Rad Reefs on the Big Island of Hawaii

Aloha Mai Kakou, Exploring coastlines and finding underwater creatures has been a passion of mine since childhood.  Growing up in coastal Florida, I kept what I caught locally in home aquariums before landing my high school job at a burgeoning exotic pet store and...

Do you Feed Your Corals?

Do you feed your corals? Is fish poop enough for our corals? Many corals don’t need to be fed, and there are thousands of aquariums with thriving corals that are ok with just fish poop. Why would we feed our corals?…

Aquacultured Wideband Clownfish (Amphiprion latezonatus)

Clownfish have long been one of the most popular fish in the marine aquarium trade. Due to advances in technology along with a better understanding of the process, the supply of cultured clownfish has grown exponentially in the past 10 years. Several commercial farms grow thousands of these fish for the US market every year.  Now, a very rarely seen species (either wild or cultured) is at Quality Marine.  I’ve not seen this fish in person before and Quality Marine tells us that they have not been available for over two years; aquacultured or wild caught. The Wideband Clown is found in the waters surrounding Australia ranging from Southern Queensland to Northern New South Wales and Lord Howe Island, hundreds of miles away from the majority of saltwater