Let’s talk about something unusual, extraordinary even. No, it’s not the newest, greatest, Wi-Fi enabled LED light or a DC-powered, funky shaped skimmer. Instead, it’s frozen food for fish and other inhabitants in your aquarium. Released by the highly respected Larry’s Reef Services [...]
3 day old P. venusta larvae. Photo credit: Karen Brittian. Larval rearing trials began with the spawning of a Paracentropyge venusta pair in the summer of 2013. The first successful larval rearing trial started with a small spawn on November 13, 2013. This was the fifth larval run with this [...]
Source: Cornell University Department of Microbiology The bacterial behemoth, Epulopiscium fishelsoni, is truly unique. E. fishelsoni is commonly regarded as the largest bacterium discovered to date, having the size of roughly 1,000,000 Escherichia coli. Source: Cornell University Department of [...]
Think like a fish. The best way to keep an animal like a fish healthy is to think like one. We are after all very distant relatives of fish (if you believe Darwin) so we should have some sort of understanding of the way they feel. Unfortunately, we don’t. We don’t see the way fish [...]
