Good news from Hawaii over the collection of aquarium fish, or just a delay?

]CORAL Magazine Sr. Editor Ret Talbot reported late last week that the “Proposed Bills on Hawaii Aquarium Fishery [are] Dead for 2012”. This news was widely met with optimism. However, we fear there could be a downside to such news.…

White cap clownfish pair survives nine day journey from New Jersey to Florida

The white cap clownfish, Amphirpion leucokranos, is a very rare, naturally occurring hybrid clownfish “species” which is seldom seen in the aquarium trade. You can imagine ORA’s delight when Brian Griffin offered them a spawning pair of white cap clownfish…

Macropharyngodon moyeri is a unique leopard wrasse from the waters of Japan

Macropharyngodon moyeri is a lesser known and rare species of leopard wrasse that never enters the mainstream aquarium trade as far as we know. The largely Japan endemic wrasse can apparently also be found in Taiwan, but is mostly found…

Frag Tree 360 by Thrive Aquatics is a unique way to store and grow your frags

The Frag Tree 360 by Thrive Aquatics is a unique and efficient way to store and display your coral frags. Building on the design concept of the Thrive Aquatics Coral Frag plug Tree, the The Frag Tree 360 holds up to 27 frag…

Inter-subgeneric hybrids of Roaps butterflies are rare and amazing

Roaps butterflyfishes can form hybrids with other unrelated members of the butterflyfish group although very rarely, to form inter-subgeneric hybrids. Fishes and other animals generally hybridize with other species that are highly similar, usually in the same genus, or within the…

Vertex Sensor Mag moonlights as an attractive support for a gyre frag tank divider

The Vertex Sensor Mag magnetic probe holder is attractive acrylic, neodymium and titanium and there is no doubt that it can hold up a few probes, but what else can it do? Well in the time that we’ve been using…

Vital-Wave from Eco-Lamps is a new line of LED spotlights with exotic color spectrum

The Vital-Wave LED spotlights by Eco-Lamps are just what the reef doctor ordered if you have a hankering for ‘rare’ LED color spectrum like Cyan, Indigo and Ultraviolet. Eco-Lamps, better known in the US as AcanLighting, has released the Vital-Wave…

This simple two-bommie aquascape exudes subtle beauty

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PQr6Y1tMaY[/youtube] When it comes to different school of reef aquarium aesthetics, our penchant definitely lies on the side of less is more. Case in point is this beautiful simple reef aquarium featuring two bommies of rock, a few…

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SeaLab No. 28 mineral blocks – anybody still use these?

Of course some people must be using the Sea-Lab No. 28 mineral replenishing blocks because they’re still making them and we still see them on the same spot on the shelf of the mom n’ pop fish stores. We haven’t used…