by Josh Saul | Dec 14, 2012 | Aquaculture, Fish
News from our friends over at ORA today, the release of their first captive bred Assessor randalli. These fish are very popular amongst hobbyists due to their habit of swimming upside down. ORA has been breeding yellow assessors for quite some time but this is their... by Tal Sweet | Oct 24, 2012 | Aquaculture, Corals, Events, Fish
Last weekend I was honored to speak at the Bay Area Reefers Propagation Workshop along with the incredible Richard Ross. Rich and I arrived a little bit later than planned since we had to stop at Home Depot to pick up some fragging tools for his... by Josh Saul | Oct 23, 2012 | Aquaculture, Corals, Industry
Sometime in the past year, a super secret meeting spawned a new business on Long Island in New York.  Someone was probably drinking Kraken rum when they posited the idea of ReefGen, a new farming organization focused on unusual and unique... by Marc Levenson | Oct 17, 2012 | Aquaculture, Invertebrates, Opinion
Hi Marc, My name is Dennis and I am still kinda new to this. I have a 90gal RR tank with a 35 gal refugium. I have a mandarin and want to be sure he is getting copepods. I can see them in the first stage of my [sump] (where the overflow and my skimmer are) - they are everywhere swimming around. But when I look in the middle section (where the cheatomorpha and Miracle Mud are) I am not seeing them as much, maybe a glimpse of one or two. The same with the return pump section, by Todd Gardner | Sep 26, 2012 | Aquaculture, Fish
The first captive-bred candy bass, Liopropoma carmabi, has finally reached market size and is headed to Dynasty Marine today – and it only took 9... by Todd Gardner | Sep 25, 2012 | Aquaculture, Equipment, Fish, Science
It’s been several months since I raised my first Lipogramma klayi at the Long Island Aquarium. Sadly, I’ve only had two more reach settlement since then. One of the bottlenecks to the mass production of this beautiful deepwater basslet, as well as other grammatids,...