The International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest (IAPLC) 2015 brought in over 2,545 entries from 69 counties around the world. This is one epic aquascaping competition! Aquascaping is an art form that takes talent, patience and creativity. In this year's competition,...
There has been a lot of controversy over Sea World in recent years, especially since the debut of the 2013 film 'BlackFish'. The California Coastal Commission has unanimously approved Sea World's $100 million project to double the size of the killer whale exhibit, but...
I have great admiration for the work that the Curacao Sea Aquarium is doing with deep water fish. A fact highlighted on an early episode of Fish Tank Kings where the team uses the Curasub to collect a number of deep water fish for a project at the Florida Aquarium. In...
Jumping in the water to get face to face with sharks is a great way to teach people that these creatures are ones to be admired rather than feared. Now, with Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium's unique new program, diving with sharks just became a lot more accessible to...
I spent 6 years managing various public and commercial aquarium projects in the Middle East including a number in Dubai and the surrounding Emirates. As such, I am all too familiar with Dubai's love of designing large, unusual, and extravagant aquariums, and I can...
Now here is a story that I found it quite hard to believe until I checked the source and saw it was from the very credible Scientific American. There are few places that seem less  coral attack than Anchorage, Alaska. And yet the coral managed to poison around a dozen...
Australia's coral reefs are under attack from the rapidly reproducing crown-of-thorns starfish. The crown-of-thorns starfish currently pose one of the greatest threats to the Great Barrier Reefs. According to research by the Australian Institute of Marine Science,...
A photo is worth a thousand words. And you have to check out this mind blowing photo of a seal catching a ride on the back of a humpback whale off the New South Wales coast in Australia. At first look, it looks like the seal is surfing or almost walking on water until...
Love them or hate them, the folks from animal planet's Tanked (acrylic tank manufacturing) continue to make headlines and some very interesting aquariums. One of the latest projects, which was featured on Friday's season premiere episode, focused on designing a tank...
This is pretty awesome. The Crowns Of Thorns Starfish Robot (COTSBot)is a submarine with a purpose: it hunts down crown of thorns starfish and gives them a lethal injection. The COTSBot "is designed to operate without a tether, and execute missions with minimal human...