A nice large male solid red flame angelfish with flowing blue-edged fins is quite a sight to behold, we’d say it’s possibly one of the most beautiful reef fish, or at least pygmy angelfish. For some of you nothing will…
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Awesome Fish Spotlight: Serranus chionaraia, the snow basslet ushers in some Christmas festivities
While it may be snowing in your country right around this time of the year, the snow basslet for sure didn’t get its name from the same frozen rain that many have come to love. Or hate, especially if you…
Top 10 new fish species of 2014
The last few years have been really hot ones for the discovery and description of new reef fish species and 2014 was no slouch either. Sometimes it seems like new species descriptions are dominated by dwarf gobies of the Eviota and Trimma genera,…
Chromis bermudae is a Bermudan endemic recently separated from C. flavicauda
Chromis flavicauda is a beautiful and large species from Brazil. Although coloured in a very typical and boring blue body yellow tail configuration, C. flavicauda has a different body shape and a brighter more lustrous colour. Their ability to change…
Fisheye Aquaculture’s Pearl Eye Gold Flake Maroon Clownfish
Designer clownfish enthusiasts will have yet another new twist in the Gold Stripe Maroon category with the latest introduction from Fisheye Aquaculture – Pearl Eye Gold Flake Maroon Clownfish. This form was found in their “Super Sexy Goldflake” Maroon Clownfish…
When Should Squabbling Marine Fish Be Separated?
I recently introduced a Kole tang to my tank, and it keeps getting in fights with the resident yellow tang. So far, neither one has been seriously hurt, but I’m worried about where this is heading. Do I need to…
Awesome Fish Spotlight: Serranus luciopercanus, the Walleye Basslet
Today’s Awesome Fish Spotlight features another Curaçao gem from the genus Serranus. We love Serranus, and over the years we’ve covered articles on a wide range of species from this genus. The genus attains highest development in the Atlantic, especially…
Yusei Nagashima is a watercolour artist from Japan with a flair for reef subjects
We don’t often blog about art but there is no denying the presence of wildly talented artists right here in our hobby. Karen Talbot is well known for her meticulous and incredible paintings, while Christ Turnier for his whimsical wood carvings. The…
Lightning X Lightning Maroon Clownfish – Preliminary Results are IN!
We all were holding out hope that, just as the first matings of two Picasso Percula Clownfish yielded a 2nd new designer form of clownfish, so too people anticipated that the mating of two Lightning Maroon Clownfish would hopefully create…
Survival on the reef part 3: Distractions and decoys
Continuing with our mini series on reef fish survival techniques, we stray away from mimicry and take a look at how some fishes use the art of distraction to fool their predators. Not everyone has the ability to conceal their body…