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Rising ocean temperatures is making some coral populations move to cooler reefs

In addition to coral bleaching events, increases in ocean temperatures are having another affect on reef building corals, with populations of some species migrating away from the equator. A new study found…

Breeding Albino Ocellaris will get you thrown in jail in South Africa

According to a thread on MarineAquariumSA, Marcel Triessl has been thrown in Jail for trying to breed Albino Ocellaris Clownfish. Marcel has been dealing with the authorities on obtaining the permits needed to breed marine organisms for several months now.…

2nd Annual Marine Breeding Initiative Workshop Announced

It’s official – arguably the only event of it’s kind in the country (oh heck, let’s just go big and say the only one in the WORLD), the 2nd Annual Marine Breeder’s Workshop has been announced for Saturday, July 23,…

The Reefstock Allstars have some Thorny Competition in the Muzac Biz

[youtube width=”600″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpMOrX1fzGM[/youtube] We thought reefers were the only geeks to melodically rhapsodize about the wet life. We thought wrong. Nothing like ichtho-molectular-bio-genetic-research parodies of Timberlake and Timbaland to bring aquatic geekdom to a whole new level. While it’s not…

Winners of the Vertex ME video contest announced, congrats to Williamsport Area High School

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdP7Oy_t1cU[/youtube] Vertex Aquaristik recently announced the winners of their Vertex ME contest and we have to say that based on merit alone, we were pretty sure that Williamsport Area High School was going to win. With over 2000…

CAD Lights LED system even comes with a remote control

The CAD LED System is an affordable reef light which not only has a utilitarian design but it also has a remote control for independent adjustment of the two LED color channels. CAD Lights Aquariums is better known for building…

Did Joyce Wilkerson’s Book ‘Clownfishes’ suddenly become a high-value collector’s item?!

One of the most-often recommended books for marine fish breeders, Joyce D. Wilkerson’s book Clownfishes, suddenly seems to be a hot commodity. I often tell people to, “buy this book, because often times if the answers to your questions are…

Mauritius Triggerfish, Rhinecanthus cinereus, is a picasso trigger you’ve probably never heard of

The Mauritius triggerfish, Rhinecanthus cinereus, is one of seven species in the genus of Picasso triggerfish. Known only from the Western Indian Ocean, we’ve actually never seen the Mauritius triggerfish in person and the image above is the only one…

Metis LED from Pacific Sun is packing a serious LED package

The Metis LED is PacificSun’s newest solution for high performance LED reef aquarium lighting. Since PacificSun has been designing and manufacturing original LED lights for the aquarium hobby just about longer than anyone, their Metis is probably the first 4th…