The yellow carpet anemone is the latest Stichodactyla color variation to reveal itself not through pictures or hearsay but through actual living specimens. Global Reef Supply this week received not one but a handful of beautiful yellow carpet anemones which look…
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Even the big coral wholesalers are getting cozy with LEDs
While many aquarists and some stores are busy holding onto technologies of the past, even the big time coral wholesalers on LA’s infamous one hundred and fourth street are adopting LED lighting in a big way. While in SoCal for the…
Double black fin Centropyge heraldi looks quite different from C. woodheadi
A great new video from Sea Dwelling Creatures shows a killer comparison between a double black-fin Centropyge heraldi and the pygmy angelfish species formerly known as Centropyge woodheadi. Once believed to be a separate species, Centropyge woodheadi with its black tipped…
StarkLED Blunova offers a wide range of features in a small LED package
The BlueNova from StarkLED is an interesting new LED light with built wireless capability and control. StarkLED is a company completely new to the LED game, but feature wise they’ve seem to have hit the nail right on the head.…
New Tuamotu reef fish exports could increase supply of west Pacific species
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqOTUmpB2og[/youtube] It was an awesome day when we began seeing Tuamotu Maxima clams, but we could hardly contain ourselves when we learned from Sea Dwelling Creatures that they would begin receiving fish exported from this far flung region…
Damselfish from Tufi, Papua New Guinea already starting to spread in the states
The new damselfish captured by Seasmart fishermen in Papua New Guinea may have been discovered a little over a week ago but that hasn’t stopped it from becoming a legal immigrant to American aquariums. Last week Sea Dwelling Creatures received…
True personifer angelfish come to the US from West Australia
In the late 90s, the personifer angelfish from Australia was split up into two species: the Classic ‘personifer’ angelfish from East Australia was named Chaetodontoplus meridithi and the angelfish from West Australia was given the nominal species name of C.…
The biggest marine and reef aquarium stories of 2009
2009 was a very big year for reef aquarists around the world and it was our pleasure to bring the news to reefers during the last completion of Earth’s solar orbit. We have hand selected some stories which are shoed-in…
Marine Depot shutters Livestock business
There was once a time when everyone and their grandma was setting up online or mail order livestock vending like boomtowns of the old West. You just couldn’t keep track of all the livestock newcomers. In a seeming fit of…
Hermit crab pictured living in Walking Dendro
Walking Dendros are still fairly new to the reefing hobby, only being introduced as recently as 2009. The coral is Heteropsammia cochlea, a substrate-dwelling yet photosynthetic stony coral that gains its “walking” title by way of a Sipunculan (Peanut worm,)…
