The Antibes Marineland scored another captive breeding success, successfully raising the common and popular Pseudanthias squamipinnis, also known as the spotfin anthias. This achievement wasn’t the first time that the spotfin anthias was successfully raised, the Long Island Aquarium raised…
France Oceanopolis, produces Ostorhinchus chrysopomus, the Spotted-Gill Cardinalfish
The Spotted-Gill Cardinalfish, Ostorhinchus chrysopomus, is not the most sexy, exotic fish for us Reef Tank Keepers. But I will disagree with this statement for few reasons: cardinalfish are nocturnal and live in schools, so they are a very attractive…
France’s Marineland Has Rare Captive Breeding of Coral Shrimpfish
As we approach the opening of MACNA 2019 which this year is dedicated to Aquaculture, there appears to be lots of news and announcement about new captive breeding successes. The Antibes Marineland located in South of France, has a long history…
Baby Nautilus Born at Toba Aquarium, Japan
Nautilus area free swimming group of shelled cephalopods that are beyond bizarre in their appearance, even when compared to other marine life. Large adult Nautilus can grow to ten inches in diameter, and their shells have been used as ornamentation…
Top 5 Saltwater Fish We Wish Were Domesticated
Once upon a time, successful captive breeding of marine fish was pretty much limited to clownfish and new successes were heralded as huge triumphs. Nowadays there’s announcements of new species culturing breakthroughs fairly regularly and these are usually fish that…
Bali Aquarich Teases a Fresh Crop of New Captive Bred Angelfish
Mr. Su and his team at Bali Aquarich are at it again with a fresh new crop of captive bred angelfish. They only recently started shipping those gorgeous captive bred clarion angelfish babies and now we have a few more…
Marcia’s Anthias Successfully Captive Bred in India
Anthias are some of the most visible small marine fish of tropical coral reef environments and many of them are also very popular in reef aquariums. The genus Pseudanthias particularly includes many of the smaller, aquarium-suitable species and aquaculture researchers recently…
Visit To The Biota Aquariums Headquarters (Video)
The last few years have seen an explosion of new marine fish being captive bred and Biota Aquariums is an important part of the vanguard. In association with Biota Palau where many new fish have been captive bred, or brought…
Top Five Rare Captive Bred Dottybacks
You know, clownfish get all the attention when it comes to domesticated strains – and angelfish get all the praise and attention when a new species is bred in captivity for the first time. But there’s one group of fish…
Borbonius Anthias Captive Bred By Biota Palau
Biota Palau is no stranger to being first to captive breed some popular tropical marine fish and the Borbonius anthias is the latest species to be added to their catalog. Their captive bred mandarins have revolutionized the experience of keeping…
