Continuing with our Aquaculture and captive bred success stories, I want to share with you a major accomplishment in the world of Aquaculture that happened a few years back. The success of captive breeding the yellow tang, Zebrasoma flavescens. In 2015, The Oceanic Institute [...]
I was doing some work on a captive breeding system at Frost Science Museum recently and it dawned on me that we are living in such an exciting time right now. The reefkeeping hobby is improving at a neck breaking pace, and the rate of aquaculture and sustainability of the hobby has gone up [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, Sea & Reef has dozens of designer clownfish options and they have just added two new variations. The new clownfish are called Mocha Vinci Extreme Clownfish and the Midnight Lightning Ocellaris. MochaVinci Extreme Clownfish Sea & Reef created the MochaVinci [...]
It is often suggested that aquarists offer tangs the occasional piece of meaty food, despite the fact that they are commonly considered to be herbivorous. I always used to wonder at this advice, thinking to myself that I had seen countless numbers of tangs in the wild, yet they were always, [...]
We all know that the wrasses, or Labridae family, are some of the most widespread and diverse of fishes. I’ve photographed them in just about every environment I’ve ever dived in and I always find them fascinating to watch; they’re always on the move, be it searching for [...]
When I got our aquacultured (captive bred) yellow tangs from Segrest farms I was in a constant state of awe that we got 3 of the first ever bred. I would go into our store and stare at them and think about the researchers that worked on this project for years and how they must have felt when they [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve seen Oxymonacanthus longirostris in the wild, but the first thing that struck me was just how hard they are to spot, especially for a fish that’s bright orange and turquoise. It is all down to camouflage of course; if you’ve never seen the harlequin [...]
A piece of research published in the journal Marine Biology asked just that question. A student, Jacob Eurich from UC Santa Barbara, was studying damsels in the Coral Triangle region, Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea to be exact, when he made some interesting [...]