by AquaNerd | May 15, 2017 | Events, Opinion, Reef
WWC – please send this to me! The guys from Worldwide Corals have done it again with the best Reefapalooza Orlando show I have attended. In it’s 4th year in Orlando, this was, in my humble opinion, the best run show we have ever been to and I’ve had the pleasure of attending all four Orlando shows as a vendor. When we arrived, the Reefapalooza crew greeted us a the back entrance and within about 20 minutes they had the contents of our truck and trailer unloaded and delivered to our 20′ x 10′ booth. Our thanks go out to the RAP staff that helped us get our gear into the convention center and bring water to our booth for our coral and Tahitian Maxima clam display. Well by Afishionado | May 15, 2017 | Events, Reef, Science
Reef A Palooza Orlando 2017 just finished few days ago and for those of you guys who missed the show, here is some footage showing what you missed! Tried to show the scale of the show from the aerial view. Enjoy! by Tidal Gardens | May 14, 2017 | Reef, Tanks, Video
My Top 5 Reef Aquarium Mistakes. Learn from them! Video: Camera information: Canon C100 Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS macro Canon EF MP-E 65mm f/2.8 macro Canon EF-S 10-18mm f/4-4.5 STM IS Sigma Art 18-35mm f/1.8 Sony Underwater Action Cam Copyright Information: This video was shot and edited by Tidal Gardens. Tidal Gardens owns all intellectual property rights to this content. by Admin | May 10, 2017 | Fish, Reef, Science
Good morning friends, this is what you call an OMG fish!! This is another “possible” New Species of Batfish Ogcocephalus sp. found 2.5 miles off the coast of St. Eustatia with the use of a mini-submersible on loan from Substation Curacao and found by scientists from the Smithsonian Institution. In Statia we were anchored around a quarter mile off shore in about 35-40 feet of water with nothing but sand and sea-grass below filled with sting-rays and giant flying gurnards. Unlike Curacao where the reef drops off immediately St by ReefBum | Apr 14, 2017 | Reef, Science, Video
How I Hit The Live Rock Mother Lode! I was down in Florida on vacation for a few days and I had an opportunity to visit a LFS in Orlando, Florida and cherry pick some Haitian live rock for my reef tank reboot. It was nothing short of the mother lode of live rock! Check out what happened! [embedded content] If you are looking for additional insights and information, please explore my many other reef tank and SPS related articles. And you can see all of my reef tank videos online now as well as my Live HD Webcam. Happy reef keeping! reefbum Related Posts by AquaNerd | Apr 13, 2017 | Fish, Reef, Science
This week our featured fish spotlight is A. lennardi. This extremely rare and beautiful wrasse is seldom imported into the United State but if you are lucky enough to find one of these fish and it’s in your budget then this is a wrasse you might want to consider for your reef aquarium. This week in fact, Quality Marine received in some of these fish for the first time in several years. A. lennardi, also known as Lennard’s wrasse, has neon blue and yellow horizontal lines and it ranges from the Eastern Indian Ocean to Northwestern Australia but it is seldom available in the US aquarium trade. It’s not that the fish is so rare in the wild. The rarity has more to do with where the
