by Admin | Feb 7, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
I don't like to shame anyone, but I couldn't get over this eBay aquarium listing. This is the most expensive and dangerous used 180 gallon system I've seen. For $5,000, you can own the big aquarium, its canister filter, its goldfish/koi, and the tank's alarmingly undersized cabinet. by Admin | Feb 6, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
Ultra Coral Australia recently acquired two mushroom corals with special characteristics. The first is a Rhodactis sp. discoved by Nic Dos Santos that resembles the famous (and expensive) WWC "Bounce" - a deep purple polyp with pronounced contrasting orange "bubbles." by Admin | Feb 6, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
A new goby species was discovered in a freshwater stream last year and recently formally described. Stiphodon niraikanaiensis is a neat little bottom-dweller whose dimorphic males and females are both subtlety lovely. by Admin | Feb 5, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
Segrest Farms posted new photos of their weird fish, this time shot from conventional angles (instead of the top-down/through-water photos from yesterday). The new side view show the fish is a very unique aberrant moorish idol. by Admin | Feb 5, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist
We shared a video the "Dakota Reef" in January of 2013. One full year later, the already spectacular cube reef has grown even more stunning. Check out the 2012 vs 2013 photo comparison and the newest video of this aquatic masterpiece. by Advanced Aquarist | Feb 5, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist, Corals, Invertebrates
A new, stunningly red coral species, Psammogorgia hookeri, has been collected by scuba divers from rocky ledges at depths to 25 meters in Peru's Paracas National Reserve.
