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The Pink Cadillac Acro Looks Great at Any Size
The Pink Cadillac Acropora is a strain of SPS coral from Reef Raft Canada that we recently had the pleasure of seeing in person at a mature size. We’ve seen frags and pictures of this coral for many years now…
Watch a Crown-of-Thorns starfish get annihilated by giant snail
The Australian Institute of Marine Sciences is exploring using biological controls to help keep outbreaks of the coral-eating Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS) in check on the Great Barrier Reef. Sadly, COTS and cyclones are responsible for more than half of all…
Are you logging water temperature in your dive log?
If you’re already in the habit of logging your dives, take a second look and see if you’ve written down water temperatures. Scientist’s in the UK are asking for your help in recording subsurface ocean temperatures, through their citizen science…
Reeflowers Gives You Four Ways to Use Caledonia Salts
ReeFlowers is a Turkish company offering a wide range of additives for saltwater, freshwater, planted tanks, ponds and terrariums. We caught up with ReeFlowers at Interzoo 2016 to learn more about their new Caledonia line of Reef Salts. The Caledonia line…
How to keep the aquarium hobby fresh and exciting
From time to time one of my friends will comment about how they find it amazing that I still seem to have the same level of excitement about my tanks and the hobby as I did when they first met…
Odontanthias cauoh is a new anthias species from Brazil
Odontanthias cauoh is a new species of deepwater anthias hailing from the São Pedro and São Paulo archipelago of Brazil. Odontanthias cauoh is the second member of this genus to be described from the Tropical Atlantic Ocean, bringing the total number of described Odontanthias species…
Would you take the plunge in this 16th century diving suit?
This bizarre fallout suit which appears to be built for otherworldly creatures, come to us from the mind of Leonardo Da Vinci. Sketches of the proto diving apparatus were found in the Codex Arundel, a bound collection of notes written…
New Species of deepwater scorpionfish, Scorpaenodes barrybrowni
Scorpaenodes barrybrowni is a new pretty little species of scorpionfish from the deepwaters of the Caribbean Sea. Discovered in Dominica by the Curasub, the newly described Scorpaenodes barrybrowni is named in honor of Barry Brown, a member of team Curasub and the…
Flower Anemones Discovered in Bali Indonesia!
Flower anemones, Phymanthus crucifer, are one of the most striking reef invertebrates that until now, have only been available from Florida and surrounding Caribbean, or so we thought. Bali Aquarium shared some photos of a recent batch of ‘flower anemones’ from Indonesia…
