicated reef aquarium keepers also keep FOWLR aquariums as well.

Some Basic Guidlines for LED Lighting in Aquariums

01 Mar 2014

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When looking at getting LED lighting for your aquarium, it can seam overwhelming when considering all the features and options that you will have to choose from. However, it doesn't have to be all that...

14 Feb 2014

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One of the growing trends that I have seen (and experienced) is that flukes are becoming more and more common in the hobby. It used to be that fluke were more common on only certain types of fish, but more...

Converting a Freshwater Aquarium into a Saltwater Aquarium

08 Feb 2014

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So after keeping a freshwater aquarium, you now have decided to try out a marine aquarium.While there are many similarities between the two, there are also some differences.Marine is not any harder to set-up...

Invasive Xenia Corals Established in the Caribbean

17 Jan 2014

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Thriving populations of Indo-Pacific Xenia has been found on reefs in Venezuela. Xenia corals are very quick growing and might pose as serious treat to the native reefs and the species living on them....

New Species: Yellow eye sweeper, Pempheris flavicycla

10 Jan 2014

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Yellow eye sweeper, Pempheris flavicycla is a newly described species that would be perfect for the aquarium trade. The species originates from the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. It is a rather colorful species...

New Species of Blenny – Haptoclinus dropi

09 Jan 2014

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A new species of Deep water blenny has been described. The new Species was collected from depths of between 157 and 167 m (just under 500 ft) in the vecinity of Curaco (12°05.069'N, 68°53.886'W, ). The species...

ORA Releasese Blue Hypnea – Stunning Macro Algae

08 Jan 2014

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I am a big fan of Macro algae and would really want to setup a large planted marine setup one day. I find macro algae to be worthy of a lot more attention than they get today and that they often are nothing...

Favia camranensis – a new species of moon brain coral

07 Jan 2014

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A new species of moon brain coral have been described by Yuri Latypov. The new species is called Favia camranensis and it might already have made it into the aquarium trade with other moon corals. It is also...

New species, Cappuccino basslet – canthoplesiops cappuccino

06 Jan 2014

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A new stunning little basslet species have been described. Acanthoplesiops cappuccino or the Cappuccino basslet. This small species was discovered in the Red Sea and was described by Anthony Gill et. al. The name...

Mangarahara Cichlid Saved?

04 Jan 2014

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Time for a feel good story. Earlier this year the Zoological Society of London thought they had the two of the last 3 Mangarahara Cichlid , Ptychochromis insolitus in the world. The last fish was in Berlin....