Nine potentially new reef species discovered in Bali, Indonesia (with photos)
Photos courtesy of Conservation International’s Bali Rapid Assessment Program. Photos by Gerald Allen and Mark ErdmannThe two week survey of 33 r... Read more.
AquaTouch offers two of the most rare and expensive fishes for sale
Both Liopropoma aberrans and Jeboehlkia gladifer are extreme deep water Atlantic species (we’re talking 150+ meter / 500+ feet). Both specimens were... Read more.
Inbound: Passer Angels, Cortez Angels, Blue Spot Jawfish, and Limbaughi Chromis
Along with the rare (first ever) Splittail Bass we introduced yesterday, these popular Eastern Pacific tropical fishes will once again be available to marine aq... Read more.
Rare deep water fishes from the Sea of Cortez – coming soon!
An impressive foot-long Splittail Bass (Hemanthias peruanus), available soon to the aquarium trade.The Splittail Bass (Hemanthias peruanus) is a dee... Read more.
Tropical cyanobacteria genome sequenced
An international team of researchers led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has sequenced the genome of Lyngbya majuscula, a t... Read more.
Fighting ocean acidification …. with limewater?
The concept boils down to this: dump massive amounts of lime into seawater to counter acidification. Greg Rau of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the Univers... Read more.
Why the time a species spends as planktonic larvae doesn’t factor into geographic extent
A.ocellaris larvae at 2 days. Photo by Javier UrkiagaIntuition suggests the longer a species’ egg or larvae spends in open ocean, the greater... Read more.
Cairns Underwater Film Festival hosts 2011 Photography Contest
Not to be outdone by the Philippine’s Department of Tourism, Cairns (Australia) is attracting underwater photographers to their reefs. The submitted... Read more.
Video of juvenile Genicanthus personatus angelfish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkyTdwjHZiU A short introduction about this species: Genicanthus personatus are described as an Hawaiian endemic (most populous i... Read more.
Philippines promotes reef macro photography as lure for tourism
The Philippine’s exotic and bio-diverse reefs are a macro-photographer’s dreamThe Philippine Department of Tourism is actively inviting ... Read more.