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…
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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…
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Exhibit opens at Waikiki Aquarium
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN2ypEDoop0[/youtube] We wrote about the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands exhibit at the Waikiki Aquarium earlier this year and it finally opened in August. As the first major display in nearly six years at the aquarium, the NWHI exhibit features fish and…
From the archives: Current USA rounded corner aquarium coming?
Editor’s Note: Every so often we like to go and take a peek into the archive. We thought we’d share this post we did back in June 2008 doing what we do best — teasing you with the latest and…
New Fluval Sea Marine supplements and additives
Fluval’s new push into saltwater aquatics, is not stopping with just Sea marine salt. They have unveiled a new line of additives for saltwater aquariums. Fluval’s Sea additives cover the gamut with trace elements including Alkalinity, Calcium, Magnesium, Iodine, Strontium,…
Two great aquarium stores in Greenwich CT having big annual sales this weekend
House of Fins and Greenwich Aquaria are two of the finest retail aquarium stores in the country which we have written about extensively over the years – only LiveAquaria and Old Town Aquarium do as much shaking down of rare…
Welcome to Ecoreef Zero, population 1
Forget everything you know about reef tanks – this is a coral tank. What you see is the very limit of what a coral needs to survive and thrive, neatly packaged into a setup we call Ecoreef Zero. This nano…
