A giant clam sits on the bottom of the sea at the Great Barrier Reef. Photo by Steve Evans / Flickr.
Cairns Marine, Australia’s largest family-owned aquarium collection business in operation for over three generations, is concerned about new Australian legislation that will impact them in 2014.
The Spangled darter, Etheostoma obama.
The newly discovered species of freshwater darter are all from the genus Etheostoma, commonly known as “darters,” although several other genera also have “darters” in them as well.
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Over the last several months, I blogged about 3D printing and how it is useful to our hobby. I showed that with a 3D printer, one can build:
Now I would like to showcase some of the things other aquarium keepers have made for their aquariums:
Thingiverse member Tracy Ireland wanted an easy way to mount his neptune Systems Aqua Controller Lunar Simulator LEDs (LSM) on an aquarium.
Underwater cinematographer Mike deGruy posthumously honored for his lifetime achievements in videography.
Considered the most prestigious award in the diving realm, Mike received the Distinguished Service award Friday at the 52nd Annual Academy of Underwater Arts & Sciences NOGI Awards Gala at Harrah’s Las Vegas.
Is it Xenia or is it a mimic?
Here at Advanced Aquarist, we love mimics from fish that mimic flatworms, to mimic octopuses, to fish that mimic mimic octopuses. Blennywatcher.com just reminded me of another mimic I love: Phyllodesmium rudmani, the xenia-mimicing nudibranch.
This years MACNA will be held at the world renowned Westin Diplomat Hotel of Hollywood Florida and they are expanding the show room floor for MACNA!
As people know, MACNA 2013 is taking place August 30 – September 1 in sunny Ft.
Behavioral postures associated with vocalizations and exhibited by A frenatus during agonistic interactions. A) Dominant individual chasing subordinate while producing aggressive sounds.
Color Elements is a new product from Fauna Marin.
Color Elements is a new product line from Fauna Marin (an Advanced Aquarist sponsor). According to Fauna Marin, Coral Elements are a “novel mix of growth and color enhancing trace elements, based on a unique and experimentally confirmed recipe, which perfectly adopts to modern artifical seasalt mixes.
The terrestrial hermit crab Coenobita compressus lives inside a discarded snail shell and forages for plants and carrion along the Pacific coast from Mexico to Peru. Photos by Mark Laidre, UC Berkeley.
Fig. 1 a A healthy queen angelfish H. ciliaris (about 35 cm total length) and b A pughead H. ciliaris (about 30 cm total length) at St. Peter and St. Paul Archipelago, Mid Atlantic Ridge, Brazil
A pughead skeletal deformity is where the entire top jaw is compressed downward, which ends up making the bottom jaw look like it is pushed outward.