An exciting new species to add to your Fakfak Peninsula biotope aquarium, [...]
I started my venture into the aquarium hobby in a sort of run-of-the-mill way, a story I probably share with countless other reefers. I brought home a small freshwater tank, decorated it with some random rocks and a few hardy plants and then added a bunch of inexpensive, schooling fish. With [...]
Brazil's unique jawfish fauna gets explored, with a new species named in remembrance of Thiony Simon, a Brazilian ichthyologist who tragically died during a reef [...]
For land-bound divers like myself, bridges can provide some of the most interesting dive sites, especially if you live in a coastal area that isn’t endowed with natural rock formations. If you can find a bridge with legal parking and water access, that’s close enough to an ocean inlet for [...]
Happy Halloween from this frogfish dressed as a [...]
Before we begin, I just want to put a disclaimer that there is no reef safe medicine that completely eradicates the parasites that are found in the marine aquarium hobby, and having a quarantine system that quarantines anything wet is the only 100% effective way to not introduce any unwanted pests [...]
In this post I want to share images of three fish that I think are particularly striking, two of which I’ve had very limited success with. My first is the Long-snouted Seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus). In aquarium circles, seahorses are not too rare, with an increasing number [...]
It’s easy to forget, when you’re out on the water with nets, buckets and aerators that the laws regulating the take of food and game fish apply to you just as they apply to an angler with a rod and reel. While it’s true that in most states, excluding Florida and Hawaii where marine [...]