The white longnose butterflyfish that landed at Abyss Aquatics in the UK is at once quite surprise and not a surprise at all. On the one hand the longnose butterflyfish, Forcipiger longirostris, and its black form is one of the…
Blanket Octopus are just one reason to pick up Ellen Prager’s new book
Who knew that there was such a thing as a blanket octopus with a self-defense mechanism unlike any other? Ellen Prager did and she wrote about the unusual blanket octopus and many other highly unusual facts about natural marine life…
World’s largest water pump moves 150,000 gallons per second
The world’s largest water pump is not just a big mag drive with a huge sticker price, it also plans to be a safeguard against rising floodwater in New Orleans. At $500 million for the entire installation, the impeller on…
Cirrhilabrus adornatus gets the Reef-View touch by Dietmar Schauer
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GY90KQK4J4[/youtube] Cirrhilabrus adornatus is one of those wrasses that looks unassuming at the store but when given the right kind of care and lighting it can really shine. As with most reef fish, once you get them home into a…
Spanish Flag Grouper lands at Old Town Aquarium
The Spanish Flag grouper is a fish that was once uber rare but now seems to be trickling into the trade with more regular collection, and a price that ensures it is worth the time of the deepwater collectors who…
Cherry Charm Paly is a large looker from Cherry Corals
The Cherry Charm Paly is a gorgeous and jumbo size palythoa with amazing coloration. Cherrie Corals started teasing this polyp strain yesterday and now their website has gone live with some WYSIWYG frags with two polyps of Cherry Charm Palys…
Luxim to unveil new STA 60 plasma light with twice the power in the same footprint
Hold on to your ionized particles folks because Luxim, the company that brought us LIFI and the light emitting plasma that has actually made it into the real world is about to get a power-up. Next week at LightFair in…
West Australian Corals, get ’em while they’re hot!
West Australian corals including Symphyllia wilsoni, Scolymia australis, fancy chalice corals and a whole suite of fancy zoanthids are the latest crop of hot reef aquarium corals from the land down under. However, recent satellite observation suggest the West Australian…
Cree shatters LED theoretical maximum efficiency of 200 lumens per watt in the lab
Today Cree announced that they have trounced previous luminous efficiency records of Light Emitting Diodes with 231 lumens per watt being produced by a single-die component. The record-setting efficient LED has a color temperature of 4500K, the results were produced…
Personatus angelfish video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkyTdwjHZiU[/youtube] If the masked angelfish, Genicanthus personatus, is a fish that just moves you and the video update from a couple months ago wasn’t enough, this morning you’re in luck. Just yesterday the owner of the tiniest masked angelfish ever…