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Black Snowflake clownfish coming soon from ORA
The Black Snowflake Clownfish is a new strain of ocellaris clownfish which ORA was originally aiming to produce when they came up with the black ice semi snowflake clownfish. The Black Ice…
Papercuts and Stray Voltage in the marine aquarium
A few days ago, I gave myself a small papercut on one of my fingers. I don’t think there are many positive attributes with a paper cut. But yesterday, that same paper cut clued me into some stray voltage in…
Waterproof gadgets let you jam out around your tank
Two of our favorite things include reef aquariums and music, and a couple of cool new gadgets will let us combine the two without any worry about water damage to our precious music-listening devices. First on the table is the…
Unique and weird jawfish-mimic octopus interaction videoed in Lembeh Straits
[vimeo width=”680″ height=”420″]http://vimeo.com/23317612[/vimeo] The video by Godehard Korp is certainly one of the strangest and most unique interactions between marine animals we have ever seen. The Mimic Octopus shown crawling on the muck reefs of Lembeh-Straits has a truly unique…
The Mysterious Albino Dottyback, Pseudochromis sankeyi “Albino”
Dr. Matthew L. Wittenrich discussed a very interesting fish at the recent MBI Marine Breeder’s Workshop – an Albino form of Pseudochromis sankeyi, produced by Dutch marine fish breeder Robert Brons of Brons Mariculture. While Wittenrich stated that this variation…
Shore Fishes of Easter Island book will taunt us with a bunch of fish we can’t have
Shore Fishes of Easter Island is a new guidebook of marine fish written by John Randall and Alfredo Cea and published by University of Hawaii Press. When most people think of Easter Island they invariably think of Moai, the monolithic…
Our own Jake Adams speaking in Las Vegas this weekend
For all of you in the Las Vegas region you are in for a special treat as our very own Jake Adams is heading to Sin City to speak to the Las Vegas Valley Reefers this weekend. Jake will be…
Rare orange Fungia plate coral shows up at Reefkoi
We really cringe when we see nearly all orange plate corals labeled as ‘orange Fungia’ corals since the typical, standard-issue orange disc corals are by and large all orange Cycloseris corals. However, we have seen one extra large orange Fungia…
Coralife set to release new Evolve LED based off of recent trademark filing
Coralife looks like it might be getting into the LED lighting game. We are basing that assumption off of a recently filed trademark for the term “Evolve” that covers aquarium lighting and other goods and services the trademark has…
New Era LPS Coral Pellet gets a soft release for initial reefer’s testing
The LPS Coral Pellet from New Era Aquaculture is a new coral food for target feeding of large polyp stony corals. The New Era LPS Coral Pellet will cost about the same as the marine pellet, about $15 for a…
Video: How to Set Up the Red Sea Complete Reef Care Program
When Red Sea changed its popular dosing system from seven parts to a controlled ratio…
A whopping 62 species reported as new from the Coral Sea Marine Park
Reef Builders Alumni and master ichthyologist, Yi Kai, has teamed up with a star studded…
BYOGuides Announces New Workshops
Russel Kelly has created an iconic set of Be Your Own (BYO) Guides which serve…
Tunze Launches English YouTube Channel
Known for its bulletproof pumps and German engineering, Tunze has also been big on YouTube…
