Vivarium is the most amazing Aquatic expo I’ve ever seen. We have nothing like this in the states. Joe Yaiullo, Than Thein and I were brought here by Abyzz (Alexander Grah). Lots of other great speakers too, including Julian Sprung and Hans -Werner Balling. The fresh...
Back in my Long Island days, which ended in late 2017 when I migrated to coastal North Carolina, I wrote a series for Reefs.com titled Long Island Collecting Log. It was a way of documenting and sharing my endeavors into one of my life-long passions: searching for...
I received a very special package this morning. It was one of those deliveries that causes you to stop what you’re doing and reflect on all that’s good in your life. As I eagerly ripped the box open with all the anticipation of a person who can never remember what...
by Finn Gardner, age 12 In my previous post I wrote about my tank and how I got it, but one thing I didn’t really talk about is my gear. So today I will be talking about all of the gear I use for my tank and where I got it. To start out I’m going to talk about the...
by Finn Gardner This is my reef tank, it looks pretty nice, right? Especially for a 12-year-old who just started keeping corals. But the process of getting the tank to this stage took longer than you might think....
Recently my long-time friend, Tamara Marshall asked if she could interview me for her new Podcast, The Tides of Business. Tamara is an accomplished aquarist, aquaculturist, entrepreneur, and founder of Manta Systems. She wanted to talk about my career journey in...
Red coloration and large eyes are typical of deep-water fishes. In the Atlantic, bigeyes of the family Priacanthidae are associated with benthic habitats of the continental shelf, often in water deeper than 100 meters. Although we often find members of this family and...
As I pointed out earlier this week, Biota NC has taken up production of many of the “cleanup crew” species offered at The Biota Group. As I also mentioned, we are the smallest facility (by a long shot) among the Biota network. Our size, therefore, is often the...
Along the southeast coast of North Carolina, overlooking Bogue Sound and the barrier island of Bogue Banks, is the town of Morehead City, the home of Biota’s newest and smallest marine ornamental fish hatchery. It’s become known, unofficially, as Biota NC and it...
In many neighborhoods, there's a special time between Christmas morning and Christmas dinner, when (weather permitting), people leave their houses and go outside to play with their new footballs, frisbees, drones, bicycles.... whatever they've gotten that is not...