Canon’s AutoFocus Animal Eye Tracking Even Works on Fish!

Making good photographs and videos of fast swimming fish is no easy task, and it takes a lot of practice, trial and error to know how to work a particular camera for the job. The challenges of focusing on fish…

Saltwater fish can’t do this! Cichlid parents rule

There are few writers in the marine aquarium world who can claim to love marine fish any more than we do. We do our best to cover the weird, the rare, the colorful, the unusual, and with Matt Pedersen’s help,…

Fish handle numbers on par with college students

We can leave all the jokes aside but an interesting study has found some fish to score just as well as college students on some basic number tests. Using the highly social, freshwater mosquitofish the researchers conducted a lab test…

PECTO going blue on saltwater, freshwater fish

Apparently back in August of this year PETCO decided to “go blue” (link to their announcement) in their aquatics department. This “go blue” is being described as “PETCO believes in taking a preventative and healthier approach to maintaining a fish’s…