vortech-pump-controllers-1 A trip down memory lane of Ecotech Marine VorTech pump controllers As Ecotech Marine celebrates ten years of business in the reef aquarium scene, I am reminded of how I came to know the once scrappy three young founders Tim, Pat, Justin and first employee Mark. The company cut its teeth on reef tank product engineering with a magnetically stirred kalk stirrer with a built in
DSC_5775 Sicce’s booth at Zoomark 2013 featured lots of goodies for the future
Hands on with Ocean Nutrition Sep-Art Artemia System

DaVinci clownfish are a curvy-barred form of the Snowflake clownfish strain

The DaVinci clownfish is a newly announced strain of Amphiprion ocellaris from Sea & Reef Aquaculture. Sometimes Sea & Reef is dropping names for clownfish strains that have been produced for years, even if their operation “refined” them, but the DaVinci clownish is something unique, even if it isn’t unknown. We’ve never been particularly fond of the Picasso Snowflake Read More

Phantom Clownfish from Sea & Reef

The Phantom Clownfish is a new strain of Amphiprion ocellaris from Sea & Reef Aquaculture, with a unique pattern of dark black and bright white. The Phantom Clownfish is the offspring of Premium Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish, Black Ice Clownfish and super black Darwin Ocellaris Clownfish creating a gorgeous balance of obsidian black and snow white markings. It’s really Read More

New albino clownfish appear in a clutch of black ocellaris

The albino clownfish which were discovered in a clutch of black ocellaris clownfish may not be as light and ghostly as a typical pink and white albino fish, but those red eyes are definitely not standard issue on a clownfish. The unusual albino-like clownfish were discovered by Tom Lamb of Cultured Critters in a batch Read More

Sustainable Aquatics’ Color-Changing Ocellaris Clownfish is a pretty wild mutation

Tennessee-based Sustainable Aquatics is releasing a new variety of Ocellaris Clownfish this week that they are calling the Color-Changing Ocellaris.  These fish are the offspring from a single pair of normal Amphiprion ocellaris.  Some of the offspring randomly undergo a rapid transformation (less than 2 months usually) from the normal orange coloration to a black Read More

Hybrid clownfish strikes again, this time it looks like a tomato x ocellaris

It’s not only special designer morph clownfish and insane man made hybrid clownfish that show the most unusual appearance in the aquarium trade, nature always has some interesting ‘crazy’ clownfish too too! Here I came up with a photograph of a clownfish that supposed to be hybrid between two species: Amphiprion ocellaris x A. frenatus. Read More

Unusal wild caught Ocellaris clown is spotted from the Philipines

Two wild Amphiprion ocellaris from the Philippines were recently collected with a ‘natural’ mis-barred Picasso pattern. People who have seen man made clownfish such as the Picasso, Snowflake, or the Platinum varieties may easily overlook unusual clownfish with a small aberrant stripe pattern. But these wild caught clownfish with natural aberrations are something special, especially Read More

Sustainable Aquatics releases new Ocellaris and Percula Clownfish Crosses – Updated

Tennessee-based Sustainable Aquatics has been busy with their clownfish.  Recently announced, SA is now producing both the Snowflake variety of A. ocellaris (marketed as the SA Snowflake Clownfish – pictured at right) and the Platinum variant of A. percula (marketed as SA Platinum Clownfish) as well as some unique new crosses of their own like Read More

Black Ice Semi Snowflake Clownfish is ORA’s freak of the week

Lookout Dominoes and Black Photons because there’s a new clownfish cross in town and it’s called the Black Ice Semi Snowflake. Apparently ORA tried to rub a black ocellaris clownfish together with a snowflake clownfish, hoping to get a black snowflake clownfish instead they ended up with this strain that has a name twice as Read More

Domino & Midnight clownfish strains, first images from ORA

The domino and midnight clownfish from ORA are some of this season’s hottest designer marine aquarium reef fish. If you’ve been looking for that new look which will spruce up your reef without making it look fat, you know that black is the it color all year long, darling. If you’re feeling mysterious you could Read More