Madagascar corals and fish don’t get a lot of airtime compared to their Indo-Pacific counterparts but at the Barren Isles Madagascar reef life is clearly thriving. Madagascar is home to innumerable endemic species of terrestrial plants and animals but the local waters…
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The elusive Bodianus neopercularis and its near perfect clone
The genus Bodianus has got to be one of the the favorites amongst reefers and fish lovers alike. They’re robust, hardy, have so much personality and not to mention beautiful. Here at ReefBuilders, we’ve already covered many of the rarer…
Captive bred Koran angelfish – another smashing success for Rising Tide
On the heals of a close call with breeding the Schooling Bannerfish, Heniochus diphueretes, the marine ornamental team at the University of Florida’s Tropical Aquaculture Lab doubled down and has just released photographs and video of what is probably the…
Pseudochromis erdmanni, a new dottyback species from Ambon and Sulawesi
Pseudochromis erdmanni is a new species of dottyback from Indonesia which has just been described by Jack Randall. The specimens used in the description of P. erdmanni were collected from Ambon and the Rajah Ampat Islands of Indonesia but is…
Yellow Hawkfish, Paracirrhites xanthus, is a rare import from Christmas Island
The yellow hawkfish, Paracirrhites xanthus, is an extremely rare relative of the arc eye hawkfish that was only just described in 1997 by Baensch and Debelius. The yellow hawkfish is not to be confused with Cirrhitichthys aureus, the Golden Hawkfish…
Guide to Decapod Crustaceans of the South Pacific is a FREE download
Throw your claws up for Joseph Poupin and Matthieu Juncker, two French crustacean researchers who have not only completed an awesome guide to the decapod crustaceans of the South Pacific, but they’ve also made it available as a free downloadable…
Reef Culture Technologies is ramping up to breed angelfish again
After a long absence from breeding marine angelfishes, we are happy to announce that Frank Baensch has already begun to get Reef Culture Technologies back into gear. For a few years in the early 2000s Frank Baensch was a prolific…
Giveaway: World Atlas of Marine Fishes, one book to rule them all
This is a repost of a story we first did back in fall 2008. Marine Depot would like for us to giveaway one copy of this book to remind you that they still sell this book for cheap and it…
Some tips and tricks to keep coral munching fish in a reef aquarium
I often hear fellow hobbyists taking about the risk keeping a certain type of fish in their reef tank. Usually, it’s that beloved Angelfish or ultra-cool Butterflyfish that the hobbyist simply cannot resist! I know- I deal with this all…
From revolution to evolution: a look at two hobby trends and their impact
After 30-something years in the hobby, you see a lot of trends come and go. Fads and “new” ideas show up and subsequently vanish back into the mists of time. Some of these “fads” do stick around a while, yet…
