by AquaNerd | May 17, 2017 | Events, Industry, MACNA
The annual Marine Aquarium Conference of North America is only a few short months away and there is an App for the show. Â This year the MACNA app features more social integration tagging, and the latest news. Â Along with it you can easily reference the app for scheduling, speaker bios and a list of exhibitors. Â Additionally the MACNA app includes some live features like Live Tweeting, Raffle Results and a live Map! Â To get the app simply click the proper device link below. <![CDATA[ #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } ]]> For iOS devices click HERE For by AquaNerd | Dec 24, 2016 | Aquaculture, Conservation, Fish
We’ve lost count of the number of captive bred species that Quality Marine has introduced into the hobby this year but regardless of lack of math skills, I know enough to understand that this is great news for the hobby and the sustainability concerns that many have for our industry.  Below is another tank bred press release from Quality Marine that we received earlier today. 2016 has been a year of amazing developments in marine species aquaculture, and now, in the closing moments of the year, Quality Marine has yet another tank bred species in house: Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse (Labroides phthirophagus), fresh from the research team at Oceanic Institute in Hawaii, with support from Rising Tide Conservation. These particular HCW’s came from the second to last collection of by AquaNerd | Jul 29, 2016 | Aquaculture, Conservation, Fish, Industry, Invertebrates, Reef, Science, Sustainability, Tanks
Quality Marine Press Release Announcement available for the public – The First Ever Aquacultured Yasha Gobies Headed to Quality Marine Pursuant to our continued efforts to support captive breeding initiatives, as well as our dedication to remaining a leading source of aquacultured specimens whenever available, Quality Marine is excited to announce we’re adding yet another breakthrough species to our growing list – the Yasha Goby (Stonogoniops yasha). S. yasha is easily one of the most desirable species of goby available to aquarists. Known as the Yasha Goby (or, alternatively, the White Ray Shrimpgoby), this tiny fish is definitely not small in beauty or personality, with its vibrant red and white patterning and its greatly elongated dorsal fin. Like others in its genus, the Yasha Goby associates by AquaNerd | Jul 16, 2016 | Fish, Industry, Reef, Science
In early May 2016, an algae bloom on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee grew to cover 33 square miles.  Nearby farm and residential runoff created conditions that caused the bloom in the lake and have been blamed for impacting water quality downstream to the Atlantic Ocean. The blue-green algae bloom is visible in this image of Lake Okeechobee, acquired on July 2, 2016, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite. The natural-color image combines red light, green light, and coastal aerosol (blue) light (bands 4, 3 and 1). Blue-green algae, also known as cyanobacteria often appears red in most of our aquariums when nutrient levels are too high but no matter the color it’s all cyanobacteria.  Cyanobacteria reproduces rapidly when nutrients like phosphates and nitrogen are abundant in by AquaNerd | May 7, 2016 | Conservation, Fish, Industry, Reef, Science
Vancouver Aquarium marine scientist Laura Borden holds up a piece of kelp found in shallow waters in Howe Sound on Monday. (Rafferty Baker/CBC) Scientists with the Vancouver Aquarium were on the water last week looking closely at how a serious decline in the Sea Star population in the waters in Howe Sound near West Vancouver is impacting the rest of the marine ecosystem. Scientists first started noticing a decline in Sea Star populations in 2013 and the cause for the decline is what is know as, Sea star wasting disease. “It was really striking to see the wasting sea stars. They kind of lose their internal body pressure, they develop lesions, they start to fall apart, drop their arms, so it’s really quite gruesome,&rdquo
