Forecasting the fate of corals
An Australian Acropora millepora. Photo by Michelle JonkerWith a recent alarming report that as much as half of the corals on Australia’s Great... Read more.
Orphek launches powerful strip LEDÂ lights
The Orphek OR Bar LED lightThe OR Bar LED Light’s build quality is impressive, featuring a grey extruded aluminum housing with a tempered glass... Read more.
A new freshwater goby that gives any reef fish a run for its money
Rhinogobius maxillivirgatus sp. nov. Looks like a tiny sleeper goby, doesn’t it?This new goby species inhabits a shallow, slow-flowing brook of... Read more.
Perhaps it’s time to hold off buying Aussie fish
Clown fish at Lizard Island during the 2016 coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef. Credit: ARC CoE for Coral Reef Studies/ Laura RichardsonFrom... Read more.
One of the world’s greatest reef tanks is aging like fine wine
2000 liter (528 gallon), 300X80X80cm (120x30x30″) (And here is how the aquarium looked when we first blogged about it in 2014)... Read more.
The Rariphotic: Smithsonian Researchers Name New Ocean Zone
Baldwinella vivanos, one of STRI staff scientist D. Ross Robertson’s favorite new fish species discovered in the rariphotic, named for Carole Baldwin. Credit:... Read more.
Some clownfish lack personalities
Amphiprion latezonatus, Norfolk Island, Tasman sea, AustraliaAustralian researchers conducted an in situ (natural setting) experiment to evaluate the... Read more.
Color-changing reef fishes “see” with their skin
This koi-like hogfish can change its skin colors based on what its skin “sees.”How the Color-Changing Hogfish ‘Sees’ With Its Skin Fish’s... Read more.