by Admin | May 15, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
Participating in freshwater aquarium communities, there are three truths we've learned. People love cories, plecos, and are cray cray for crayfish. A new tiny Gramastacus sp. crayfish was discovered in a most unlikely place: a tropical swamp at New South Wales, one of Australia's most developed areas. by Admin | May 14, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
Readers of Advanced Aquarist may remember the Curacao deepwater Golden Basslet, Liopropoma aberrans, which was first collected and sold in 2011 for an speculated $~9000 USD. As it turns out, DNA barcoding of mysterious fish larva revealed that this fish was actually not L.aberrans but rather a new species, Liopropoma olneyi! by Admin | May 13, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
Zachary Long of FengLong Photography spent the better part of a day shooting professional time lapse photography of Georgia Aquarium, and boy was it was time well spent! His video makes an already impressive massive public aquarium that much more spectacular. by Admin | May 12, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
Martin Moe is updating the legendary book that shaped the marine aquarium hobby! The (New) Marine Aquarium Reference will be released in a greatly expanded and updated five volume ebook series. Volume I: The Chemical Environment is now available. by Admin | May 9, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
There isn't much aquarium or science news to report this week, so we thought we'd wrap up our week with this outstanding photo starring two of the cutest reef gobies you may ever see. The photo was taken by our friend, Ned DeLoach, of blennywatcher.com by Admin | May 8, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
Here is a fascinating experimental video by Dustin Adamson of oceanshutter.com using a 8mm fisheye lens. The extreme barrel distortion provides an unique, exciting, and slightly dizzying view of Pacific tropical reef life ... kind of like a super awesome live snow globe.