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USDA-APHIS: “Do you have a permit for those snails?”
In 2006 an act was passed that basically made you get a permit (PPQ 526)Â if you wanted to import snails into the country or across state lines. Recently, it has been…
World Reef Conference gets moved to October 2010
The world reef conference which was supposed to be held later this year (October 3-4) in Chicago has been rescheduled to 2010. The World Reef Conference will be co-located with the H.H. Backer Associates’ Pet Industry Trade Show at the…
Soft Corals: Still Sexy After All These Years
Being a traveling fish geek/speaker, I probably get to see as many aquariums each month as some hobbyists do all year. In almost every city that I visit, I’m taken to amazing aquariums- some are huge, some are medium sized,…
Sea Dwelling Creatures shows off stigmata blenny and personifer angelfish
Here’s some gratuitous eye candy for the weekend. Above we have the elusive stigmata blenny, Cirripectes stigmaticus, a rarity which is infrequently exported out of Vanuatu. Below, we have a profile pic of a super studly male ‘personifer’ angelfish, Chaetodontoplus…
Salinity Salt from Seachem seen at IMAC West
Did anyone else notice that Seachem was touting their new Salinity salt at IMAC West? We are still waiting on availability and MSRP pricing info. But it looks like Seachem is seriously interested in growing their aquavitro line beyond just…
LiveAquaria’s Acropora and SPS coral display tank
The deluge of Australian LPS corals which have flooded the US aquarium market may have all but overwhelmed the SPS subculture of the reefing community but now that many of us have had our fill of lords, hillaes, moseleyas and…
Wyoming white clownfish from C-quest are an ocellaris
Wyoming White clownfish from C-quest may look a whole lot like the platinum clownfish from ORA but the Wyoming Whites are ocellaris and the Platinums are percula. Although individuals of both strains will likely develop darkened fins with age, comparing…
Doctors may soon drug us up with capnellene from Kenya tree coral
Capnellene isthe name for a new smack hitting the streets (of medical trials) with the potential to be the next “Special K”. We’ve all probably heard that the animals living in coral reefs are the new frontier in biochemical research.…
Deltec TC 2560 and TC 3070 skimmer spotted in the wild
These are some of the best shots we’ve come across with Deltec’s new TC (external) skimmer lines. While we wait patiently for final pricing and availability-dates for the United States we will have to look at these photos in awe…
Roa excelsa status: one is still swimming
As we reported a while back, one of the best shops in Japan, Blue Harbor, obtained two Roa excelsa from Hawaii three weeks ago. Unfortunately, one of the butterflyfish was already dead in a plastic bag when they arrived at…
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…
Breaking New Ground
Vibrant Corals and Fish Ushers in the First Legal CITES-Compliant Malaysian Coral Imports to the…
Tunze Launches English YouTube Channel
Known for its bulletproof pumps and German engineering, Tunze has also been big on YouTube…
