Get to know the Red Dragon Mini Bubble King 1500

The Red Dragon Mini Bubble Kind 1500 may have the heart of an Askoll/Laguna pump but it has evolved enough unique adaptations that it’s fair to say that this pump is an entirely new species. The ginormous volute alone considerably…

Royal Exclusiv refreshes BK Mini 200 and Mini Red Dragon for 2013

Hot on the heels of refreshing their online webshop Royal Exclusiv is flaunting two new upgrades to their line of venerable aquarium products – The Bubble King Mini 200 is now available with the Red Dragon 3 speedy and the…

DC Mini Red Dragon 5000 gets a needle wheel makeover for protein skimmer duty

With the redesign of the Red Dragon III line of high performance pumps from Royal Exclusiv it was inevitable that there would be a protein skimmer model in the mix. The DC Red Dragon Mini 5000 and its variable speed…

DC Mini Red Dragon 5000 is the new variable speed workhorse pump from Royal Exclusiv

The DC Mini Red Dragon 5000 is another newly unveiled water pump from Royal Exclusiv. Borrowing from the engineering and design of the RD3 4500, the DC Red Dragon 5000 is also based on a brushless DC motor with very…

Mini Bubble King 160 is the Smallest DC Skimmer from Royal Exclusiv

Royal Exclusiv has one of the most expansive catalogs of protein skimmers in the reef aquarium hobby and today it’s getting just a little bit larger. The Mini Bubble King 160 is the newest protein skimmer from RE and it’s…

Royal Exclusiv Announces New Red Dragon 6 Needle Wheel Pump

The Red Dragon pump is one of the most storied line of water and needle wheel pumps in the high end sector of the reef aquarium hobby. In recent years Royal Exclusiv has been iterating on DC controllable versions of…

SeaLife Introduces Two Mini Dive Lights At DEMA 2017

SeaLife Sea Dragon Mini 900 SeaLife introduces two new mini dive lights at this year DEMA show. The new SeaLife Sea Dragon Mini 900 comes in standard white as well as an exciting new fluoro light. The Sea Dragon Mini…

PolypLab New Live Foods, Tigriopus californicus & Tisbe biminiensis

Tigriopus californicus – if you’ve been reefing for even a short time this is probably the only species of copepod that you know by name. First introduced to the aquarium hobby by Reef Nutrition’s Tigger pods, this species has become…

Proaquatix’s new captive-bred Jackknife Fish: Why you need them!

On June 16, 2015, Proaquatix officially released the news that they’ve successfully spawned and reared the Jackknife Fish, Equetus lanceolatus (see the press release and additional images at the end of this article). This isn’t a species first; captive-breeding of the Jack-Knifefish was…

Bubble Magus Curve 9 semi-cone protein skimmer aiming for the mini-footprint crowd

The Curve 9 cone skimmer from Bubble Magus takes a lot of aesthetic design cues directly from the Royal Exclusiv Kone Skimmer. With a tapering cone shape, the small hole diffuser, large holes for the baffle and the outflow set out from…