Neozoanthus is a very little known group of zoanthids in the aquarium hobby but today we learned a little more about two new species: Neozoanthus uchina and N. caleyi. This funky genus of zoanthids was thought to be rare, it’s…
ReefStock 2013 will be March 2 & 3 at Red & Jerry’s Event Center
We are pleased to announce that the next ReefStock is scheduled for the weekend of March 2nd & 3rd 2013. For the first time in four years ReefStock is moving location from the Downtown Aquarium to a new, much larger…
Frogfish carry their spawn in the weirdest place, on their sides
If you didn’t already think that marine life had the weirdest strategies for ecological survival already, this picture of a lady frogfish carrying her eggs ought to reinforce that notion. We’ve long known that some frogfish of the family Antennariidae…
New pseudocoris wrasse captured and pictured alive for the first time
The Pseudocoris genus contains some of the most beautiful wrasses but this little known group goes all but eclipsed by the Paracheilinus flasher and Cirrhilabrus fairy wrasses. However, with aquarists increasingly broadening their scope of rare and unusual reef wrasses, the Pseudocoris…
Porites fontanesii is a new coral species from the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden
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…
Hybrid cleaner goby (Elacatinus oceanops x E. figaro) available again from ORA
The hybrid cleaner goby is a one of a kind aquarium fish which doesn’t occur in nature (as far as we know) Resulting from the cross between a male blue neon cleaner goby Elacatinus oceanops and a female Brazilian endemic Yellowlline goby, Elacatinus…
Breaking: NOAA announces the proposal to list 66 stony coral species as endangered or threatened
Just hours ago NOAA and the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) made public their intention to move forward with the proposal to list 66 species of stony corals under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). You may recall that three years…
Blackbar drum Pareques iwamotoi is an unknown but stunning Caribbean beauty
As big of fans as we are of Caribbean drum fish, we’ve only recently learned of the gorgeous black bar drum, Pareques iwamotoi. Hailing from the coastal waters of the United States Mexico and Central America the black bar drum is…
Purple face Helfrich’s firefish resurface from the Cook Islands
Helfrich’s firefish, Nemateleotris helfrichi, were once so rare in the aquairum hobby that you basically never saw them at the fish store. How times have changed now that the dainty little Helfrich’s is collected in massive numbers from the Marshall Islands…
Red Dragon Acro: large wild Acropora carduus colonies photographed in Bali
The reef aquarium hobby has never enjoyed so much diversity and abundance of maricultured stony corals but with so many of these species being highly sought after, it seems like all we know of many of these species is how…