Bali Aquarich Teases a Fresh Crop of New Captive Bred Angelfish

Mr. Su and his team at Bali Aquarich are at it again with a fresh new crop of captive bred angelfish. They only recently started shipping those gorgeous captive bred clarion angelfish babies and now we have a few more…

Huge Visual Update of 6-Meter Pieter’s 20 Foot Reef Tank

Pieter van Suijekom’s 20 foot reef tank has been in operation for the better part of a decade and in that time it has become something of a legend. This 6 meter long reef tank with a concave front glass panel…

Where the Big Corals Are: The Tank of Martin Lakin

A couple of months ago I wrote a piece asking where all the big corals went. Well on my recent speaking trip to England, I found them. In the tank of my friend Martin Lakin I was amazed to see…

Clipperton Angelfish Still Going Strong at the Aquarium of the Pacific

As popular as marine angelfishes are, there’s still a few species which hardly register on the radar of aficionados. It doesn’t help that several of these species like Apolemichthys guezei, Genicanthus spinus and Centropyge hotumatua are very rarely encountered by…

Revillagigedo Archipelago Inscribed To UNESCO’s World Heritage List

The Revillagigedo Archipelago in the eastern Pacific Ocean has just been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List! The World Heritage Committee inscribed Revillagigedo and 7 other sites to the list on the last afternoon of their 40th session on July…

Please support the Jesus Larralde Memorial & Family Fund

Jesus Larralde, CEO of Farside Tropicals and fish collector extraordinaire has passed away. Jesus was a shining light in the marine aquarium hobby and was an ambitious rising star in the marine aquarium industry. He was featured over two years…

An artful look at Bali Aquarich’s captive bred angelfish triumphs

Any casual or regular reader of Reef Builders’ pages will no doubt be well acquainted with the powerhouse of marine fish breeding that is Bali Aquarich. Mr. Wen-Ping Su and associates have pioneered the first captive breeding of so many…

Another look at the captive-bred emperor x annularis angelfish hybrid

Bali Aquarich is far and away the world leader in breeding marine angelfishes in captivity. With that experience they’ve offered at least seven full blooded species of large angelfishes from the Pomacanthus, Holacanthus and Chaetodontoplus genera, but they’ve also gotten really lucky…

Balinese faux gold: Captive bred hybrid Goldflake Angelfish

In continuation with our previous post on Bali Aquarich’s new Euxiphipops angelfish, we’re revealing the second angelfish to hit the scene. This time its not one species, but a hybrid combination of two. This marks the eighth species of angelfish…

Orange is the new black

With all the buzz surrounding Bali Aquarich’s newest captive bred angels, let us not forget some of their perennial, evergreen staples that really started it all. The spectral Platax pinnatus and chromic Holacanthus clarionensis are without a doubt two of Bali Aquarich’s most…