The eponymous flasher wrasses are so named for their dazzling courtship displays, in which males flash iridescent neon colours to attract females and to ward off rival males. This behaviour is best appreciated about an hour before sunset, or as…
Saltwater Fish
Tiger Angelfish Bred by Poma Labs for the First Time
It feels like we are living in a Golden Age of Angelfish breeding as this week, Dr. Matt Wittenrich, Co-Founder & CEO of Poma Labs Inc, announced that his company has bred and raised the Tiger angel, Apolemichthys kingi, for…
Are Resting Copepod eggs the next Aquaculture revolution?
A Norwegian Aquaculture company has brought to market a very interesting product that could be the next revolution in the ornamental fish breeding industry. Until now, prey culture has always been the bottleneck of marine fish aquaculture. But C-Feed has…
Rat-infested islands change behavior in native damselfish
An article published in Nature Ecology and Evolution has found that tropical islands infested with non-native rats have changed the ecology of the reefs around them. No surprise there then, and yet another story of how invasives can wreck native…
Chromis abyssus video shows life in Palua’s mesophotic zone
A video of one of the world’s deepest known species of damselfish has been shared by one of the three people who described it. Chromis abyssus was discovered in 2007 and described in 2008 by ichthyological legends Richard L. Pyle,…
Awesome Fish Spotlight: Freckle Face Tang
If you’re in the market for a show-stopping surgeonfish that won’t cost the earth, look no further than the Freckle Face Tang, Acanthurus maculiceps. Also known as the Spot Face Surgeon or White Freckled Surgeonfish, A.maculiceps is native to the…
Purple X Yellow Tang Hybrid is a Crowning Achievement for Bali Aquarich
We recently paid a long overdue visit to Mr Su who’s Bali Aquarich is a Marine fish Photography heaven. We always get to take pictures of the craziest fish possible whenever we go there, and this time was no exception.…
New Half-Black/Lemonpeel Angelfish Hybrid produced by Bali Aquarich
In our latest visit to Mr Su famous ornamental fish hatchery, we were greeted with many fish of different sizes and slightly different coloration all of them being hybrids of Centropyge flavissima and C. vrolicki. The very strange thing with…
Bali Aquarich produces another first: Golden Angelfish!
Bali Aquarich the now famous Indonesian marine fish breeder, had us excited for a couple of weeks already. Sending quick shots of settling juvenile angelfish of a new kind, and we could recognize the golden angelfish Centropyge aurantia in them,…
Maldivian Koi tang comes with valuable catch information
For every aberrant koi tang we feature here at Reef Builders, we’re bombarded by about six more from around the globe. To the point where we weren’t even going to feature this fish, based just on its looks and high…