Two Smooth Trunkfish, Lactophrys triqueter
Good morning amigos, how is your week treating you? Our submersible just took off into the deep abyss with two guests from the States and won’t be back for at... Read more.
Creating Concrete Reefs
I’m fascinated by how conservationists create artificial reefs in the wild, but always thought they built them on the sea floor…not in this case! …... Read more.
What is the ESA?
Reading the chatter swirling around the reef aquarium hobby, it seems like many aquarists are upset that the first popular home aquarium fish, the Banggai cardinalfish,... Read more.
EcoTech Marine launches Coral Lab project
EcoTech Marine has grown from a small start-up to a market leader in advanced aquarium technology. From their humble beginnings manufacturing a kalkreactor... Read more.
Minnesota to hold aquarium fish donation drive
Released goldfish become destructive feral carps.The University of Minnesota Sea Grant and the Minnesota Aquarium Society have teamed up to offer aquarists... Read more.
It’s ok to judge a fish by its tail
Odontanthias borbonius … and its drastic V tail.James Cook University researchers discovered a “caudal fin aspect ratio” that turns... Read more.
Good News for Manatees
Normally, being placed in the ‘at risk’ category is not good news for a marine mammal, except, that is, when it was formerly in the ‘endangered’ one.…... Read more.
Gift for gab: Schooling fish are chatty
Photo by Taveuni Palms Resort (C.C. BY)From the University of Auckland’s Institute of Marine Science: Safety in numbers: fish stick together... Read more.
The Banggai Cardinalfish: Threatened with Extinction
For some time, I’ve held the belief that if the aquarium trade didn’t invest in current, real-world data about the aquarium fisheries’ role on wild fish populations,... Read more.
New pleco species is splendid
Live specimen of Hypancistrus margaritatusIt appears Hypancistrus margaritatus is the formal name given to a pleco aquarists have previously identified... Read more.