[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THiYHZy8Ny4[/youtube] This juvenile conspicuous angelfish, Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus, made our weekend when we spotted it in Chris Campbell’s 500 gallon fish only display aquarium. We first visited this conspic angelfish over a year ago when he was being quarantined…
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Walt Smith’s Fiji Cultured Live Rock and Fish Heads’ Real Reef Live Rock Go Head-To-Head
Online saltwater livestock retailer Drs. Foster & Smith’s Diver’s Den at Live Aquaria caught our attention over the past couple weeks with a new product quietly “snuck in” to the daily Diver’s Den emails. Listed under the invertebrates category, there…
Anampses lennardi is absolutely stunning in this high definition video
Lennard’s wrasse, Anampses lennardi, was one of the most sensational new fish to make it to the aquarium trade last year. What better way to kick off another year of original Reef Builders videos than with this stunning specimen of…
Xanthic Acanthurus surgeonfish caught on video
The xanthic surgeonfish is the latest freak to come out of the family Acanthuridae. You’ve seen the piebald tang, the tricolor scopas, the aberrant scopas, the nearly all white yellow tang Casper but this all solid yellow Acanthurus is the…
Local Fish Stores: Separating the great from the mediocre
I tend to travel a lot and I’ve also moved quite a bit. In every town I called home, I’ve had my favorite local fish store (LFS) and I tended to be loyal to my favorites. Whenever travelling abroad, I…
CoralRx point-of-sale display boxes handy for stores and events
CoralRx was showcasing a nifty point-of-sale display box at their booth at Reef-A-Palooza. These boxes are a handy way to display either the CoralRx One Shot or 1 oz. glass bottles right at the register so there is no excuse…
Beautiful pair of wrought iron butterflyfish caught on video
[youtube width=”670″ height=”425″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H8jd_4NKL8[/youtube] Wrought Iron butterflyfish are unique among the Chaetodon for their black coloration, strong schooling behavior but most of all they just look totally freakin cool. Furthermore, their subtropical distribution in the waters around Japan means that these…
Phoenix LFS, Reef Culture, shows off Ecoxotic LED lighting
Thanks to one of our readers Chris White, we were shown this great local fish store in the Phoenix area, Reef Culture, that uses LED lighting on all its displays and holding tanks. Not only are the displays stunning, but…
Ista LED light bar a simple way to add LEDs to a smaller, low-light tank
The Ista LED light is a simple light bar from the folks over at Azoo that gives you a simple option for adding some LEDs to smaller tanks. The Ista LED light comes in two lengths — 18 and 23…
Hemianthus vivanus is a deepwater Caribbean anthias with a cockatoo’s crest
It’s really a shame that America is the largest consumer of marine ornamentals and although we spend a lot of energy acquiring the most exotic reef animals from around the world, yet the reef fish of our own backyards go…
