The first SEASMART coral farm has launched in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and is looking to to grow corals for both sale into the aquarium market and to help restore local reefs. We’re big fans of the SEASMART program, a joint…
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Rethinking The Local Fish Store
In this postmodern, internet-based hobby world, it seems that the venerable local fish store (“LFS”) is under constant attack. E-tailers, hobbyist’ garage based start-ups, group buys, eBay, Craigslist, and even frag swaps are but a few of the challenges facing…
Reef capable LED from Marineland lighting fixtures released
Marineland just released information on their new Reef capable LED lighting fixtures to the masses. We first reported the Reef Capable light back in March and it looks like Marineland is finally ready to get this LED light to production.…
Anyone interested in doing an Archeological Reefscape?
This past weekend we attended the Fragstock coral farmer’s market at the Denver Downtown Aquarium. Along with many amazing corals and some neat, new products, we spied this interesting arrangement of home made reef rock. The maker Rich had arranged…
C-Quest Is Coming Home!
The news spread quickly this morning as C-Quest announced that it will be moving from it’s longstanding location in Puerto Rico to the Addison’s home town of Wheatland, Wyoming, roughly 1 hour north of Cheyenne. C-Quest is arguably the world’s…
Ghost Tang at World Wide Corals is a white-colored yellow tang treasure
We’ve heard of white yellow tangs being spotted in the wild before but this is the first we’ve seen of a completely ghost white yellow tang being captured for the aquarium trade. World Wide Corals just received an all white…
Chlorophyll F, a newly discovered photosynthetic pigment uses infrared light
Chlorophyll F is a photosynthetic pigment which is able to capture light energy in the infrared spectrum. Chlorophyll F has an absorption peak of 706 nanometers, a segment of light which was previously considered to weak to drive photosynthesis. The…
Will the real Springeri damselfish please swim up?
Chrysiptera springeri is an amazing species of damselfish which we’ve long admired. Over the last couple of years we’ve seen at least two color forms of damselfish being offered up as C. springeri: one all blue form with a clear…
Black Sun Coral, Tubastrea micrantha, found growing all over a gulf oil platform
Gulf Oil Platforms may get a little more crowded, and a little less colorful, with the discovery of non-native black sun coral, Tubastrea micrantha, in the Gulf of Mexico. Oddly enough, the only other major colonizer of gulf oil platforms…
Thinking “Negative”- an overlooked aquascaping aspect
If you read my blog posts and articles on aquascaping, you hear me blabber on and on about the virtues of great rockwork, avoiding the uninspired rock wall configurations, the Golden Ratio, etc. Yet for all my talk about rockwork,…