by Advanced Aquarist | Sep 1, 2025 | Advanced Aquarist, Corals
This is the deepest any Acropora has been found on the Great Barrier Reef to date! by Admin | Aug 18, 2025 | Advanced Aquarist, Fish
Outperforming the 'mirror' camouflage strategy by up to 80%, lookdowns can also manipulate how their bodies reflect plane polarized light making themselves even more invisible in open water. by Leonard Ho | Jun 30, 2025 | Advanced Aquarist, Corals
Off Okinawa, divers discovered what is possibly the largest single coral colony ever documented in Japanese waters. The herculean coral, a Pavona clavus, measures an astounding 24 meters (78 feet) in length, 17 meters (55 feet) in width, and ten meters (33 feet) in height. by Admin | Jun 9, 2025 | Advanced Aquarist, Invertebrates
A lot of beautiful crayfish are being discovered in tropical Asia. It's America's turn. Procambarus holifieldi is a new 'mud bug' discovered in a low-lying field in Perry County, Alabama. by Marijke Puts | Feb 27, 2025 | Advanced Aquarist, Invertebrates
Booty shakers, starfish torturers, swaying dancers, underwater gunslingers, and candy cane crustaceans. What do all of these have in common? They’re shrimp that you can buy at your local aquarium store!… by Leonard Ho | Jan 20, 2025 | Advanced Aquarist, Fish
Aquarists who keep wrasses know they are inquisitive, mischievous, and dare-we-say 'intelligent' animals. A recent research paper describes Ornate Wrasses exploiting starfish to hunt sea urchins.