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Imagine cruising the Caribbean on your luxury yacht and being able to enjoy watching an exact replica of the region’s exotic marine life in your ship board custom aquarium!
X-ray of a trio of Lookdown Fish (Selene vomer)
(from Smithsonian’s sites.si.edu website)
The Smithsonian’s National Collection of Fishes is the largest and most diverse collection of its kind, with an estimated four million individual fish specimens representing more than 70 percent of the world’s fish species.
HPAquaristik – a LFS in Germany – spared no expense with their main reef display. Their 3,600 liter (950 gallon) aquarium features LED lighting which simulates some of the most natural cloud cover and thunderstorms I’ve seen.
These are two lanternfish and several bits of plastic collected during the SEAPLEX voyage. Photo J. Leicther
Two graduate students with the Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition, or SEAPLEX, found evidence of plastic waste in more than nine percent of the stomachs of fish collected during their voyage to the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.
Series of images showing a Tuskfish using a rock as an anvil to crack open a cockle shell.
In the above time-lapse photos spanning roughly 75 seconds, diver S. Gardner photo-documents a black spot tuskfish, Choerodon schoenleinii, using a stone as an anvil to break open a cockle shell.
Marine Breeding Initiative Workshop 2011
The Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) is an organization and website created for the sole purpose of encouraging marine breeding among hobbyists and professionals.
Reed Mariculture’s Latest Contest
Reed Mariculture’s new product line naming contest will close on June 30, 2011 so hurry over to RM-Ideas.com to enter.
We covered the new website and contest on April 1 and as a refresher, Reed Mariculture launched RM-Ideas.com
Mycobacterium marinum micrograph.
Initially, she thought nothing of the scratch that she received while working with her freshwater aquarium. However, once it became infected and would not stop oozing, her mother became concerned.
Fragmenting an interesting Acroporid.
Between April 26th and June 10th, scientists traveled to the Philippines for the largest expeditions in the history of the California Academy of Sciences.
Daves Reef snapshot from 06-13-2011 at 0930 AM.
It is hoped that the photo-documentation being collected will help scientists learn more about coral bleaching as well as species variability and behavior within the area.