All Posts by "Brian Blank"
We shared the news that Lightening Maroon Clownfish are heading to Blue Zoo Aquatics last week and we’ve got a sneak peek at the fish headed to BZA as well as details on how to get your hands on these. Our own Matt Pedersen shared more details on the Lightning Maroon Clownfish blog. Make sure Read More
The Marine Aquarium Society of Colorado is hosting a Reef Ed event with two speakers and plenty of vendors to get your reefing fix this weekend. On Saturday, June 22, join the MASC team welcome both Scott Fellman and our fearless Jake Adams to share their insights into the hobby. As usual for events like Read More
When you rush in this hobby, things go wrong — really wrong. This is evident in the news that one shark is dead and another wounded in a fiasco for the Animal Planet‘s Tanked team at a Coney Island, New York, Applebee’s. The ATM team was hired the team to do a themed installation for Read More
There are some pretty tech savvy people in this hobby, but often our online experience with stores and vendors seems to take us back to the 90s or early-2000s. When we see websites doing a great job like the Vivid Aquarium website refresh, we like to point it out. Not only did Vivid do a Read More
UPDATE: The contest ends on Monday, June 17 at 12 p.m. PDT! Make sure you enter today! It has been a while since we’ve had any contest here on Reef Builders and when Cobalt Aquatics contacted us with some free goodies to share with our readers, we decided to get a little creative on how Read More
Shortly after posting the Belonoperca pylei on video in Japan, we were able to chat with our friend Rich Ross who is also a marine biologist at the California Academy of Sciences. It seems that he is the proud owner of a Belonoperca pylei, also known as the Dr. Seuss Soapfish. So yes you doubters, it is Read More
Welcome to the last Friday of spring and another edition of the Friday Smorgasbord. We kick this week off with this image of monster Trochus snails from British LFS Ocean Corals. The monster snails are actually Trochus niloticus, a species native to the Indo-Pacific region that was once fished for because of its lustrous mother-of-pearl layer. Read More
A tiny but beautiful new blenny species has been discovered off the coast of Curacao in the Caribbean. Named Haptoclinus dropi after the Smithsonian Institution’s Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP) where the new fish was discovered. The proposed common name of the species is the Four-fin blenny, due to the division of the dorsal fin Read More
Reefkeeping pioneer Albert Thiel has a new book out, Nano-Reef Aquariums, documenting how to care for smaller reef aquariums. Because of their size smaller, nano aquariums have become a significant part of the hobby over the last few years. But just because they are smaller, doesn’t mean they are easier to maintain. Thiel’s new book Read More
Call if karma or the circle of life or whatever you will, but Lightning Maroon Clownfish are finally coming back to Blue Zoo Aquatics. We originally reported that offspring from the original specimen that was captured in Papua New Guinea three years ago were heading to BZA in October and we have confirmed it is finally Read More