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Coral food recipe causes insane feeding response in Frédeau’s reef tank

This coral feeding video of Frédeau’s reef (aka Gloupe) shows just how impressive coral feeding responses can be when the right ingredients are used. We all know you are suppose to feed…

Vivid Aquarium’s sign-wrapped service car is how you get drivers’ attention

No matter what market you live in, you’ve almost certainly seen some form of “Fish Van” driving around town, going to and from their central LFS hub and to their aquarium maintenance accounts. Sometimes the fish vans are in plain…

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Phantom Tomato Clownfish collected in the Philippines

The Phantom Tomato Clownfish is an unusual specimen of Amphiprion frenatus which was recently collected in teh Philippines by RVS Fishworld. Much like the “Gladiator” ocellaris clownfish, the unusual tomato clownfish features an unusual pattern where its single head bar…

Sunday Morning Light Reading: Cycloseris on a Coldplay Album?

Coldplay is a household name in popular music these days but that wasn’t always the case. So why are we talking about them on a reef aquarium forum? Shortly after their debut EP, Coldplay released another rare EP, called “The…

Greater Caribbean Fishes application puts 1600 fish on your iPhone

The newest smartphone application from the Smithsonian Institute “Greater Caribbean Fishes” is your one stop shop for learning everything about the tropical marine fish living right off of US shores. Like Fishes: East Pacific, Greater Caribbean Fishes includes identification of numerous…

Friday Smorgasbord: Flying sharks, deep water discovery, sexy fish and killer whales attack

Holy flying sharks Batman! In a story that not even the best golfer could make up (you know the guy that made that 50-foot putt to save par in a hurricane) a 2-foot leopard shark dropped from the sky onto…

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Borut Asjan’s Reef features a dramatic aquascape in Slovania

This large reef aquarium belonging to Borut Asjan is located in a bar in Slovania and it has some serious aquascaping apeal. Overbearing, massive, and with sharp lines the aquascape of this ambitious reef display has a very dramatic feel…

Canthigaster criobe is a stunning new toby sharpnose puffer from French Polynesia

Canthigaster criobe is the new species of toby (or dwarf puffer) which has recently been described from the Gambier Archipelago, French Polynesia, in the heart of the South Pacific Ocean. There are well over 30 species of Canthigaster toby pufferfish, most of…

NOAA awards $5.5 million for important watershed education projects for students around the country

NOAA has announced $5.5 in educational grants to allow K-12 students from across the country to participate in important watershed education projects. There are 59 projects awarded grants this year that will allow the education programs of the Bay-Watershed and…