The UK Government is, as anyone over here knows, in the middle of (and by the time this is published may have concluded) negotiations with the EU regarding a Brexit trade deal. This has been long and complicated and is either the best news or the worst, depending on your point of view. The [...]
With the Hawaii Land Board’s decision last month, the battle over the aquarium fishery in Hawaii continues. The future of what many top scientists regard as one of the most sustainable near shore fisheries in the world is uncertain. Most people in the trade and hobby are at least somewhat [...]
We are proud to announce the official launch of the Coral City Camera, an underwater camera streaming live from our joint urban coral research site with NOAA / University of Miami’s ACCRETE Lab. Visit and bookmark the site here: http://coralcitycamera.com/ We kicked off the launch with a [...]
Those of you that have been following social media have undoubtedly heard the amazingly good news that the Indonesian Coral Ban is being lifted. What does it mean? Why was the ban placed in the first place? How does it affect us? What can we expect? To get a lot of questions answered, I got [...]
Join us Thursday, February 6th as we launch the Coral City Camera, our publicly accessible 360-degree livestream of a thriving, urban coral reef premiering at the Pérez Art Museum Miami from a floating billboard in Biscayne Bay. Admission is free and open to the public as part of PAMM’s First [...]
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 [...]
Tridacna gigas or commonly referred in the trade as Gigas clam has been out of the trade for well over a decade because it has become endangered species that is protected internationally and are CITES appendix 2 and being petitioned to be protected by the Endangered Species Act due to so [...]