by ReefBum | Sep 9, 2017 | Reef, Science, Tanks
There are only a few things about the reef keeping hobby I dread and one of them is moving a tank. Oh boy…..what a pain! One of my most memorable tank moves was when my wife and I left the big city lights of New York City for the leafy suburbs of Westchester, New York. At the time I had a 90 gallon reef tank and it sat in the living room of our 4th floor apartment. It was my first reef tank and it was marginal at best, but I started to have some success growing corals so I wanted to bring everything along. I really had to plan things out carefully since we were moving out of the apartment the day before we were due by AquaNerd | Jun 24, 2017 | Aquaculture, Fish, Reef
Clownfish have long been one of the most popular fish in the marine aquarium trade. Due to advances in technology along with a better understanding of the process, the supply of cultured clownfish has grown exponentially in the past 10 years. Several commercial farms grow thousands of these fish for the US market every year. Now, a very rarely seen species (either wild or cultured) is at Quality Marine. I’ve not seen this fish in person before and Quality Marine tells us that they have not been available for over two years; aquacultured or wild caught. The Wideband Clown is found in the waters surrounding Australia ranging from Southern Queensland to Northern New South Wales and Lord Howe Island, hundreds of miles away from the majority of saltwater by AquaNerd | Jun 18, 2017 | Fish, Science
A new genus and species of the percoid family Symphysanodontidae, Cymatognathus aureolateralis are described based on three specimens collected from North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The new species shares characteristics with the confamilial genus Sym-physanodon and the fish has been given the common name, Wavy Jaw Slopefish for it’s wavy lower jaw and well-developed outer tooth patches. The three fish were caught on hook and line and there not much information about how deep these fish were collected but a photograph of this fish was taken at a depth of about 654 feet (200 meters). The wavy lower jaw of Cymatognathus. Credit: Kimura et al. 2017 . The new species is distinguishable from members of Symphysanodon by the following diagnostic characters: posterior tip of coronoid process of dentary abruptly depressed by AquaNerd | Jun 7, 2017 | Fish, Science
To say that life can get pretty weird in the deep ocean is an understatement and the “Faceless Fish” is just another example of how bazaar life can be well below the surface. Found at depths between 13,000 and 16,500 feet deep, the faceless fish is thought to make its home throughout the Arabian Sea, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Japan and Hawaii. This extremely rare catch was hauled up a few days ago and it’s hitting the internet by storm. The fish is a type of cusk eel which resembles an eel but is not actually an eel. Scientifically called Typhlonus nasus this fish has rarely been seen by humans but was first discovered in 1878. <
