It’s hard to imagine this cute looking fish hides a distinctly unpleasant modus operandi, but in truth, fangblennies have a dark side. Fangblennies belong to the Combtooth blenny group and are widespread across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. I think the fish in the main image is Aspidontus [...]
Is It Okay to Quarantine Multiple Marine Fish at Once? For most of my years as a saltwater aquarium hobbyist, I’ve made a point of quarantining all new fish before introducing them to my main system. By and large, my approach to the quarantine process has been observational—that is, watching [...]
I’ve spent hundreds of hours underwater, and swum with a dozen species of shark. Never have I felt threatened by them, but being close to a titan trigger? I’d keep my wits about me. The titan trigger (Ballistoides viridescens) is appropriately named, it is the biggest of the family, [...]
It’s been a number of years since I was fortunate enough to travel to Mauritius, luckily though, I was asked to travel there on assignment at the end of last year, meaning I was able to revisit some great dive sites with some great fish. My favorite has to be Amphiprion chrysogaster, the [...]
I’m a huge fan of the Red Sea’s most common clownfish, Amphiprion bicinctus. It’s a great photography subject, and when hosting in a spectacular anemone, it makes an amazing combination. Not all clownfish are as easy to shoot as A. bicinctus, which makes this ebullient fish a [...]
One of the joys of the Red Sea is pretty simple: the sheer number of fish, and in terms of numbers alone, there are few fishes in greater number than anthias. I’ve started this post with one of my favorite species, the Red Sea Anthias (Pseudanthias taeniatus). These are the striped fish, [...]
Aquacultured angel fish are becoming more and more common these days. New species are being successfully raised all the time and its hard to keep track of them all. The multibar angel (Paracentropyge multifasciata) is a hard fish to keep. They are beautiful, with white and black bars going down [...]
For Design Miami 2019/, we debuted a preview of the ‘Coral City Camera’, a 360° live stream underwater camera located at our collaborative research site with NOAA/ University of Miami’s ACCRETE Lab. The CCC aims to supplement our urban coral research with real-time scientific data and [...]