How to keep your Reef Tank Cool in Summer Heatwaves and Hot Weather

Summertime, wildfires, and the return of El Nino mean it’s time to think not about how we heat our reef aquariums, but how we keep them cool. We need to keep our tanks at a steady 25C/77F with few exceptions,…

Armitagei hybrid angelfish arrives at Reef Aquatics

A hybrid between a Flagfin and a Cream Angelfish has arrived at a UK marine store. The Apolemichthys trimaculatus/xanthurus cross was once thought to be its own distinct species, Apolemichthys armitagei, but experts have since relegated it from separate species…

How to reach your goals as a Reef Aquarist

This past week, one of my favorite high school teachers passed away. Let me be more specific, he was not one of my favorite teachers while I was actually in high school, as he rode me like a rented mule,…

Bali Aquarich successfully raises the flagfin angelfish

The flagfin angelfish, Apolemichthys trimaculatus, has been successfully bred and reared in captivity by Bali Aquarich. After years of stagnation in the captive breeding space of marine angelfishes, Mr. Wen-Ping Su and Bali Aquarich is blazing a trail so fast it’s almost…

Awesome Fish Spotlight: The Armitagei hybrid love child

Apolemichthys is one of seven angelfish genera that are ever popular in the aquarium trade. The genus encompasses some of the age old aquarium favourites such as the flag fin angelfish (A. trimaculatus), bandit angelfish (A. arcuatus) as well as…