Maricultured Bali deep water Acropora colonies land in the US, already in some stores

  The incredible Bali deep water Acros that we first heard about in early November and which made top 10 corals of 2011 are now in the US of A. Both Oculus Aquatics and Route 66 Marine received a sizable…

More drool-worthy images of maricultured Bali acropora, coming to the US soon

Following our earlier post on some jaw-dropping colonies of Acropora speciosa we have since received additional pictures of other Bali Acros being maricultured in this part of Indonesia. What strikes us most about this new set of Bali Acros pictures…

Acropora speciosa maricultured colonies from Bali border on breathtaking

Acropora speciosa is a species of Acro that grows into an exotic bottle brush shape. Often overshadowed by Acropora echinata, A. speciosa rarely sports the super exotic colors that we see in the books, but that hardly matters now that…

Pseudanthias leucozonus re-appears from Bali sources

About a year ago, the lesser known white bar anthias, Pseudanthias leucozonus, made a grand appearance in large numbers at Greenwich Aquaria. Not known to many in the trade, the extremely rare anthias is a deep water resident of the…

Leptocephalus eel larvae filmed in Bali, an amazing transparent proto-fish

[youtube width=”680″ height=”420″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee7lhNOCGhY[/youtube] The amazing Leptocephalus eel-larvae filmed during a dive in Bali is incredible not just for its graceful swimming but also in the way that it is prowling the reef like a regular eel. The Leptocephalus larvae of…

Bali’s new reef fish and coral revealed in stunning detail by Conservation International photos

The eight new reef fish and single new coral species that we wrote about on Friday are already being revealed in great detail by new press photos from Conservation International. Among the newly discovered species are one Euphyllia coral, two…

Beautiful macro images of Bali reef life

This great video shows some of the incredible creatures found in the reefs off of Bali’s Amed and Tulamben areas. The video captures some great macro footage of different shrimp species, seahorses, pipefish, pygmee seahorses, leaf fish and even harlequin…