When it comes to iconic nature photography, National Geographic is immediately in discussion having pioneered many advances in nature photography and more importantly to our audience — underwater photography. Recently National Geographic shared a slideshow dubbed “Milestones in Underwater Photography” that featured…
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Friday fun: smartest goldfish EVER, loud shrimp and ocean rythyms
[vimeo width=”680″ height=”383″]http://vimeo.com/17023529[/vimeo] We have a few fun posts to get your weekend started right. Leading off is one of the best advertisements we’ve seen in a long time. Meet “Mr. Memory” the worlds smartest goldfish in the ads for Drench…
ReefStock this Saturday at the Denver Downtown Aquarium
This Saturday March 12th Reef Builders will be presenting the fourth annual ReefStock conference. ReefStock is a fully rounded conference with lots of captive raised corals for sale, all the latest and greatest products, experienced reef aquarium speakers and an…
Variegated Sea Urchin is ORA’s 85th captive bred marine species
The variegated sea urchin, Lytechinus variegates, is the latest reef aquarium invertebrate to get the captive breeding treatment from Oceans Reefs & Aquariums. When ORA announces new captive bred fare, it’s usually on the order of a new fish species…
D. J. Roller’s Last Reef features stunning 3D macro video
The Last Reef is a new underwater nature film which features the most advanced macro and 3D filming technology around. Until recently, trying to get tight in-your-face images of coral and other underwater 3D video was the limited by the…
New bill threatens to ban commercial reef fish harvest in Hawaii – updated
On the heels of Ret Talbot’s January 2011 CORAL Magazine article on the Hawaiian Marine Aquarium Fish Trade comes a bill in the Hawaii State Legislature to amend Chapter 188 of the Hawaii State Statute. Specifically, revisions to marine life…
2010 was a massive year for marine fish captive breeding
In May of this year, I asked if 2010 would be the year that the marine aquarium hobby shifted to breeding. By September of this year, I felt we already had our answer since this has indeed been one of…
Joe Lichtenbert and Reef Propagations, Inc. retiring
A quiet Midwestern dynasty spanning two decades is coming to a close. After 21 years as a commercial ornamental marine fish hatchery operator, Joe Lichtenbert, proprietor of Reef Propagations, Inc., is hanging up the nets. I first became aware of…
Two Times Five Equals Success! Learn to Love your Siphon Hose
Since our “infant days” in the hobby, we’ve had it drilled into our collective heads to perform regular water changes on our aquariums. It’s one of those “facts of life” that we just can’t avoid. Water changes achieve several valuable…
Huge weekend video roundup with lots of Old School goodness
For some reason this weekend we happened to stumble onto a handful of videos that all have an old school slant to them. The first video of Ganzel’s Reef embeded above definitely has a new school cinematic approach but we…
