Little advanced warning. Even after the heavy edit, (took out 10 mins of me drooling over this fish) I couldn’t keep my reef geeking under control. With that said, the Gramma dejongi has been on my list to see for very long time. This fish has been part of trade embargo and even today, [...]
I love aquaculture and the advancement of captive breeding. It means we take less from the wild and and are making a conscious effort to make the hobby much more sustainable; it’s better for the environment and takes ammunition away from those people that are anti hobby. Recently, Biota [...]
I was doing some work on a captive breeding system at Frost Science Museum recently and it dawned on me that we are living in such an exciting time right now. The reefkeeping hobby is improving at a neck breaking pace, and the rate of aquaculture and sustainability of the hobby has gone up [...]
For this video, we went to Fort Lauderdale to meet Kevin Gaines of Biota Aquariums. For those of you who don’t know about Biota Aquariums, they are the sellers of all in one tank packages that includes livestock for the beginner hobbyist. How they are different is they are promoting and [...]
There is no better news in the saltwater fishkeeping hobby than a story of successfully bred and raised ornamental fish. Especially when that fish is a highly desired and difficult to keep species. The team at Biota Aquariums managed to do something extraordinary- they brought with them the [...]