The deep reefs of the West Pacific have revealed yet another brilliantly colored piscine jewel with the description of a new species of groppo, Grammatonotus brianne. This small group of mesophotic basslets is typically found at depths in excess of 100 meters, making...
The Ruby Red Dragonet is a stunning and mysterious fish. It was only in 2013 that this brilliantly colored species was first detected, and since that time it has gone on to become one of the most popular callionymids among aquarists. But even though this fish is now a...
Monsoon Aquatics made waves recently with the discovery of a couple new species of Cirrhilabrus in the Timor Sea, and they’re at it again with the collection of one of the rarer anemonefishes in the aquarium trade, Amphiprion milii, from the waters near Darwin,...
A seldom seen and poorly known fairy wrasse has just made an appearance thanks to Monsoon Aquatics, and, for the first time, it’s been shown that this undescribed species glows red! Though we still have a rather limited understanding for how Cirrhilabrus...
The Tiger Angelfish (Apolemichthys kingi) is one of the ultimate holy grail pomacanthids, seldom collected for the aquarium trade and always selling for preposterous amounts of money. This spectacular species, long thought to be restricted to the subtropical,...
Until the introduction of captive bred specimens a few years ago, the Wideband Anemonefish (Amphiprion latifasciatus) was one of the rarest and priciest species of anemonefish in the aquarium trade, sometimes selling for thousands of dollars. But even less well-known...
The typical amphipod is a grey little beastie that holds little appeal for most aquarists, but there are in fact some truly beautiful species within the group that can be found scurrying about the reefs of the tropical Indo-Pacific. These charismatic crustaceans are...
It’s been a long and arduous journey to get Prognathodes basabei scientifically described. This beautiful fish was first reported in 1994 based on observations from research submersibles in Hawaii. Four years later, Dr. Richard Pyle spotted this fish on a dive at 114...
There are a couple new species of chalice corals to report, described in a new study that examines the poorly known evolutionary history of Echinophyllia and Oxypora, two of the more common genera in the aquarium trade. And the taxonomic fun doesn’t stop there, as...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=321BTWKuAYk There’s only one species of anemonefish recorded from the Red Sea, so, in theory, there should be no great difficulty identifying the fish seen in this video. Is it from the Red Sea? Is it swimming in an anemone? Well then,...