[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnrQMJV7bg8[/youtube] The pair of ORA Spotted Mandarins (Synchiropus picturatus) I received earlier this year has been caught going through the motions, but as of yet, they have not consummated their relationship. Typical teenagers…as you can clearly see in…
Saltwater Fish
Sustainable Aquatics releases new Ocellaris and Percula Clownfish Crosses – Updated
Tennessee-based Sustainable Aquatics has been busy with their clownfish. Recently announced, SA is now producing both the Snowflake variety of A. ocellaris (marketed as the SA Snowflake Clownfish – pictured at right) and the Platinum variant of A. percula (marketed…
Approaching the Event Horizon for captive bred Liopropoma
Reef Builders is elated to bring you this news – the Liopropoma Event Horizon is within sight! 43 days post hatch! Check out those INSANE dorsal extensions, the first one like a string of weather balloons providing for buoyancy presumably! …
The Wrasse Blenny is exactly the kind of oddball fish you’d expect to find at Old Town Aquarium
it is invariable that any time we visit Old Town Aquarium in Chicago, we are bound to not only come across some cool fish, but some rare oddballs which we’ve never seen, and rarely even thought about. On this visit…
Patterns of schooling fish in the 200,000 gallon Phillipine Reef of the Steinhart Aquarium
[youtube width=”670″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZSINQ0N0l0[/youtube] There’s truly no better way to start the week than by transporting yourself to an imaginary place by watching an awesome reef video. Last week we had the Cozumel Dive video on an actual Caribbean reef and…
AquaEl HPP-600 is an interesting inline pump with the potential to fill a unique role
[youtube width=”670″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubMfB9TpeE0&feature=sub[/youtube] The HPP-600 water pump from Polish AquaEl is an unusual inline water pump with the potential to fill some unique roles. At 22 watts, the AquaEl HPP-600 can pump a maximum height of four meters (13 feet)…
A pictorial walkthrough of the Denver Downtown Aquarium
The Denver Downtown Aquarium may be small compared to some larger establishments, but it is still packed with a wide variety of interesting fresh and saltwater creatures. We’ve previously posted about the Denver Aquarium’s terminal phase hardwicki wrasse, the video…
A personal ad from Meiacanthus kamoharai
Hi, I’m the Japanese beauty you saw online, my name is Meiacanthus kamoharai, or Maya for short. You know who you are. A mutual friend said you were drooling over my picture online, saying “I have to have you”. I’m…
Liopropoma africanum is a rare fish for the connoisseurs of exotic reef life
Seeing Liopropoma africanum for the first time at the House of Fins SPLASH event last weekend was a big surprise, and a welcome one at that. It’s only a few months ago that the Africanum basslet started popping up in…
Discordipinna spikefin goby, video of unique, fin-flaring behavior
[youtube width=”670″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6MOj0JLGlc[/youtube] Discordipinna griessengeri, the spikefin goby, is an amazing diminutive reef fish which many people know about, but few have really gotten to know what makes this species (and the genus) so fascinating. Topping the scale at just…