This beautiful hermit crab is called Pylopaguropsis keijii (McLaughlin & Haig, 1989). The body is golden color and claw and legs are really bright purple. I got this hermit crab from famous rare fish diver Robert Lower in Hawaii who…
Awesome dancing nano reef is a masterpiece of common reef life
The dancing 25 gallon nano reef has a lot going for it; a vortech pump, LED lighting, great looking common marine animals, moderate use of live rock and an overall look which is greater than the sum of its parts.…
Hydrologic Flowmaster keeps track of your R.O.’s production
Isn’t it a pain to try to keep mental tabs of how much water the Reverse Osmosis has produced? Instead of counting up how many times you’ve filled and emptied a particular vat, you could try something a wee bit…
Invasive Banggai cardinalfish crowd out native fish from Diadema and anemone habitats
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAblRkS5J-0[/youtube] Banggai cardinalfish are so cute, what’s the worst that could happen if we set them loose in a non-native habitat? So far we’ve only been hearing about the details of the introduction, and we’ve debated what it…
Odontanthias katayamai, the yellow spotted anthias is another rarity to hit Blue Harbor first
Odontanthias katayamai is yet another big story from the rare reef fish genus formerly known as Holanthias. A couple weeks ago we learned of a completely new deepwater anthias from Puerto Rico which is believed to belong to Odontanthias, and…
Cree introduces XLamp ML-B LED for distributed and visible lighting applications
Cree is at the forefront of pushing the barriers in LED technology and just announced the availability of the Cree XLamp ML-B LED, a new quarter-watt LED best suited for applications where the light is distributed over a wide area…
Video update on the tiny personatus angelfish
Late last summer a tiny masked angelfish, Genicanthus personatus, was captured in Hawaii by Rufus Kimura. We heavily covered this tiny specimen of the demi-god masked angelfish, first with an on-site video of the tiny masked angelfish, and later on…
Instant Ocean developer, pioneering researcher dies at 93
William E. Kelley Jr., the man behind the creation of Instant Ocean salt and the founding president of the Connecticut’s Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration, passed away earlier this month at the age of 93 and was buried yesterday…
Next generation Marineland MaxiJet “Pro” now shipping with convertible impeller/propeller housings
The MaxiJet has a long history of making reef tanks flow; first as one of the most popular and reliable powerheads, and then as one of the most widely propeller-modified water pumps in the reef hobby. Back in September we…
Yellow Hawkfish, Paracirrhites xanthus, is a rare import from Christmas Island
The yellow hawkfish, Paracirrhites xanthus, is an extremely rare relative of the arc eye hawkfish that was only just described in 1997 by Baensch and Debelius. The yellow hawkfish is not to be confused with Cirrhitichthys aureus, the Golden Hawkfish…
