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A peak inside the De Jong Marinelife holding facility

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-VfT9Uc2MI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] De Jong Marinelife is one of the largest marine livestock wholesalers in Europe supplying anything from sharks to public aquaria to frags to Local Fish stores and they recently posted the…

Unique 2,500 gallon aquarium goes on the auction block

If you happen to be in Ohio or are looking to pick up the shipping charges, there is a unique 2,500 gallon bullnose aquarium that is available on eBay. The online auction website has been a great way to pick…

Glabrous fan lobster from New South Wales is a crustacean cool enough to have its own tank

We’ve always kind of regarded slipper lobsters with a modicum of respect – cool because they are hardy and interesting, they can’t pinch you and they are welcome in both fish and reef aquariums since they don’t really mess with…

Magical video by Coral Morphologic shows the staghorn coral tree nursery in exquisite detail

If you were intrigued by our last story on the staghorn coral tree nursery by the Coral restoration Foundation, Coral Morphologic has produced a video of what these aquaculture contraptions look like out in the field. We’re not sure how…

Innovative Marine shows off Nuvo 16 loaded with skkye tablet LED and spin stream returns

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbAh25Rq4y0[/youtube] Now this is interesting, we knew that Innovative Marine was hitting the ground running with their launch of new aquarium products but the Nuvo 16 is packing a little more heat than usual. In addition to the…

Three new Indonesian species of fang blennies described: Meiacanthus abruptus, M. erdmanni and M. cyanopterus

It’s been less than five month since Conservation International’s survey of Bali yielded new coral and fish species and one of those blennies has already been described along with two others. Meiacanthus abruptus, M. erdmanni and M. cyanopterus are all…

Now THAT’s what you call a tigertail coral beauty angelfish

The photograph of this tigertail coral beauty angelfish didn’t come easy as the Centropyge bispinosa from Mauritius was an active fish. Thankfully, this coral beauty was a large and resplendent specimen with an amazing coloration that was well worth the…

Maintaining fish biomass at certain levels can save a reef

Maintaining fish stocking levels and overall biomass around coral reefs can play a vital role in their survival and prevent their eventual collapse. According to a new study overfishing and the loss of the overall reef biomass can generate a…

New LED light from UK’s Arcadia gets spied

[vimeo width=”640″ height=”360″]http://vimeo.com/29905131[/vimeo] We got word of a new nano LED fixture from UK’s Arcadia spied out in the wild over one of the new Eheim Aquastyle Nano tanks. Not much word is out on the fixture but it houses…

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Exhibit opens at Waikiki Aquarium

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN2ypEDoop0[/youtube] We wrote about the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands exhibit at the Waikiki Aquarium earlier this year and it finally opened in August. As the first major display in nearly six years at the aquarium, the NWHI exhibit features fish and…