Pacific Island Aquatics scores with very unusual Randall’s Anthias lookalike

Pacific Island Aquatics recently brought in this curious looking anthias rumored to have come from Kiribati Islands at 245ft. While the fish bears a striking resemblance to Pseudanthias randalli, it is pretty obvious that it is not. First off the range…

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Aberrant diadema dottybacks are collected around the Indo-Pacific

We’re not sure what it is about Pictichromis diadema that lends itself to mutations and aberrations of its color pattern seemingly much more often than other species of Pictichromis and Pseudochromis. Is it possible that the unusually colored dottybacks are…

Two great aquarium stores in Greenwich CT having big annual sales this weekend

House of Fins and Greenwich Aquaria are two of the finest retail aquarium stores in the country which we have written about extensively over the years – only LiveAquaria and Old Town Aquarium do as much shaking down of rare…

Cebuan rarities band together for one exciting shipment

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QUbqPbcDxQ[/youtube] A large shipment of cool reef critters was recently imported to Singapore which included a menageries of rare reef fish and a wunderpus. The above video of the Wunderpus clearly shows the amazing colour and banding patterns associated with this…

Centropyge madness hits several Japanese LFS

The local fish stores of Japan are once again in the spotlight as they chaperon a new batch of very unusual Centropyge pygmy angelfish. The fish shown above is a very unusual dwarf angel brought in by B-Box Japan. We’re…

Coral Morphologic’s Colin Foord to speak on urban Acropora at TEDxMiami

You usually think of Acropora as being a delicate coral group, ready to die at a moment’s notice but would you believe that there are acropora growing inside Miami Florida? We’re not talking about Acros in reef tanks, we’re talking…

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Man builds largest home aquarium in the UK in his basement

Sometimes we go to extremes in this hobby but few go as far as Jack Heathcote. The UK resident wasn’t satisfied with a simple large aquarium and built what could be considered the largest home aquarium in the country in the…

Brown Clown Gobies are anything butt…and Naked Green Clown Gobies?

Seems like we’ve forgotten the clown gobies of the genus Gobiodon lately. Generally truly inexpensive and often thought of as common, they lack the exclusivity factor of something like a captive bred Brazilian Goldline Goby (Elacatinus figaro) or the mystical qualities of…