Richard Aspinall
  • Richard Aspinall

    Richard lives in Scotland where he works as a freelance writer and photographer. Richard writes for several magazines on topics as diverse as scuba diving, travel and wildlife.

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Aquarium Fish: In Search of Chrysogaster

Aquarium Fish: In Search of Chrysogaster

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The Amphiprion genus continues to offer some of the most well-loved and sought after species for the marine tank, and is ideally suited for commercial and hobbyist scale captive breeding, The genus contains some real beauties from Mother Nature’s stable as well as some captive bred morphs that divide opinion on occasion.…

Featured Reefs: Red Sea Reefs

Featured Reefs: Red Sea Reefs

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The Red Sea stretches from the gulfs of Aqaba and Suez in the North, past the Sinai and down to its link with the Indian Ocean at Bab-al-Mandab a narrow – and shallow ‘neck’ between the coasts of Aden and Djibouti.…

Aquarium Invertebrates: Hermit Crabs

Aquarium Invertebrates: Hermit Crabs

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Hermit crabs are found in just about all reef tanks, key members of the ‘clean up crew’ and often introduced after a comment on a web forum about how you should ‘chuck in a handful of hermits’ to any new tank with an algae problem.…