Sabine Penisson has been picturing the photographs of Reef Builders, articles and many other publications in Europe with some fine marine life and marine aquarium photography for quite some time now. As impressive as her imagery has been, Sabine’s latest round…
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Euphyllia baliensis is a new large polyp stony coral with extremely thin branches
We all had a good look at the new Euphyllia baliensis with the huge announcement from Conservation International in Spring of 2011 but now the new coral has a name, and a whole lot more details on what makes this coral special.…
New study finds that biodiversity doesn’t always equal resiliency
A recent study suggests that corals with greater diversity of symbiodinium (aka zooxanthellae) are more sensitive to environmental changes than corals with fewer variety of symbiodinium. Published by the Royal Society Biological Sciences, the research breaks down the corals as…
Friday Smorgasbord: Ocean Health Index, why fish school, crochet reefs, artificial islands, underwater hamsters, iMac aquariums and a lionfish derby
Another Friday and another interesting smorgasbord of news and tidbits. First off is news about a new Ocean Health Index developed by marine scientists from a range of conservation, academic, and government institutions this scoring system was built to assess…
Friday Mega-Smorgasbord: Squid arms, robofish, shark feast, sea slugs, coral planting, living undersea, AEFW hit the high seas and gigantic clumps of whale poo
We have a great post lined up for this Friday with everything from amazing to just odd and something in between. We lead off this edition with a breaking story about deep sea squids that actually tear its arms free…
Northernmost coral reef discovered near Japan
Researchers have found what is the highest latitude coral reef to date off the coast of Japan. The reef was found at 34° N in the the bay between Tsushima and Iki Islands by Hiroya Yamano and his team. That…
You can add Skeletal Erosion Band to the list of known aquarium diseases
Ugh, as if we didn’t have enough coral diseases and parasites to worry about, now we can add Skeletal Erosion Band caused by the heterotricch ciliate Halofolliculina corallasia to the list. The tiny little creature is a cingle celled protozoan that…
Gorgeous up close video tour is like a safari of established aquarium corals
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwPZzonDWCk[/youtube] Anyone can take videos of freshly collected corals but for us, there’s a distinct attraction that we hold towards corals that corals that are looking great, and appear to have been settled into captive life for a…
Tour de BlueHarbor – Part 1. Beyond the shopfront.
BlueHarbor is perhaps, one of the more iconic and reputable fish stores in the East and maybe even the world – Renowned for their incredible repertoire of some of the rarest reef fishes, as well as Koji’s incredible knowledge and…
Histiophryne pogonius frogfish has a face only a marine aquarist could love
Histiophryne pogonius is a newly described species of anglerfish which is expertly camouflaged for habitats of coralline algae and sponge. Related to the sensational psychedelic frogfish, Histiophryne psychadelica, the new Histiophryne pogonius is especially lumpy in form, even for a frogfish,…
