Pearlfishes are unique in their own crazy way and have some of the most unusual living habitats. These slender eel like fish belonging to the Carapidae family do not inhabit pristine coral bommies or live in rocky mounds. No. Instead, these…
Saltwater Fish
Bali Aquarich teases first captive bred maze angelfish – updated
While much of the marine aquarium world was recuperating from MACNA 2013, Wen-Ping Su shared the latest news out of Bali Aquarich. The official BING translation of the caption for this photo reads “24 days Maze Angelfish, has already passed…
Cryptocentrus albidorsus is a beautiful and seldom seen shrimp goby
Cryptocentrus gobies are such a marine staple that almost every beginner reefer would own one within their first few months of the hobby. The classic C. cinctus, or yellow watchman goby is a hardy, ubiquitous shrimp goby that is widely available.…
ORA releases new captive-bred Black Neon Dottyback
ORA has another first under its belt with the release of the new ORA Black Neon Dottyback at MACNA in Fort Lauderdale, FL, this week. After successfully producing the neon dottyback (P. aldabraensis) and Springeri dottyback (P. springeri) for more…
Tank bred Clarion Angelfish swims with the ultimate fish collection at LiveAquaria
LiveAquaria released a video recently on their new tank bred clarion angelfish swimming happily and healthily in one of their SPS tanks. Beautiful and groundbreaking as the captive bred clarion angel may be, it vies for attention in this tank…
Hawaiian deepwater rarities get an update: Butterflyfish and Aurora basslet legends
The recent expedition by Rufus Kimura into the Hawiian depths yielded some amazing fish. We’re glad to receive some good updates from BlueHarbor on the health and current status of these fish. The most unnerving part of all this is…
Attention MACNA 2013 attendees: Get ready for a whole lot of Koji
MACNA 2013 will not be the same this year for sure. A whole lot of excitement, with a little touch of japanese flare. Koji Wada from BlueHarbor is playing Santa this year and a few very good children will be…
The real, twisted story behind finding Nemo
Most of us know the unique world of the clownfsih hobbyists, fish geeks and marine biologists. But trying to explain what really would have happened to the lead fish in the animated movie “Finding Nemo” would be very incestuously creepy.…
BlueHarbor gets ready for the ultimate deepwater Hawaiian collection
The contents in this container is worth more words. Koji’s latest attempts at stunning the general public with his amazing capability of obtaining rare fish did not end in futility. Nearly every popular Hawaiian deepwater twilight zone inhabiting reef fish…
Sustainable Aquatic’s new “Frostbite” Designer Ocellaris Clownfish has us Excited about Genetics!
It appears that Sustainable Aquatics has introduced what may be a first of it’s kind clownfish. This new fish, dubbed the Frostbite, is said to be a crossing of two different mutations, the white (presumably Wyoming White or Fancy White)…