The awesome Lipogramma evides pictured above is just one of many super rare fishes recently brought up from the deepwaters of Curacao. The seemingly boring looking fish in monochrome may look ordinary, but do not be fooled. L. evides is…
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Plectranthias nanus is so nano
Don’t let the large macro photograph fool you, this Plectranthias nanus is barely topping out at 7/8th of an inch (22mm), total length. The adorable Plectranthias nanus is yet another little nano reef fish gem that Greenwich Aquaria has imported…
Paracheilinus bellae, bell’s flasher wrasse at House of Fins
Bell’s flasher wrasse, Paracheilinus bellae, is one of the most elusive of the ornamental labridae. With the lyretail of P. angulatus, the dorsal filaments of P. filamentosus and more blue linework than P. octotaenia, Bell’s Flasher wrasse is at the…
Mesophotic Reef- low light reefs can teach us new things about contemporary reefing
Tim Wijgerde of Coralscience.org is building a mesophotic reef system, basically a low light reef. Tim dropped in to share with us why he decided to do a low light reef tank and what low light reef animals can teach…
From revolution to evolution: a look at two hobby trends and their impact
After 30-something years in the hobby, you see a lot of trends come and go. Fads and “new” ideas show up and subsequently vanish back into the mists of time. Some of these “fads” do stick around a while, yet…
First video of the holy grail peppermint angelfish
The Peppermint Angelfish? We promise that ReefBuilders is not turning into a video farm but as rare as this fish is, the video recently posted on blueharbor.co.jp is the only one of it’s kind, that we know of. Furthermore, for…
