Tennessee-based Sustainable Aquatics is releasing a new variety of Ocellaris Clownfish this week that they are calling the Color-Changing Ocellaris. These fish are the offspring from a single pair of normal Amphiprion ocellaris. Some of the offspring randomly undergo a…
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Dyed animals still an unfortunate reality in the reef aquarium hobby
When we think of dyed corals and anemones in the aquarium trade, the first thing we picture is grainy low quality images from the generic reef aquarium books of the 1980s and 1990s. Imagine our surprise when we saw the…
Meet the sailfin jawfish, a little known deepwater caribbean beauty
Rabaulichthys anthias are not the only fish in the reefs to sport elaborate dorsal finnage. Check out the beast of a jawfish that is the sail-fin jawfish, this specimen being tentatively identified as Opistognathus lonchurus. Hailing from the Western Atlantic, the…
Unique and weird jawfish-mimic octopus interaction videoed in Lembeh Straits
[vimeo width=”680″ height=”420″]http://vimeo.com/23317612[/vimeo] The video by Godehard Korp is certainly one of the strangest and most unique interactions between marine animals we have ever seen. The Mimic Octopus shown crawling on the muck reefs of Lembeh-Straits has a truly unique…
The Mysterious Albino Dottyback, Pseudochromis sankeyi “Albino”
Dr. Matthew L. Wittenrich discussed a very interesting fish at the recent MBI Marine Breeder’s Workshop – an Albino form of Pseudochromis sankeyi, produced by Dutch marine fish breeder Robert Brons of Brons Mariculture. While Wittenrich stated that this variation…
Juvenile Bank’s butterflyfish gets a closeup on video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuHDypcsxjg[/youtube] B-Box aquarium is one of the select few fish stores always at the forefront of something rare or exciting. This time, with a video of a juvenile Bank’s butterflyfish (Prognathodes aya). While not as rare and not nearly as expensive…
Break free from stale aquarium lighting design with PAR 38 LEDs & Ikea lamp shades
PAR 38 LED bulbs designed with aquariums in mind have been around for a while now. I’m quite pleased with the results using the Ecoxotic Panorama LED Fixture in growing various corals, so the decision was made to ditch the…
Proaquatix Annouces New Captive-Bred Watchman Goby Species
Commercial Marine Ornamental Fish Breeder Proaquatix promised more surprises for 2011 – the announcement of captive bred bluefin watchman goby is one we couldn’t have predicted. The Bluefin or Y-Bar Watchman Goby, Cryptocentrus fasciatus, isn’t commonly available in the trade…
AquaticLife press-fit tubing parts kit for serious RO/DI wizardry
Anyone who’s set up or added onto an existing reverse osmosis, deionization (RO/DI) unit has probably felt the pain of having to run out to the hardware store and grabbing a few 1/4 in. press-fit fittings to add more hose,…
MBI’s Marine Breeding Workshop, Year Two in Review
Last weekend in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, well over 50 marine fish and invertebrate breeders from the US and Canada came together for the 2nd Annual MBI Breeder’s Workshop. This one-day conference was held at the Cranbrook Institute of Science situated…
