When we heard that ATI and Nyos had merged, it wasn’t so much the consumer implications as the trade that interested us. As separate companies, ATI and Nyos had separate distributors in some countries, and now that they are one,…
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Pest Nudibranch Tritoniopsis elegans Loves to Eat Soft Corals
My friend Tyler (inland_reef on Instagram) messaged me last week that he had found a strange white nudi hanging out on his Heliopora Blue Ridge Coral. After consulting Sean Ono, he determined it was Tritoniopsis elegans. This nudibranch species was…
Commercial Fisher Fined $214,000 for Marine Aquarium Fishery Breaches
A 51-year-old commercial licence-holder from Darwin has been ordered to pay more than $214,000 for offences related to the collection and recording of marine aquarium fish off the Kimberley coast in 2021. The man pleaded guilty in Broome Magistrates Court…
Aquatic Symbiosis Genome (ASG) Project Fast Tracks Our Understanding of the Holobiont
Spearheaded by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Dr. Micheal Sweet, the Aquatic Symbiosis Genome project aims to sequence as many corals and their symbionts as possible to unlock conserved trends in their associations. In recent years, DNA extraction from corals…
New 3D Printed Frag Tile Optimizes Coral Larval Settlement
Researchers at the California State University, Northridge recently published a paper showcasing their work to optimize coral larval settlement. They tested various microhabitats to determine what structures coral larvae would best settle on. Using Pocillopora acuta as a model, the…
Tank Bred Bandit Angel For Sale At Unique Fins
The gods of saltwater angelfish breeding have once again provided for the lucky reefing community, this time in the form of a captive-bred Bandit Angelfish, Apolemichthys arcuatus. Native to the Hawaiian and Johnston islands in the Eastern Central Pacific, Bandit…
Ciguatoxin the likely Cause of Sawfish Deaths in the Florida Keys
Scientists are blaming toxic algae for spinning behavior and death in Smalltooth Sawfish in the Florida Keys. Fishing guides first reported fish showing erratic behavior in October 2022, fuelling the FWC to take water samples and test pH, salinity, temperature,…
Inverse Coral Beauty is one of the Best Aberrant Angelfish we’ve seen
The Coral Beauty is often a Reefer’s first introduction to marine angelfishes. They are relatively hardy, easy to keep, cheap, and widely available, but this can also work against them when more seasoned reefers prefer something, well, a bit rarer.…
TRITON’s New X-PAND and N-FUSE Improve Coral Feeding Efficiency
TRITON has announced the launch of two innovative new products: X-PAND and N-FUSE. Inspired by natural processes observed and researched on the Great Barrier Reef in Cairns, Australia, these innovative solutions are aimed at improving the efficiency of coral feeding…
Aquarium Store’s Moray Eel Helps Describe a New Species
Gymnothorax arabicus is a new species of Moray eel from the northwestern Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Socotra Archipelago, and the Arabian Gulf. The new species was formerly confused with Gymnothorax pseudoherrei, but is distinguished from it by having slightly more…