Once again the Next Wave event is taking place in Dallas. The speaker lineup is pretty great this year including ReefStock speaking veterans Joe Yaiullo of Atlantis Marine World and Kevin Kohen of LiveAquaria and as well as one of our personal favorite reef fish enthusiasts, Jim Walters of Old Town Aquarium. These are some [...]
What can we say? The “true” Helfrich firefish from the Cook Istlands is a fish that we just can’t get over. For the longest time the Helfrich firefish, Nemateleotris helfrichi was the holy grail of dartfish and over the years their price has steadily declined to where they are now “only” about $100 a piece. [...]
When we think of marine aquaculture and warehouse facilities we think about the typical havens like Southern California’s thriving wholesaler industry a stone’s throw from LAX. So it’s amazing to see Drs. Foster & Smith’s LiveAquaria, one of the top-notch facilities, in the heart of America’s Midwest a five-hour drive north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest [...]
The deluge of Australian LPS corals which have flooded the US aquarium market may have all but overwhelmed the SPS subculture of the reefing community but now that many of us have had our fill of lords, hillaes, moseleyas and scolymias for several lifetimes, Australian divers are now being instructed to collect more and more [...]
It was a pleasure to sit in on Kevin Kohen’s presentation highlighting the chain of custody of marine fish. According to the LiveAquaria director, not all fish are collected equal because even though a blue tang can originate from the Indian Ocean or Indonesia, the difference between the duration of their collection can mean a [...]
