Further evidence that insects evolved from crustaceans
With exceptionally keen vision and the fastest strike in the animal kingdom, mantis shrimp are formidable predators of coral reefs around the world. (Image: Roy... Read more.
Lit! Sascha Hoyer’s “Aquascaping Home Studio”
This is Sascha Hoyer and his fiancé Jenny Sandrock’s awe-inspiring fish room aquascaping studio. Sacha is a relative newcomer to the aquascaping scene,... Read more.
News flash: Fish have personalities!
Every guppy has its own distinct personality. Photo by Gerard Lacz/Rex/ShutterstockFrom the University of Exeter:Fish have complex personalities,... Read more.
Noise makes it hard for fish to school
A school of Pterapogon kauderniFrom the University of Bristol: Noise pollution found to be disruptive for schooling fish Human activities, like spreading... Read more.
Just a hermit crab taking his coral for a walk
Diogenes heteropsammicola sp. nov.New hermit crab uses live coral as its home Crab substitutes for marine worm in symbiotic partnership with walking... Read more.
The right amount of Astaxanthin to raise colorful fish
You are (as colorful as) what you eat. Photo by Jenny Hueng.Most reef fish can grow up healthy on monolithic diets consisting of, for example, only... Read more.
Gravity-defying suspended reef aquarium!
For more information about Ralph’s Reef Tank, visit his aquarium’s Facebook page (aquariums this great deserve their own Facebook page!). Subscribe to... Read more.
Baby fish as young as 8 days old can identify other fish by smell
Late-stage embryos of one of the study species, Amphiprion melanopus (cinnamon clownfish). Credit: Jen AthertonFrom the ARC Centre of Excellence for... Read more.
Two new Devario “Giant Danio” species
Devario annnataliaeDevario annnataliae is only recorded from torrents close to the foot of Brahmana Ella waterfall in the Sinharaja World Heritage Site,... Read more.
Hawaii’s Supreme Court suspends aquarium fish collection
Potter’s angelfish (Centropyge potteri) on the left and Kole tang (Ctenochaetus strigosus). Photo by Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPRAfter an... Read more.