Moments ago, Bali Aquarich revealed yet another clownfish species with atypical markings. This time, it’s the Tomato Clownfish, Amphiprion frenatus. With so many unusual clownfish variants showing up in captive breedig populations, how is this fish any different? (more and…
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Bali Aquarich teases first captive bred maze angelfish – updated
While much of the marine aquarium world was recuperating from MACNA 2013, Wen-Ping Su shared the latest news out of Bali Aquarich. The official BING translation of the caption for this photo reads “24 days Maze Angelfish, has already passed…
Bali Aquarich floors us with captive-bred cleaner wrasses
Hobbyist have been chipping away at attempting to successfully breed the cleaner wrasse, Labroides dimidiatus, for years, with many well-documented captive spawns in Germany and the United States, yet nothing more came from those spawns. Then a 53-day success was reported in…
Rare fish alert: The original hybrid Paracentropyge, and BlueHarbor unleashes teaser clips
It has been just less than a month ago when we broadcasted about the newest Paracentropyge hybrid to hit the scenes. Well we hope that’s still fresh in your minds, as BlueHarbor has just uploaded a video of the “original”…
Elos partners with CoralVue as sole North American distributor
Score another victory for CoralVue. Elos has just announced the transfer of North American distribution and customer support for Elos products to CoralVue effective June 1, 2013. The news comes at a time where Elos USA has had a minimal…
AI Hydra LED coming in hot at 95 watts & $399
The AI Hydra LED light is a surprise from left field by AquaIllumination which is going to be available quite soon. It’s been great having AquaIllumination cranking out new product releases including the AI Vega, New Controller, EXT Rail, Powerpucks,…
Philips TLED lamp prototype hits 200lm/W
Philips, the lighting company behind the Luxeon series of LEDs that are used by a number of aquarium fixture makers, recently announced that they have a prototype LED lamp that is hitting an efficiency of 200lm/W. The 1500lm, 3000-4500K, 7.5W…
Successful First Breeding of Hawaiian Endemic Flame Pipefish, Dunckerocampus baldwini
60 day post settlement Baldwini PIpefish – Copyright Jim Welsh, 2013 Proof that hobbyists can really innovate, we’re pleased to share the news from Jim Welsh, a private aquarist, of his successsful breeding and rearing of Dunckerocampus baldwini, the endemic Flame…
Tougher wildlife import restrictions proposed by US…again
Newly proposed federal legislation is taking aim at halting the importation and interstate trade of non-native livestock, including fish and aquatic organisms bred or collected for the aquarium trade. This isn’t the first time legislation like this was proposed and…
Crested Oyster Gobies – 3 years to Commercially Captive-Bred
Image: Crested Oyster Goby – Cryptocentroides gobiodes – quite a looker! (image courtesy Matthew L. Wittenrich) – Male Above, Female Below In a classic example of hobby & scientific collaboration, word broke today that the Crested Oyster Goby, Cryptocentroides gobiodes,…