A single specimen of a rare deepwater hogfish has arrived in America for the first time. Named the Black Ear Candy Hogfish, Bodianus tanyokidus comes from the Indo-West Pacific, Comoro Islands, and Mauritius to southern Japan, and can be found…
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Raja in Pajamas is the Hottest Coral in the World Right Now
With the dark-rimmed yellow mouths and green base of a Raja Rampage, and the blue streaks of a Jelly Bean Chalice, the second we saw this coral we knew we had to find out more. Blaine Shivley from Top Shelf…
Lionfish Challenge removes 30,000 Lionfish from Florida state waters
The eighth edition of the Lionfish Challenge concluded this October, shattering previous records and crowning Baye Beauford Lionfish King, 2023. The competition saw 281 registrants embarking on 917 dive trips over a four-month period, which collectively removed 30,494 invasive Lionfish…
AquaDom Investigation Closed: No one Responsible for Giant Aquarium Collapse
Prosecutors in Berlin have closed their investigation into the giant AquaDom cylinder aquarium collapse, concluding that the cause could not be pinpointed and that they had no lead to follow on who might be responsible. According to the Associated Press,…
Is the Hobby Getting Too Expensive? Part II Livestock
As was discussed in Part 1 the cost of getting into the hobby, equipment-wise was surprisingly not as expensive as I had thought. This was the case even when some of the best equipment was being used. Even when inflation…
Charterhouse Aquatics Provides 3D-Printed Product Solutions
British e-commerce retailer Charterhouse Aquatics has begun designing and 3D-printing its own range of reef aquarium products. It already lists over 40 own-branded products in its portfolio from frag racks to media baskets, frozen food defrosters to CO2 scrubbing collars…
Online Coral ID Workshops Are Back For 2023/24
Do you know your Collines from your Coralla? Your Paliform from your Petaloid or Phaceloid? Your Septa from your Septo Costae? Learn all these hard coral descriptive terms and most importantly, how to identify virtually all Indo-Pacific hard corals to…
How To Keep Leptogorgia Gorgonians
Ahhh the wonderful Leptogorgia virgulata, a beautiful non-photosynthetic gorgonian. This wonderful species of gorgonian calls most of the eastern seaboard of the United States home. It can also be found on both coasts of Florida. This species comes in a…
Top 5 Most Unique Corals in the Reef Builders Studio
Go to most places and the corals they will want to show off will be the eye-catching, crowd-pleasing ones like Torches, Chalices, and Tenuis. But the Reef Builders Studio was never just about showing off popular corals, it was about…
