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This slingjaw wrasse tattoo is totally rad

We don’t know what’s awesom-er, how nice this tattoo of a sling-jaw wrasse is or that there is someone out there who is rad enough to get this awesome species permanently adorning…

Shedd Aquarium hosting Seahorse Symposium this week

Over 20 million seahorses are taken from the wild each year for medicinal or commercial use, coupled with overfishing and damage to their natural habitat — seahorse populations are in trouble. Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium is looking to address these issues…

Creative use of EcoRay LED illustrates the limitation of using narrow angle lenses

The EcoRay LED light fixture from Underwater World is a light which is outfitted with very narrow angle LED lenses. Unless you’re trying to blanket your aquarium with LED fixtures the EcoRay LED is a tough light to implement in…

Stunning juvenile Centropyge interrupta showcased by BlueHabor

Centropyge interrupta is perhaps the poster child for rare dwarf angels, easily recognized by aquarist world wide. There’s nothing quite like the sparkly blue spots against the intense orange body that all life stages of this dwarf angelfish possess, but its…

Grube’s Gorgonian is a fast-growing and hardy new soft coral from ORA

Grube’s Gorgonian is a species of Pacific Pinnigorgia which is very rare in the hobby but it’s about to get a whole lot more available as frags from ORA. Grube’s Gorgonian (pronounced Grooba’s) has a long history of aquarium culture…

Small Tigerpyge hybrid angelfish imported to Hong Kong by Red Heart King

This super cute Tigerpyge anelfish just surfaced in Hong Kong where it was imported by a marine fish outfit called Red Heart King. The striping on this individual is very broad at this small size but we expect that with…

Sprawling galleries of extremely rare fish and corals springs up on the new Russo’s Reef website

If you’ve been in the hobby a long time and you think you’ve seen it all, you ought to go take a look at the extensive amount of rare fish and coral photos that have been uploaded to the new…

AVAST Marine CS1 cone skimmer kits now available in smokey black, gets recirc option

The AVAST Marine Works CS1 cone skimmer kit was already one nifty, affordable option for a skimmer and now its available in the stealthy “black pearl” cone design as well. We saw this option at Reef Stock in March but…

Kuiter’s leopard wrasse, Macropharyngodon kuiteri, seen looking in the best of health

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mywTVAWkMgA[/youtube] Macropharyngodon kuiteri or Kuiter’s leopard wrasse is a seldom seen labrid which is closely related to the African Macropharyngodon vivienae. Although many of the rare fish we encounter are usually recent imports at wholesale or retail businesses,…