I’ll never forget the night when the first blurry images of a newly discovered Cirrhilabrus emerged. That was back in August 2016, and it only took a moment before I knew what I was looking at. The short pelvic fins, the bulky body, the unpatterned colors… someone had finally stumbled upon one [...]
A newly published study is out, and it offers some sobering news—15% of the fishes which enter the aquarium trade may be collected with the use of cyanide. The importance of this groundbreaking research can’t be emphasized enough, as it marks the first time that the true prevalence of cyanide [...]
There are dozens of anthias species found throughout the Indo-Pacific and nearly all of them are of exceptional beauty, but some clearly shine brighter than the rest. For the Aurora Anthias (Pseudanthias calloura), the combination of its vibrant, sumptuous coloration and the extreme rarity with [...]