It’s official, the Marine Breeding Initiative’s 2o12 Marine Breeder’s Workshop is scheduled for July 28th. It will be held once again at the wonderfully inviting Cranbrook Science Institute, located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This year’s workshop will follow the same format as 2011; 4 speakers, lunch, and plenty of free time to mingle and interact Read More

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The Resplendent Cherubfish is a naturally impossible hybrid crossing of the mid-Atlantic resplendent angelfish, Centropyge resplendens, and the Caribbean cherub or pygmy angelfish, Centropyge argi. This new captive breeding handywork belongs to none other than the Xyphipops experts at Reef Culture Technologies. Since Both the cherub and resplendent angelfish are members of the Xyphipops subgenus of Centropyge pygmy angelfish, Read More

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The team at the University of Florida Tropical Aquaculture Lab continue to hit home runs, breaking new ground on every frontier.  Their latest success, rearing Ternate Damselfish (Amblyglyphidodon ternatensis) hatched from eggs shipped from the Steinhart Aquarium in San Fancisco, further hit home that collaborative breeding in the form of egg shipments is in fact Read More

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It’s with a bit of sadness that we report today that it looks like the world’s most famous Onyx Percula Clownfish, “Mamma” Onyx, has vanished after at least 17 years in captivity. With no body being found, the official tang police report has been filed under “missing fishes,” but as the days drag on we’re Read More

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The hobbyist marine fish breeding world just took another step forward today.   We may be well on our way towards adding another new species to our captive bred list – we have a report of what appears to be the first recorded captive spawning of the Black Margin Dottyback, Pseudochromis tapeinosoma. Jim Welsh, an Read More

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The first installment of our 2011 Marine Breeder’s Year in Review was probably more breeding news than you thought could have happened in a single year.  Suprisingly invertebrates, new breeding products, and clownfish releases like the one pictured above only tell half the story.  Read on to learn what else happened in our second, and Read More

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Just over a year ago, as I wrapped up the 2010 Marine Breeding review, I found myself wondering if 2011 would build exponentially on the successes of 2010.  2011 was another year in which we all learned from what we shared with each other, and with the growth of marine breeding as a serious hobbyist endeavor, Read More

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They’re what every marine breeder really wanted, but didn’t get, for the holidays.  My Reef Creations’ made-to-order mini kreisels feature all the sex appeal of [insert name of your favorite exotic sports car here].  This is not, we repeat, is not your DIY fishbowl kreisel. Jeremy Maneyapanda of SEA Atlanta tells us “I have bred fish Read More

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Last time we wrote about Todd Gardner’s success being the first to breed and rear a Liopropoma sp. Reef Basslet, the jury was still out on which species he actually had.  Eggs from both L. rubre, the Swissguard Basslet, and L. carmabi, the Candy Basslet, were being collected and worked with.  Well, we have video Read More

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It’s been a long time coming – today Reed Mariculture finally settled on a name for their new product line for Aquarists, Propagaters and Breeders – hence “APBreed”.  This product line is deep, pulling from Reed’s mariculture products to bring offerings to smaller businesses and in-over-their-heads hobbyists who seldom need the bulk quantities that a Read More

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