Jedi Master Jamie Craggs is the aquarium curator from the Horniman Museum who, just a few weeks ago, made headlines with his successful in-vitro fertilization of captive coral . The Force is strong with Jamie Craggs' new coral settlement tiles, Â created from a galaxy...
It's time for the second installment of "Tips For Beginner Breeders"! Last time, we covered seahorses, and I hope you took my tips into consideration and tried your hand at breeding and rearing some of these great animals. This time, we are going to talk about goby...
One of my favorite exhibits to take care of at the Long Island Aquarium is our frogfish exhibit. It's a small focus display of around 36 gallons and is home to four personable frogfish: one Antennarius maculatus, one Antennarius pictus and two Antennarius commerson....
Summer is over; fall has seized Long Island. The waters are cooling down, the tropical fish that we've enjoyed collecting all season will soon be gone from our bays and inlets. At the LI Aquarium, the summer exhibits are closing and the visiting crowds have changed...
2015 has been quite the year for captive-bred fishes! We have seen such a variety of new things, as well as a great stride of species firsts! ORA has done it again with a brand new goby species! The Transparent Cave Goby (Fusigobius pallidus) is also known as the Pale...
Sea & Reef's newest strain of clownfish is so beautiful; when the company posted about this clown earlier today, I practically fell out of my seat! This is the first time that I have been this excited about a clownfish since the introduction of the Lightning...
Following Todd's success with catching a Blue Angelfish (Holacanthus bermudensis), my coworker Phil Argiros was lucky enough to catch another Blue Angel! Although they make their way to Long Island through the gulfstream, it is still very rare to see them here. In...
Today while checking up on one of my larval rearing tanks, I spotted something unusual. At first, I thought that one of the larvae had consumed something that was too large for it because it looked like its stomach was protruding. I removed the larva to further...
Ain't no party like a spawn party, 'cause a spawn party don't stop! You read that right: spawn party. Here at the Long Island Aquarium & Exhibition Center we have a spawn party about once a month. What's a spawn party, you ask? It's exactly what it sounds like. We...
It's the most wonderful time of the year… the North East Reef Aquarium Conference or better known as NERAC! That's right, folks! Coming up this Saturday, March 21st is NERAC IX, home of some of the greatest memories you could ever have. This year is going to be EPIC,...