Goldflake x Griffis Angelfish Hybrid From Pacific Island Aquatics

Pacific Island Aquatics took a break from selling quality marine aquarium fish but now the company is staging a big comeback. First PIA gave us the newest photograph of a flame x potter hybrid in over a decade, and now…

Pacific Island Aquatics unleashes pictures of a beautiful real life Crosshatch X Bluethroat triggerfish hybrid

Pacific Island Aquatics adds another feather to its cap with this beautiful adult hybrid triggerfish. You may remember LiveAquaria‘s stunning specimen earlier this year of the same rare hybrid between the Crosshatch triggerfish and the Blue Throat triggerfish. This hybrid…

Pacific Island Aquatics scores with very unusual Randall’s Anthias lookalike

Pacific Island Aquatics recently brought in this curious looking anthias rumored to have come from Kiribati Islands at 245ft. While the fish bears a striking resemblance to Pseudanthias randalli, it is pretty obvious that it is not. First off the range…

Sustainable Aquatics cultured corals coming soon

With a firm mind share of the captive bred aquarium fish market Sustainable Aquatics is now turning its attention to providing cultured corals. For the past couple of weeks Sustainable Aquatics has been teasing a variety of medium sized frags…

Sustainable Aquatics offers tank-conditioned Moorish Idols

Thanks to the anonymous tipster who texted me and said “SA Moorish Idol” the other day – wow.  Here’s another of our “doomed fish”, the “expert-only, only if you’re a glutton for punishment”, being marketed as something somehow better than the…

Sustainable Aquatics offers tank raised little sand Dragonets

I will always have a special affection for dragonets.  When I saw a tank-raised dragonet on the Sustainable Aquatics availability list, it caught my attention – I had to ask more.  It was not one of the commonly kept species…

Oculus Aquatics presents Ret Talbot at ReefStock 2012 in Denver Colorado

We are pleased to announce our third speaker for the ReefStock 2012 marine conference in Denver Colorado will be Ret Talbot, presented by Oculus Aquatics. Ret Talbot will be joining our other illustrious speakers, Tony Vargas author of the Coral Reef Aquarium and Colin…

Pseudanthias cf ventralis from the Marshall Islands may very well be a separate species

The variations of Pseudanthias ventralis may very well one day be described as separate species from the original Cook Islands type. The most commonly seen of these variants are the ones hailing from the Marshall Islands. Males from this area typically…

We’ve Never Seen This Uber Rare Angelfish Look Like This!

The black angelfish, Chaetodontoplus niger, is a species so mysterious that it’s hard to know where to begin trying to understand it. First described from the Hongsha Islands in the South China Sea in 1965, the only modern records that this…

You’ve Never Seen A Speckled Flame Angelfish Like This Before!

Boy, even after years of writing about all the rare, unusual, hybrid and aberrant reef fish, the natural reef always has something new and special that we’ve never seen before. This speckled flame angelfish from Pacific Island Aquatics is just…