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In addition to new products you can find a lot more information about JBL and your hobby here. Events at specialist pet shops, exhibition activities, lectures, workshops and expeditions are announced here.

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02.09.2025

Peru visits JBL

The head of the Peruvian URKU Centre in Tarapoto, Carlos Vecco, visited the JBL factory in Neuhofen. In a few days, he and his botanist Max will welcome the 36-strong JBL team on their expedition to Peru in Iquitos on the Amazon and accompany them to the various biotopes.

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01.07.2025

Join the JBL expedition to Papua New Guinea

The last white spots on our planet are in Papua New Guinea - and that's exactly where JBL Expedition No. 21 will take us in May-June 2027. Ten nights in a beautiful resort at the end of the world, on the edge of untouched jungle and by the sea with intact coral reefs. Endemic animal species, rare sea creatures and original indigenous people without mobile phones. Come along and experience adventure with live aquaristic and terraristic research.

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14.03.2025

The time has come: the new JBL PROPOND pond food programme is being launched!

Well-founded expertise, top quality and the right food for every user at affordable prices: This is the new JBL PROPOND food programme! Following the introduction of the JBL PROPOND concept in 2017, the pond food sector has changed dramatically. Self-service instead of advice is becoming increasingly important and the topic of sustainability is also at the forefront.

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23.01.2025

JBL and mares are happy to continue their co-operation

JBL and the diving equipment manufacturer mares have been working very closely together since 2005. The JBL research team tests mares equipment under the tough conditions during JBL expeditions and provides feedback to mares.

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27.11.2024

The last days to register for the JBL Expedition Peru 2025 are running

The registration deadline for the 15-day JBL expedition to the Amazonian lowland rainforest of Peru and the Andes ends on 1 December 2024. This extraordinarily exciting expedition by the JBL research team will start on 9 September 2025, during which 36 participants will undertake aquaristic and terraristic research under scientific guidance in the waters and surrounding rainforests.

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23.10.2024

JBL team back from Peru for expedition planning

The JBL expedition to Peru in September 2025 will be a real hit: catching discus and angelfish near Iquitos on the Amazon together with the local indigenous people, roaming through the jungle in untouched regions and observing poison dart frogs. Finally, the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu and never-before-explored mountain biotopes...

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24.07.2024

Twelve new episodes filmed for JBL TV

The craggy coastline of Ireland, ice-cold Alpine lakes, in the studio, the pet shop and the Reptilium have all provided backdrops for the next 12 thrilling episodes of JBL TV.

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12.06.2024

JBL runs at the Hockenheimring

For the 20th time JBL took part in the 2024 BASF Company Cup with 14 employees at the Hockenheimring. The Grand Prix race track was extended by a few hundred metres with barrier fences, to make it 5.2 km long. The fastest member of the JBL team...

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24.05.2024

Holidays are coming - no problem with JBL

Who feeds the fish in the aquarium or pond when you go on holiday? It’s especially an issue for terrarium friends, because most of their pets only eat live food. But thanks to JBL, both aquarium and pond enthusiasts now have a solution: an automatic feeder to take over the feeding.

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11.01.2024

JBL supports nature conservation in Peru

The 20th JBL expedition in 2025 will include a trip to the Amazonian lowland rainforest. In the small town of Tarapoto, about an hour's flight from Iquitos on the Amazon, is the Urku Centre, a small station run by biologists

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04.01.2024

No microplastics in JBL products

Synthetic polymer microparticles - also known as microplastics - are a major burden on the environment. They degrade very slowly and are easily absorbed by living organisms.

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07.12.2023

Zu Weihnachten: Im Fachhandel kaufen und JBL zahlt Cashback-Aktion

JBL unterstützt das Weihnachtsgeschäft des Zoofachhandels mit einer wirkungsvollen Cashback-Aktion. Jeder Aquarien-, Terrarien- und Teichfreund, der zwischen dem 15.11.2023 und dem 15.01.2024 JBL Produkte im Fachhandel (in DE, AT, LU, FR, BE und NL) kauft, kann diese kostenlos registrieren und nach dem Hochladen der Kaufbelege je nach Warenwert (ab 50,- €) einen Cashback zwischen 2,5 und 15 % (bei 500,- €) von JBL direkt erhalten!

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25.10.2023

JBL answers your requests: what would you like to see on JBL TV?

JBL TV is the most successful series made by a manufacturer of aquatics, terraristics and pond sector products. Up to 100,000 end consumers use the educational films...

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19.10.2023

Did you know that UV-C water clarifiers can get limescale and then stop working?

If you’ve ever opened your UV-C water clarifier to find out why its effectiveness has diminished so much, you were probably surprised to find the glass tube around the UV-C bulb completely covered in a layer of limescale.

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06.09.2023

JBL Expedition to see discus in Peru

In September 2025 the JBL Expedition #20 will set off for the Andes and the jungle of Peru. Apply on the JBL homepage (www.jbl.de/expedition) to go with the JBL research team.

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30.08.2023

JBL koi feeding in autumn - get your koi fit for the winter

Autumn has only one thing in common with spring and it’s the water temperature! The koi have completely different demands on their food AFTER hibernation in spring and BEFORE hibernation in autumn.

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07.07.2023

The next JBL generation is born

On June 26, 2023, Managing Director Stella Kaltenmeier-Böhme and her husband welcomed a baby son to the world! Mother and baby are doing well and our first interview with the child has revealed that he is sure to follow in her footsteps at JBL! The whole JBL team shares their boss’s joy at the healthy baby! During Stella's maternity leave, her father...

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20.06.2023

JBL Team on the starting blocks in Hockenheim

They weren’t in a car or on a motorbike, the JBL employees were on foot as they circled the 4.8 km course, cheered on by their Managing Director, Stella Kaltenmeier-Böhme.

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16.06.2023

JBL Expedition South Seas 1: Results are reassuring

These days on this planet it hardly matters which coral reefs you go to see: coral bleaching and other reef destruction is sadly the norm. So it’s absolutely good news to hear that the atoll reefs in French Polynesia are completely healthy!

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08.05.2023

JBL makes sustainability its top priority

Along with product quality, sustainability issues are a top priority at JBL. The JBL management and the JBL team are not the only ones who care about the issue

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08.03.2023

JBL Expedition Colombia 2 is online with pictures and videos

If you’ve never snorkelled in the jungle at high tide, now’s your chance to do it virtually. All the results of our scientific research, 500 photos and lots of internationally unique videos are now available on the JBL website.

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15.02.2023

New Podcast - TROPICAL FEVER from JBL

The JBL podcast "TROPENFIEBER - Hobby meets Nature" is directed at all aquarists, terrarium and pond owners, as well as every nature and travel enthusiast. Guests and listeners will join host Matthias Wiesensee to discover a fascinating underwater world, ...

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07.02.2023

JBL PROPOND AUTOFOOD 2.0 - better and stronger

Now and then even the JBL development department is surprised at the things that can break on products. An example of this is when the sturdy base plates in automatic pond feeders break.

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09.12.2022

JBL Expedition 2 - Back from Colombia with new research results

It was not just a second expedition to the same destination to give even more applicants the opportunity to participate in a JBL aquaristic research expedition, it was also ...

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20.09.2022

Water testing in autumn to help combat algae in summer!

Most pond owners unfortunately only test their water when a problem occurs. When the pond turns green in summer (floating algae) or thread algae grow excessively, they follow the recommendation of specialists to test the nutrients that triggered the algae growth.

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26.08.2022

JBL Colombia Expedition: All results, 330 photos and 15 videos on the JBL Website

The many, sometimes surprising, results made the reports on the JBL website the most extensive of all our 16 JBL expeditions to date.

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24.08.2022

The Neuhofen fire brigade does a practice drill at JBL

This week we welcomed the Neuhofen volunteer fire brigade to our premises for a practice drill under the codeword "BMA JBL”.

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28.02.2022

JBL expedition returns from the Colombian rainforest with some surprising results

"The cardinal tetra is not a schooling fish and the altum angelfish lives between boulders" would be the short version of the observations made in several blackwater biotopes and documented by the 34-member team in the lowlands of Colombia! But that’s not all:

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17.12.2021

JBL Expedition 2023: The lesser known beauties of the South Seas!

Why go to Tahiti, Fiji or Bora Bora when there are regions in French Polynesia that are completely free of tourists and biologically intact? The 78 atolls of the Tuamotu archipelago are the destination for our 18th JBL research expedition

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22.11.2021

The all-new JBL app for water testing via smartphone!

There are very few products without competitors. But worldwide there is nothing comparable to JBL PROSCAN!

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22.10.2021

JBL Expedition Colombia 2022 takes place

Due to the corona situation the JBL expedition to Colombia planned for 2021 was postponed to February 2022. As there were over 200 applications from all over the world, JBL decided to carry out this expedition twice.

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25.08.2021

JBL saves even more plastic

JBL has found an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic envelopes

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24.06.2021

JBL modernises and optimises

The job is only to fill some fish food into tins, but it’s much more complicated than you’d think! Sticking on the labels would be easy, if they didn’t have to be in an exact position to the click dispenser lid.

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19.06.2021

JBL videos are becoming more and more popular

Hardly anyone reads instruction manuals anymore - people watch videos on YouTube instead! That’s why JBL’s actively expanding its range of videos.

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14.06.2021

JBL vaccinates its employees

JBL offered all its as yet unvaccinated employees the opportunity to receive the vector-based Johnson & Johnson Corona vaccine, which offers very good protection with just one dose.

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01.02.2021

Sulphuric Acid Notification

The use of Sulphuric acid is common place in aquarium and pond products around the world and these are now affected by a new change in EU law.

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22.01.2021

All Japan Koi Show Cancelled

The world's most important koi fair in Tokyo, organised by the Shinkokai (the professional breeders' association) every year at the beginning of February, has just been officially cancelled.

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07.01.2021

JBL Now In Its Third Generation

When Joachim Böhme founded JBL in Ludwigshafen in 1960, he could only hope that his company would remain in family ownership. When his son, Roland Böhme, took over in 1991, the second generation was assured. Exactly 30 years later, on January 4, 2021, it was time for JBL to enter its third generation with Stella Kaltenmeier-Böhme, Roland Böhme's daughter, at the helm.

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08.12.2020

The new JBL Automatic Pond Feeder, the Perfect Holiday Stand-In

Holiday, weekend, bad weather or simply not in the mood? The JBL PROPOND AUTOFOOD feeds your pond fish as perfectly as you do.

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20.11.2020

The All Japan Koi Show 2021 Is Taking Place - But This Time Without JBL

The JBL Team thought long and hard about it, but finally decided against participating in Tokyo at the end of January 2021.

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06.11.2020

What do Japanese koi breeders do in winter?

Corona has also had its effect on Japanese koi breeders. More and more regular customers are buying online, and they are generally buying cheaper koi. Meeting the breeder for a personal selection at the koi pond has dropped to virtually zero. The top of the range koi are rarely being sold!

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31.08.2020

Shark researcher Dr. Erich Ritter has died

Dr. Erich Ritter, probably the most famous shark researcher, died on 28 Aug 2020 of a heart disease in his adopted home of Florida at the age of only 61. Heiko Blessin, head of the JBL research expeditions, has a personal obituary:

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20.08.2020

JBL Test App Recommended on TV

In the context of setting up aquariums, the popular television programme “hundkatzemaus” on VOX, which has been running for more than 800 episodes with almost 1 million viewers per episode, also dealt with "water tests".

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14.08.2020

JBL has the largest range of water tests worldwide!

With 24 different water analysis tests for freshwater and marine aquariums and ponds as well as 8 different test cases, JBL offers the widest range of water tests worldwide. The second place is shared by two American manufacturers with 15 individual tests each, but with only 0 and 2 test cases respectively.

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06.07.2020

Magazin aquaristik berichtet über JBL Expedition Japan

In issue no. 123, June/July 2020, eight pages of observations and results from JBL’s research into the reefs of the southern Japanese island of Ishigaki were published.

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29.05.2020

JBL ‘s Special Corona Protective Masks

JBL expedition participants and JBL shark workshop participants have T-shirts with dedicated motifs, which are perfect for making their own corona protection masks.

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08.05.2020

The Japanese love JBL ProScan

JBL is not officially represented in Japan, but a lot of Japanese Koi breeders work with JBL water tests and JBL koi food. When Kiyoko Fujita, editor-in-chief of Rinko, Japan's largest Koi magazine ...

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22.04.2020

JBL turns 60 - celebrations to follow …

60 years ago, JBL founder Joachim Böhme, father of the current general manager Roland Böhme, was fed up of sick fish! His hobby had developed into a pet shop, then into an ornamental fish wholesaler and then

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09.04.2020

JBL Expedition Kolumbien im Magazin aquaristik

Wer die Ankündigung für die JBL Expedition 2021 nach Kolumbien noch nicht mitbekommen oder auf der JBL Homepage noch nicht gelesen hat, kann in der neuesten Ausgabe des Magazins aquaristik (3/2020) noch einmal nachlesen, was er verpassen würde!

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09.03.2020

JBL Expedition to Colombia - the details are sorted

All the details of the schedule, the biotopes, the animals, the conditions on site and the food are available to view.

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04.03.2020

JBL’s new all season solution for pond fish!

With the new JBL PROPOND STAPLE granulated food you can feed your pond fish with high-quality food all year round!

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14.02.2020

Join the JBL Expedition once again - but this time online and free of charge!

For everyone who loves Japan, was on the JBL Expedition or would have liked to have been there:

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11.02.2020

JBL has hired four more plant operators

Operating food production machinery is a complicated matter. Adding raw materials has to be accurate to the gram and ...

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29.01.2020

Meet our JBL Team at the All Japan Koi Show in Tokyo

On 1-2 February the Shinkokai (professional koi breeders association) Koi-Show is taking place again in Tokyo. Japan’s best koi will be exhibited there in all categories and the Grand Champion will be chosen. In 2019 this champion was sold afterwards for €1.5m!

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24.01.2020

JBL erfüllt vorbildlich Kundenwünsche – sagt ein Focus- und FocusMoney-Test

20.000 Unternehmen in 350 Millionen deutschsprachigen Online Quellen wurden untersucht. Basis der Studie sind 50 Millionen Aussagen der untersuchten Firmen vom Sommer 2018 bis 2019. Über diese Auszeichnung freut sich wirklich das gesamte JBL Team!

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16.12.2019

Mit JBL zwei §11-Scheine in einem Rutsch

Erstmalig hatten 15 Teilnehmer im Oktober und dann 16 Anwärter im November die Möglichkeit, die §11-Sachkundenachweise gemäß Tierschutzgesetz für Aquaristik UND Teich in einer Veranstaltung zu erwerben.

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02.12.2019

JBL Japan Expedition returns

Never has a JBL expedition been so varied: pet shops in Tokyo - Japanese culture in Nikko - koi breeders in Mushigame – marine water research near Ishigaki and a jungle with freshwater biotopes at Iriomote!

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29.11.2019

JBL Influencer Days - Online meets Offline Vol. 4 - 24 Hours with JBL

Last weekend JBL hosted the 4th Influencer Days "Online meets Offline", in which 15 popular influencers took part and spent 24 hours with JBL and the other influencers.

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20.11.2019

The new JBL Pond Manual 2.0 has arrived!

136 pages of useful information about garden ponds and koi in one free manual!

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09.09.2019

Golden Trophy for JBL

We are pleased to announce that for a second time in a row JBL has won the Golden Trophy award for the aquarium and pond category. Coming ahead of again our competition including Tetra and Sera. Also for the first time JBL have won the Bronze trophy for pond accessories category.

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