If you’re a saltwater aquarist, you may have never heard of black diamond stingrays, an eye-catching variety of the Leopoldi stingray, Potamotrygon leopoldi. Although black diamond stingrays are a freshwater fish, that doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate them. Upon first…
Sex on the beach was invented by fish
Every spring along California’s beaches tiny fish walk up the beach to spawn. This is the annual march of the beach-spawning grunion, also know as Leuresthes tenuis, and as their spawning habitat declines they need a little help in order…
Reef Octopus Water JET a novel way to produce subsurface laminar water flow
Reef Octopus appears to be in development of a novel and mysterious water moving device. The Reef Octopus Water JET was spied at LSS Laboratory and it appears to move a blade of water through a long, narrow vent. As…
Happy People Eater is the neatest new Zoanthid we’ve seen in a while
The Happy People Eater zoanthid from Happy Corals Inc. is a new and lovely strain of People Eater zoanthids which deserves a little air time. People-eater zoanthids of the Protopalythoa genus have always been among the most populars polyps in…
Kessil LED spotlight is lookin mighty fine over a 22 gallon nano reef
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UtLxYorUts[/youtube] Kessil LED is a new company to the aquarium world which will soon be offering their Kessil A150W LED spotlight in white, blueish and blue colors. While the A150w LED spotlight is not yet widely available, that…
First video of a live Spanish Flag grouper from Absolutely Fish
The Spanish Flag grouper, Gonioplectrus hispanus, is one of the rarest and most colorful groupers in the sea and second only to the Neptune Grouper, Cephalopholis igarashiensis. Due to their deepwater habitat, it’s very rare that spanish flag groupers are…
Eco Runner 6000 from AquaMedic is a high efficiency high flow water pump
The Eco Runner 6000 is a new water pump from AquaMedic which is very efficient at very high flow rates. The Eco Runner pumps use an electronically controlled synchronous motor which promises to deliver very high flow while sipping on…
Oceanic aquarium products will live on, just not the big “Oceanic Aquariums”
Yesterday we posted about Central Pet nixing the Oceanic brand but it turns out that they are really only streamlining the Oceanic product line. Oceanic and Aqueon are two brands owned by Central Garden & Pet which both produced a…
Chrysiptera traceyi coming soon from northern Marshall Islands
Chrysiptera traceyi is not a well-known damselfish in the aquarium hobby, but new collections in the northern Marshall Islands have yielded some U.S. bound Tracey’s demopiselles. The Chrysiptera genus already includes many fancy damselfish species including Chrysiptera arnazae, Chrysiptera niger…
