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 glas... 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 ... 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 Richardson... 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 th... 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 F... Read more.
Decision-making in fish with parasites are impaired
A Striped Cleaner Wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) attends an Immaculate Damsel (Mecaenichthys immaculatus). Fly Point, Port Stephens, NSW. Photo by Richard Ling ... Read more.
One of the largest plecos now described
Pseudacanthicus majorL186, now formally (and aptly) named Pseudacanthicus major, has been kept by aquarists for many years now … in very large... Read more.