This betta sold for an incredible $1500USD. Photo via Kachen Worachai’s Facebook page.
Breeder Kachen Worachai posted his Thai-colored plakat betta on a private Facebook betta fish auction group.
Eviota flebilis. Photo by T. Suzuki.
The new goby, Eviota bilunula, is only known from Fiji. Specimens were collected at 13.5 m depth. The redescribed Eviota flebilis is only known from Amami-oshima Island, Kerama Islands and Iriomote-jima, in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.
Synchronous spawning of outplanted Acropora tenuis.
Onna Village Fisheries Cooperative, Okinawa, Japan, has outplanted more than 40 scleractinian coral species, under permits issued by Okinawa Prefecture.
The Miro-9 in blue (on display stand)
In 2012, AIRO introduced its first bio-mimetic (biological-mimicking) aquatic robot called the FIRO. The MIRO, short for Marine Intelligence Robot, is its newest version.
Blood parrot cichlids are a captive bred fish with big personalities.
Aquaculture experts from the University of Stirling and the Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology (IRTA) tested 61 juvenile and 59 adults of Senegalese sole by subjecting them to multiple distinct behavioral tests to examine how they would individually cope with stresses and assess their ‘fearfulness-reactivity’ and ‘activity-exploration’ personality traits.
This polished fossil slab used in the study dates to more than 210 million years ago and contains well-preserved symbiotic corals. The fossils were collected in a mountainous region in Antalya, Turkey, and originated in the Tethys Sea, a shallow sunlit body of water that existed when the Earth’s continents were one solid land mass called Pangea.
Porites astreoides with Spirobranchus giganteus (Xmas Tree Worms). Photo by Marie Strader
The findings of the study shouldn’t surprise reefkeepers who have long known that the same species collected from different locations can vary greatly in hardiness.
Fat angry chipmunck? Pokemon? Nope. A puffed dogface puffer.
Just look at this face. It may look comical and adorable, but remember that this is the stress response of dogface pufferfish, Arothron nigropunctatus.
Photograph by Michaela Clemence. Via National Geographic
National Geographic is now conducting a poll for their People’s Choice for Adventurers of the Year award, and Shannon Switzer Swanson is up for nomination this year.
Corals exposed to air during low tide smell bad … but for a good reason.
While the smell of corals is a combination of chemicals (coral reefs are a chemical smorgasbord after all), what you’re predominately smelling is a sulfurous compound called dimethylsulfoniopropionate, or DMS for short.