Fishtank Kings is a new TV series that will air on National Geographic. Liked Tanked before it, the show will highlight both private and public aquarium builds. Living Color the full service fish tank maintenance and installation company that has…
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Deep Sea Challengers scores huge with Liopropoma aragai, Bodianus masudai, Plectranthias sp and Aulacocephalus temminckii
Deep Sea Challengers is a formidable force in the rare fish paradigm. They’ve collected the illustrious Neptune grouper, Lanceolatus fairy wrasses, Symphysanodon typus and just last week, we shared with you a brand new video of O. katayamai. That’s just the…
Wardley Tropical Fish food recalled for Salmonella risk
Wardley, which makes Tropical Flake Fish food is recalling their Advanced Nutrition Perfect Protein. The reason? The food could be may have been potentially contaminated with Salmonella. In total 7,056 1-oz. containers of Wardley® Advanced Nutrition™ Perfect Protein™ Tropical Flake…
Rising Tide at it again – captive bred orbic batfish, Platax orbicularis
The Rising Tide model of experimental breeding continues to prove its value, as the team at University of Florida’s Tropical Aquaculture Lab are taking down captive-bred species firsts like it’s going out of style. Images released yesterday depict post metamorphosis…
Zanclea hydroid is an Acropora and stony coral parasite you’ve probably never heard of
Zanclea is a genus of small hydroids that specializes at living on other marine creatures like corals, anemones, sponges and bryozoans. About five years ago we visited a healthy stony coral reef aquarium Seattle that had some staghorn coral colonies…
Digital Aquatics Lifeguard device promises next generation ‘peace of mind’
We’ve just learned that the Digital Aquatics Lifeguard is a new device that will be launching at the Marine Aquarium Expo in a couple of weeks. Although Digital Aquatics has been keeping quiet and laying low over the last year…
Incredible ‘living pictures’ of a coral reef aquarium using a Lytro light field camera
https://pictures.lytro.com/JakeAdams/pictures/40040 The Lytro light field camera just started shipping to pre-orders last week and we couldn’t wait to take ours for a spin on the wonderful world of reef tanks, corals and fish aquariums. In case you haven’t heard, the Lytro…
Quality Marine makes a rare move to auction limited supply of Resplendent Cherubfish
In a move that seems highly atypical for the wholesale aquarium livestock industry (and a bit exciting), Quality Marine today announced that they will releasing their cache of Frank Baensch’s newest hybrid captive-bred Angelfish, the “Resplendent Cherubfish” , a cross…
Good news from Hawaii over the collection of aquarium fish, or just a delay?
]CORAL Magazine Sr. Editor Ret Talbot reported late last week that the “Proposed Bills on Hawaii Aquarium Fishery [are] Dead for 2012”. This news was widely met with optimism. However, we fear there could be a downside to such news.…
Oculus Aquatics presents Ret Talbot at ReefStock 2012 in Denver Colorado
We are pleased to announce our third speaker for the ReefStock 2012 marine conference in Denver Colorado will be Ret Talbot, presented by Oculus Aquatics. Ret Talbot will be joining our other illustrious speakers, Tony Vargas author of the Coral Reef Aquarium and Colin…