by AquaNerd | Jun 18, 2019 | Aquaculture, Fish
Sea & Reef has been busy releasing new varieties of captive bred fish over the last 3 weeks and today they announced a third captive bred variety in as many weeks. The new release is called the Gold Lightning Maroon clownfish. We learned from Sea & Reef that the Gold Lightning Maroon Clownfish is a designer clownfish that was created by breeding a Sea & Reef Lightning Maroon Clownfish with a Sea & Reef Gold Nugget Clownfish. The offspring from this unique crossing display a variety of interesting patterns. The Gold Lightning Maroon (Premnas biaculeatus) reaches a maximum size of about 6″ (15 cm) in length. A remarkable feature about the Gold Nugget Maroon is that they start out white. As the fish matures, the color changes from by Afishionado | Jun 14, 2019 | Aquaculture, Conservation, Corals, Video
For this video, we headed to downtown Miami, Florida to visit Dr. Rivah Winter, the Inventor in Residence and Curator of Aquarium Content & Marine Science at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science.… by Jen Lowy | Jun 3, 2019 | Aquaculture, Fish
Have you ever been so excited about getting a fish that you can’t sleep for a day or two beforehand? I went through just that this week- so much excitement and Friday couldn’t come soon... by Afishionado | Mar 29, 2019 | Aquaculture, Conservation, Video
The Horniman Museum and Gardens’ pioneering coral reproduction work, Project Coral (as seen on BBC One’s Blue Planet UK, yesterday), has this week taken a step closer to having real-world benefit for coral reef conservation, thanks to international partner The... by Afishionado | Mar 19, 2019 | Aquaculture, Fish, Video
Continuing with our Aquaculture and captive bred success stories, I want to share with you a major accomplishment in the world of Aquaculture that happened a few years back. The success of captive breeding the yellow tang, Zebrasoma flavescens.… by Marcin Smok | Mar 16, 2019 | Aquaculture, Events, Photography
The New England Frag Farmers Market, possibly the most unique and biggest reef aquarium show on this side of the Mississippi, came back for its 12th year this March and boy did it come big! Despite the dreadful weather that Saturday morning, people turned out in...
