The first batch of captive bred ORA Spotted Mandarins is being released and should be soon be available for purchase from your favorite Oceans, Reefs and Aquariums (ORA) merchant. Synchiropus picturatus is one of the jewels of the marine aquarium trade…
Saltwater Fish
Lightning Maroon Clownfish stars in it’s own HD video
[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPMeY4ZTQA[/youtube] The lightning maroon clownfish is an amazing variant of Premnas biaculeatus from Papua New Guinea which was discovered with extremely aberrant lightning stripes. When word spread of this fish, the domestic and global marine aquarium communities were…
Hemianthus vivanus is a deepwater Caribbean anthias with a cockatoo’s crest
It’s really a shame that America is the largest consumer of marine ornamentals and although we spend a lot of energy acquiring the most exotic reef animals from around the world, yet the reef fish of our own backyards go…