As in years past, House of Fins’ annual SPLASH sale yielded lots of awesome rare fish, and there were many exciting first imports. In addition to the tigertail coral beauty and that crazy Mauritius triggerfish, there was the token gem…
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Sea Atlanta’s grand opening this weekend kicks off the start of a powerhouse LFS in the heart of Georgia
It’s a really good time to be a reefer in Atlanta right now; Jorge’s Pure Reef has been going steady for a while now and this weekend Sea Atlanta is having its grand opening where it will finally be open…
Uber thin OLED light from Rohm and Lumiotec finally hits a consumer grade price point
The OLED light of our dreams has arrived but unfortunately, its creators put a useless hanger on it. Form factor aside, the $450 OLED Hanger light may seem expensive as a regular light in your home or closet, but with…
Deepwater red Callionymus dragonet fished up from the deep by Blue Harbor
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6hlIB_vQ3Y[/youtube] This red dragonet is an unusual deep water species that was acquired by Blue Harbor Japan and it has a striking red and white coloration. The scooter blennies and mandarin gobies (neither of which are blennies or…
Early imports of Vietnam mushroom anemones include a few showstopping morphs
We knew that Vietnam stony corals were coming but who would have thunk that some highly tenticularized forms of beaded Discosoma mushroom anemones would be the first unique corals from that region. The Vietnam mushroom anemones pictured were imported by …
Hawaii gets another proposal to ban marine aquarium fish collection
Talk of banning the collection of marine aquarium livestock in Hawaii is back again just eight months since Hawaii’s House Bill 580 was reported here on Reef Builders and only six months since we reported on HB580’s failure. Yet it seems…
A peak inside the De Jong Marinelife holding facility
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-VfT9Uc2MI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] De Jong Marinelife is one of the largest marine livestock wholesalers in Europe supplying anything from sharks to public aquaria to frags to Local Fish stores and they recently posted the video tour above of their holding facility. Although…
Innovative Marine shows off Nuvo 16 loaded with skkye tablet LED and spin stream returns
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbAh25Rq4y0[/youtube] Now this is interesting, we knew that Innovative Marine was hitting the ground running with their launch of new aquarium products but the Nuvo 16 is packing a little more heat than usual. In addition to the…
Three new Indonesian species of fang blennies described: Meiacanthus abruptus, M. erdmanni and M. cyanopterus
It’s been less than five month since Conservation International’s survey of Bali yielded new coral and fish species and one of those blennies has already been described along with two others. Meiacanthus abruptus, M. erdmanni and M. cyanopterus are all…
Maintaining fish biomass at certain levels can save a reef
Maintaining fish stocking levels and overall biomass around coral reefs can play a vital role in their survival and prevent their eventual collapse. According to a new study overfishing and the loss of the overall reef biomass can generate a…
