In May of this year, I asked if 2010 would be the year that the marine aquarium hobby shifted to breeding. By September of this year, I felt we already had our answer since this has indeed been one of…
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Ornamental marine fish culture getting shot in the fin with research funding
The ornamental marine fish culture, while very valuable to us aquarists, is typically viewed as unimportant to the world. The primary concern of the world is NOT putting fish in people’s aquariums, but instead, putting fish into people’s stomachs. When…
Blue Planet Reef Farms closes
Months ago we introduced you to a new company specializing in captive grown and reared fishes. Unfortunately, as of this month Blue Planet Reef Farms is closing down. An email sent to their customers cited a major disaster to a…
The blue-spot butterflyfish that holds a lot of promise for the future of captive reared aquarium fish
This petite blue spot butterflyfish, Chaetodon plebius, from Sustainable Aquatics may only be 1.25″/3cm long, but this little guy is a window into a very big future of captive reared fish. Sure it’s nice to have captive reared fish like…
ReefStock 2010 pictures part 3: a fisheye view
Unless you were one of the few dozen captive bred fish brought to ReefStock, chances are you didn’t get to see the show from a fisheye lens. The tight crowds made it difficult to capture how densely packed the floor…
My Coral Caretaker Job and Livestock Wholesale Explained
I’ve been working in the wholesale part of the aquarium hobby industry for just over three years. It has been a unique and insightful experience that opened my eyes and allowed me to see what and how the wholesale end…
CITES Marine Fish Workshop opens in Australia
The global ornamental aquatics industry is making its pitch this week at a special workshop taking place in Brisbane, Australia (7 to 10 May) for its proposal on how the international community can support the marine fish species most in…
Interview with a Seaweed Aquaculturist
Taras V Pleskun interviews Philip John Foronda of the Philippines Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, and finds out why seaweed aquaculture is such an important industry. Please Introduce yourself and how you first got into the aquaculture industry. Hi!…
The Jekyll & Hyde Chemistry of Phaeobacter gallaeciensis Bacteria
During the Fall of 2016, I was an undergraduate studying aquaculture at the University of Rhode Island. Like other aquaculture students, I was given an opportunity to work in one of the department labs as an assistant. It so happened,…
Fritz Brings Vitalis Fish Food Back To The US
Fritz Aquatics has today announced that they have reached an agreement with Sea to Sea Aquaculture and World Feeds to exclusively represent Vitalis in the USA. Vitalis Aquatic Nutrition is a British-made range of complete and balanced diets for all…
