A well-stocked reef aquarium can be a diverse place, full of invertebrate surprises. But identifying the fauna traipsing about on live rock can be a challenge for the average aquarist and few creatures are quite so confusing as the Peanut Worm.…
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We can never get enough of the Tattoo Jawfish
If there’s a shortlist of marine reef fish that always capture our attention when any news or media surfaces of them, the Tattoo Jawfish is definitely on it. Only known from deep habitats of the Northwest Pacific, the Tattoo Jawfish, Opistognathus…
I see you looking at me, like I’m some kind of freak
Sight is a vital sensory system for most living things that enables them to process and visualise information from their surroundings. What to eat, and where to find it? Who to flee from, and who to mate with? Survival and procreation…
Get to know some unique, free-living and “walking” corals
Disc corals have gotten incredibly popular over the last few years for their ability to have extremely brilliant colors, a single polyp & corallite which is hard to propogate, and because they are just that cool! However disc and tongue corals…
Ancient predatory fish discovered in Arctic
A new species of carnivorous fish dating back over 375 million years was recently found in the Canadian Arctic. The fossils discovered show a large river-dwelling fish that preyed whatever passed in front of it.
Blueface Clarion and double rainbow passer angelfish are the highlights of recent Cortez Marine imports
Rarity aside, it would be hard to pick between either the amazing blueface Clarion angelfish above, or the double rainbow passer angelfish below. Both stunning Holacanthus specimens were recently caught by Cortez Marine. The odd blueface clarion was captured at…
New Deep Blue Chromis (chromis abyssus) found
You can add a new type of species that we would like to get our hands on. The species named Chromis abyssus or its common name referred to as Deep Blue Chromis was discovered off the coast of Ngemelis island,…
