ORA cracks into breeding the Priolepis Goby genus

Hobbyist aquarium breeders have been tinkering with gobies of the genus Priolepis for at least a decade now, and based on my own personal experience with P. hipoliti (the Rusty Goby), they are downright challenging to keep alive past 24…

Orange tongue coral with red tentacles and purple tips – first frag coming to tonight’s Diver’s Den

The mother of all orange tongue corals is coming to LiveAquaria’s Diver’s Den tonight. Being a colonial Fungiid, tongue corals of the Herpolitha genus are colonial which makes them a very suitable candidate for fragging and propagation, as is the case…

How Big is Bite-Sized in Marine Aquarium Fish?

A novice hobbyist once asked me whether there’s a particular “rule of thumb” with respect to the size of fish that can be kept in the same tank with a predatory fish, such as a lionfish or grouper. He’d heard…

Tomiyamichthys nudus is a beautiful shrimp goby that bears resemblance to a small Flabelligobius

Tomiyamichthys nudus is relatively new species described only in 2012, and published in Allen and Erdmann’s new book on reef fishes of the East Indies. Previously, it has only been known as Tomiyamichthys sp, or sometimes incorrectly as Flabelligobius sp,…

Quality Marine offering LFS a free femininus for buying 100 banggais

Here’s a special promotion from Quality Marine that is exclusively for the legit fish store businesses; buy 100 aquacultured banggai cardinalfish and QM will throw in a sweet, coveted femininus wrasse. A hundred banggai cardinalfish sounds like a lot of money…

ReefGen’s captive bred cuttlefish are ready for prime time

No one can ever accuse ReefGen of sitting on their laurels as they blaze a new trail of captive propagated marine life, this time in the direction of our Ceph Overlords. Sepia bandensis is one of the more desirable cuttlefish for…

Is this the best aquarium fish trap?

There’s so many ways to build a fish trap for removing problem fish from an aquarium, all of them a minor PITA to use, operate, and only marginally efficient at catching fish from the aquarium. Enter this simple beauty of…

Drs. Foster & Smith Acrylic Wipes make short work of cleaning tanks

As much time as we spend looking through the aquarium glass, there is nothing high tech about how we keep that glass looking clean and clear. Scrub down the algae on the inside, using a scraper blade or pad, and give a…

Jaguar Gobies are ORA’s latest Captive-Bred Introduction

ORA appears to have claimed the first “species first” for 2014, announcing today their accomplishments breeding the Jaguar Goby, Gobiopsis quinquecincta. That said, based on the timing and details, ORA has been sitting quietly on this success for several months, at…

2013 Marine Breeder’s Year in Review

It’s the 4th annual installment of the Marine Breeder’s Year in Review (see past installments at 2010, 2011a, 2011b, and 2012) and frankly, it’s been an interesting if not arguably “slow” year for a change, and yet I’ll probably write more…