by Admin | Dec 14, 2016 | Corals, Photography
Divers and underwater photographers have a bit of a soft spot for Oxycirrhites typus, the Long Nose Hawkfish. Any fish that has its own hand signal (a gesture with one hand, reaching away from the face to suggest a long nose) has clearly... by Admin | Dec 14, 2016 | Advanced Aquarist
Myloplus lucienae is a new species of "silver dollar" (AKA Myleus, AKA pacu) from Brazilian Amazon. While resembling piranhas (also of the family Serrasalmidae), Myloplus are peaceful but voracious herbivores. by Joe Rowlett | Dec 14, 2016 | Fish
On Monday, I counted down a top ten list of new reef fishes described in the last year, and in this list we’ll be reminiscing over a few more of 2016’s biggest finds. There were so many incredible new discoveries, many of which were made thanks to the tireless efforts... by Afishionado | Dec 13, 2016 | Corals, Equipment, Tanks, Video
For this episode, we had the master of Two Little Fishies, Julian Sprung himself to come out to Afishionado Headquarters to demonstrate when and how to use cyanoacrylate (CorAffix) and underwater epoxy (AquaStik) on your new corals.… by AquaNerd | Dec 13, 2016 | Corals, Eye Candy, Opinion
Do you have a Holy Grail coral? AKA, a nub of something exotic that you have to have? Â Well, I can tell you that I have plenty of those on my wish list. Â Sometimes I actually get a chance to acquire that Holy Grail coral at a price that I am willing to pay. The Darth Maul Porites (po-rite-ees) is one such coral for me. While browsing forums, I came across a lovely ruby colored SPS that was called the Darth Maul Porites. Hobbyists were trying different lighting intensities and spectrums in an effort to get their frags to maintain the jewel tone that it is known for. We see many green and blue corals in the hobby, but a red, pink, yellow or orange by xeniaforever | Dec 13, 2016 | Equipment, Industry
Fans of ESHOPPS and of well-crafted, brilliantly-designed skimmers rejoice: the 15-year-old company has just announced the launch of a mid-level line of its wildly popular X-Series... by Admin | Dec 13, 2016 | Advanced Aquarist
The Atlantic killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus (AKA Mummichog) is a North American fish that not only can survive highly variable salinity, temperature fluctuations from 6 to 35 °C (43 to 95 °F), and nearly anoxic (oxygen-less) water, but can withstand toxic levels 8,000 times more lethal than other fish can survive. by Admin | Dec 12, 2016 | Corals, Photography
Tubastrea micrantha is often called Black Tree Coral by divers, due to its arborescent style of growth, while aquarists mainly refer to it, somewhat oxymoronically, as Black Sun Coral. Thing is though, when I encounter colonies of it in the wild, the coral tends to...
