The Red Sea leopard wrasse has long been considered a subspecies of the common and widespread splendid leopard wrasse, Macropharyngodon bipartitus. A recent analysis by the fish man himself John Randall revealed that these two fishes are different enough to warrant being separate species, and the difference is not as subtle as you’d think. Like Read More

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The Red Sea is one of the most iconic regions for marine life and home to an amazing abundance and diversity of reef fish and corals. While we can enjoy a limited amount of sustainably collected fish from the region, all other marine life is banned from harvesting for ornamental aquariums. No worries because a Read More

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There’s a new species of small polyp stony coral out of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden called Porites fontanesii. The new Porites was just bestowed with the formal description of its unusual colony shape and growth form. Unlike truly branching species such as Porites porites and P. cylindrica or lumpy massive and submassive species like Porites Read More

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Royal Nature, the evaporated sea salt from Israel, is finally hitting the US with a new representative here working on distribution. The selling point for Royal Nature is getting as close to nature as possible. If you look at the key ingredient levels in Royal Nature against natural sea water, you can see how they Read More

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In their “Evening with an Aquarist” series, progressive aquarium shop Seahorse Aquariums in Dublin Ireland brought Steve Halls to the west side of the British Isles to school 70 attendees on some very modern thinking about managing marine aquarium chemistry. Steve Halls and Kevin Davies have been representatives for Red Sea aquarium products long enough Read More

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This story about Tridacna costata was originally published over three years ago. Almost nothing more has come to our attention regarding the little known Tridacna costata from the Red Sea, so here’s a refresher You know, when the first reports surfaced of a new giant clam species, Tridacna costata, being discovered in the Red Sea using molecular Read More

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Reef Spec by Red Sea is a trio of T5 fluorescent lamps for marine and reef aquarium which has figured out that three good color combinations is almost everything to make reef fish and corals look slammin’. Red Sea will soon be releasing the Reef Spec aquarium T5 tubes in three colors, including Reef-Spec BlueWhite with Read More

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Reef Mature Pro Kit is a new packaging of additives from Red Sea which aims to bring your reef tank around in record time. The Bacto-Start, Nitro-Bac, NO3PO4-X and KH Coralline Gro found in the Reef Mature Pro Kit all stimulate different aspects of reef aquarium chemistry and biology. Bacto-Start and Nitro-Bac are concentrated bacterial cultures Read More

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Blastomussa loyae was first described from the Red Sea in 1978 as a separate species from Blastomussa merleti due to the separated walls and ‘irregular voids’ in the corallites of colonies. Blastomussa loyae was first discovered growing in abundance alongside B. merleti but although the species was first accepted as distinct, Stephen Cairns and Charles Veron subsequently classified Read More

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Red Sea, the Israeli based aquarium manufacturer and goods supplier has refreshed their popular Reef Starter Kit. The Reef starter kit has actually been around a while, with the older version hiding in the back of shelves at local fish stores across the world. Red Sea has slowly updated their line of products to include Read More

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