It’s been a long time coming but the aquarium hobby finally has an informative video that tells our side of the story. The aquarium hobby, and especially the aquarium fishery in Hawaii, is under constant fire by detractors who have a…
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The Truth About Yellow Tang Collecting in Hawaii
Along with the common clownfish, yellow tangs are one of the most iconic and familiar reef fish, on the reef and in our home aquariums. Because of this status there is a lot of attention paid to this species; it’s…
Catch and Release Mini Aquarium, IAC 2016
International Aquarium Congress 2016 | DAY 1 Catch and release mini aquariums is a novel approach to creating self-sustaining seasonal aquariums, where each year the animals go back to the ocean. These unique aquariums exist in remote coastal locations on the…
How propagation programs at the Monterey Bay Aquarium impact outstanding visitor experience. IAC 2016
International Aquarium Congress 2016 | DAY 1 Randy Hamilton, Vice President of Husbandry at the Monterey Bay Aquarium spoke to the history of propagation at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and how breakthroughs in Jellyfish, Cephalopods and Seahorse propagation has enabled…
Love The Oceans volunteer opportunity in Guinjata Bay Mozambique
Volunteer applications are now open for Love the Oceans marine conservation research in Mozambique. Volunteer opportunities take place in Guinjata Bay, part of the Inhambane province in Mozambique and are between 4 and 5 weeks long running from July to October. The…
Reef Builders Indonesia Travelogue – Bajau Village on Sumbawa Island
Years ago I read an article about the Bajau Laut “Sea Gypsies” and since then I have always wanted to see one of these community for myself. This past week Reefbuilders had the opportunity to visit a Bajau village and…
Indonesian BPKM official threatens to stop issuing live coral permits
Indonesia is far and away the largest supplier of beautiful and diverse coral for the global marine aquarium trade than anywhere else in the world. live corals as so inextricably associated with Indonesia that when we were a wee young…
RVS Fishworld spearheads Filipino net training and licensing program
In late August of this year, RVS Fishworld together with the Philippine national fisheries department spearheaded the first ever net training program in Santa Ana in the North of the country. The net-training program was financed primarily by RVS with…
A fly/spy on the wall at Cairns Marine – Part 1
The heaven and earth contrast between home aquarists and public aquarists have succeeded in fissuring the marine aquarium paradigm in more ways than one. While both industrial scenes are unified by the prevailing love of marine life, the industrial aspects and technical rigmarole…
A selection of Echinophyllia chalice corals from the Solomon Islands
As far as the hobby is concerned, nearly all of the stupid-awesome colored chalice corals are basically only found in Indonesia. Australia throws out some winners here and there but by and large, Indo is where it’s at when it…
