Several weeks ago, we had the chance to travel to the edge of the Earth, also known as Duluth to Minnesotans. We undertook the voyage through the treacherous Snowpacalypse Vortex III in order to finally lay our own eyes on…
Walt Smith’s Fijian Lightning Blue Stripe Clownfish
My jaw hit the floor when I saw this fish – a wild, yellow-tailed Fijian Blue Stripe Clownfish (Amphiprion chrysopterus) collected this week and first shared by Walt Smith International. What has my mind blown is this – the patterning…
Golden Clownfish pictures highlight this most exquisite reef fish
The Golden CLownfish of Dr. Chung stunned the world yesterday with only a short, not too well focused video. Well if you thought that was something, just wait until you get a load of these fresh pictures Dr. Chung made…
Golden-orange clownfish is a wild-collected stunner
What do you get when you cross a tangerine orange clownfish with a naked ocellaris? You’d probably end up with a mess, but in a perfect world where your clownfish-breeding hoop dreams come true on F1 (Like Matt’s Lightning clowns),…
South African Allardi Clownfish make for gorgeous adults
So many clownfish look so similar as juveniles, when you see them in stores in absence of mature examples it’s sometimes hard to know why you are paying more for an Allardi or Blue Stripe clownfish than say, that regular…
Longfin Ocellaris: The Verdict? It’s Genetic!
Just yesterday we published our 2013 Marine Breeding Year in Review, part II, which included speculation and a short update about Sustainable Aquatic’s Longfin Ocellaris breeding project. At the time the review was written in late December, Sustainable had just…
Mature adult Spotcinctus is a knockout clownfish
It’s been over four years since ORA unleashed the Spotcinctus clownfish onto the aquarium hobby and you know what that means? That means there are some gorgeous, beautiful adult specimens of this designer clownfish which are showing the strain’s full…
This is what a 20 year old pair of black ocellaris clownfish look like
Sometimes we like to be proud of some of our home aquarium fish which are pushing five, eight, and even ten years old, but that’s nothing compared to some really old fish. We’ve shared the 40 year old sixbar angelfish living…
Longfin clownfish clinches title for “guppy of the marine aquarium”
While “Guppy of the Marine Aquarium” has long been a title bestowed upon the Banggai Cardinalfish, I’ve long felt that the true guppy of the marine aquarium world, with its ubiquity of hobbyist breeding and ever-increasing diversity of aberrant, non-wild…
The real, twisted story behind finding Nemo
Most of us know the unique world of the clownfsih hobbyists, fish geeks and marine biologists. But trying to explain what really would have happened to the lead fish in the animated movie “Finding Nemo” would be very incestuously creepy.…
