Obscure Reef Creatures – Sandburrowers (Creediidae)
Tropical sand flats are a great place to find strange species of fish not normally encountered in aquarium exports. Fishes from this ecological niche are often ... Read more.
First Video of the Pearly Signalfish
Signalfishes (Pteropsaron spp.) are a poorly known group of small, benthic fishes found in deep sandy habitats adjacent to coral reefs. While they have yet to b... Read more.
Chromerida – The Malaria-like Organisms Living In Your Corals
Most corals from shallow tropical reefs rely heavily upon an intracellular alga, Symbiodinium, to meet their nutritional demands. This hugely important symbiosi... Read more.
A New Classification For Stony Corals
In the last decade, genetic data has forced us to dramatically rethink our assumptions on the evolution of stony corals (Order Scleractinia) and how best to cla... Read more.
Newly Described Pufferfish Arothron multilineatus Is Likely Just A Hybrid
It’s not every day that a new species of large pufferfish is described from Indo-Pacific coral reefs, but such is the case with the recent description of Arot... Read more.
The Sand-diving Lizardfish – a Lovely Little Mesophotic Oddball
The deep, sandy plains that surround coral reefs are often full of a colorful and charismatic fish fauna ideally suited for marine aquaria, but, seeing as th... Read more.
A Review of Signalfishes for the Home Aquarium
There are a great many fishes found in shallow tropical waters that remain unavailable to aquarists, but few are as beautiful and recommendable as the signalfis... Read more.
The Rare Azooxanthellate Sun Corals Cladopsammia & Eguchipsammia
The sun corals of the Family Dendrophylliidae are the single most diverse and popular group of non-photosynthetic stony coral available to aquarists, but, unfor... Read more.
A Disingenuous Clarkii X Tomato Hybrid From The Phillipines
Update: The original version of this article misidentified this specimen as the first record of the Orangefin Anemonefish (Amphiprion chrysopterus) to be found ... Read more.
An Identification Guide to Corallimorphs in the Reef Aquarium
The morphological differences that serve to separate anemones, corals and corallimorphs (i.e. “mushrooms”) are not always obvious, and perhaps nowhere do th... Read more.