Recent successes coming out of the Rising Tide initiative as well as my own Liopropoma rearing tanks have inspired me to revisit the idea of collecting eggs and larvae from the 20,000 gallon reef tank at the Long Island Aquarium. Although a variety of fishes can be...
Master photographer Christopher Paparo of the Long Island Aquarium has just posted some never before seen macro images of my Liopropoma larvae on the facebook page for his photography site, fishguyphotos.com. Also, you may want to brace yourself for an eventful week...
I am very sorry to report that we have lost another cherished member of our community this week. Arline Addison, who in Bill’s own words, was the great woman behind all of his successes. When they told me two years ago that Arline had been diagnosed with stage four...
Well, I guess it went for a higher price than a lot of the rarities we've seen in the aquarium trade, but pound-for-pound, I think the candy bass is still more expensive. LINK
It’s been almost two years since Allison Petty first successfully closed the life cycle of Metasepia pfefferi at the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead, NY (http://www.reefsmagazine.com/forum/reefs-magazine/100522-rearing-flamboyant-cuttlefish.html). Her continued...
Yes, you heard right. The waters of New York are good for more than discarded bodies, oil spills, and container ships, but if you think our marine biodiversity ends at bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix), striped bass (Morone saxatilis), and the occasional stray tropical...
Country Critter’s pet shop in Patchogue, NY has landed a specimen of the rare, deepwater basslet Lipogramma evides. This small reef fish from the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean is normally found at depths of 145-365m (480-1200ft)! Collecting fishes at these depths...
An aquarium in Dubai has reported the first known case of parthenogenesis in the zebra shark, Stegastoma fasciatum. The female shark has been in the Burj Al Arab’s aquarium since 2001 when she was a pup. For the last four years, she has been laying eggs that...
It’s been more than two weeks since I posted news of the first settlement of a Liopropoma bass at the Long Island Aquarium. I know at least a few of you are eager for an update, but there really hasn’t been anything new to report…until now. At day 69, post-hatch, the...
As I sit here writing, my wife Ashleigh is in the kitchen opening the first bottle of Bombay Sapphire gin that’s been permitted in our house in more than a year. After having worked on this species off and on (sadly, more off, than on) for more than fifteen years,...