Laughing Bird Caye National Park in Southern Belize is home to one of the Caribbean’s more successful reef restoration projects. With over 30,000 coral fragments planted to date, Fragments of Hope is a true ray of hope for the future…
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1.4 Fairy Wrasses: The bathyphilus group
The bathyphilus group, despite being a very small congregation, is by no means any less interesting or provocative compared to its congeners. In 1997 during the Indo-Pacific Fish Conference held in New Caledonia, five unidentified specimens of Cirrhilabrus were brought…
Rare species of Arothron pufferfishes
Dogface pufferfishes are as common a marine fish as you’ll find in the aquarium hobby, but this is by no means true of all the species in this diverse group. The genus Arothron, as currently classified, contains fifteen species, several…
Rainbow Australomussa from the Solomon Islands has almost magic color
I returned from a coral collecting and scouting trip to the Solomon Islands less than a week ago and all this time, I’ve been anxious to see how the corals collected would fare on the extra long, 48 hour flight from…
LiveAquaria carrying more of ORA’s quality livestock
LiveAquaria’s selection of ORA livestock has typically been only offered on the Diver’s Den, but recently LiveAquaria has begun offering a wider selection of ORA products. Another bit of good news is that ORA is fulfilling orders direct, eliminating at…
A Photographic Identification Guide to Stenopus Shrimp
The Coral Banded Shrimp (Stenopus hispidus) is a staple of the aquarium hobby, but there are many more species in its genus that are less familiar to aquarists. Nearly all of the dozen or so species appear in exports from…
Biota Marine’s Cultured clown triggerfish already shipping from Quality Marine
There’s been quite a frenzy of captive bred fish in the marine aquarium world lately, but the new cultured clown triggerfish from Biota Marine in Palau are an exciting new group of fish altogether. Frank Baensch has raised crosshatch triggerfish…
Reef Builders Reboot Phase One
Some of you may have read my recent post about deciding when to reboot. For me, the time is now. My family is anticipating the arrival of another kid in a few months, and so there has been some shuffling of…
Ocean Swipe 360 glass cleaning robot can polish acrylic too
The Ocean Swipe 360 took the reef and aquarium world by surprise when it was revealed that someone had designed and built the mother of all aquarium glass cleaning robots. With a very sophisticated glass cleanbing system that can even…
Tyler Bell’s Zoanthid tree is an exquisite concept of coral display
Corals are such adaptive creatures, they are amenable to being positioned and grown into all kinds of shapes and positions. Tyler Bell’s Zoanthid Tree is an impressive collection of many popular strains of Zoanthus and Palythoa species arranged into an unforgettable bouquet…