Imagine that we didn’t live in a world with designer clownfish, no platinums, no perculas and no snowflakes either. If we lived in that world and you happened to see this pair of Picasso percula clownfish in the offices of LiveAquaria you…
Australian Leopard-wrasse Quarantine Technique
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Family: Labridae Genus: Macropharyngodon Species: choati, Randall, John E. 1978 Common Names: Choati Leopard-wrasse, Australian Leopard-wrasse Of all the Leopard Wrasses one can acquire for their reef aquarium Macropharyngodon choati is…
Kevin Kohen is elevating reef aquarium fish photography to an art form
Kevin Kohen, MASNA Hobbyist of the Year, Mr. LiveAquaria himself is a proficient livestock manager as well as a rare fish afficionado. Of the many ways that Kevin enjoys reef fish and shares that passion with all of us is…
Video of tiny radiated filefish turned out accidentally awesome
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8JzzNob9bE&[/youtube] If you thought that radiated filefish, Acreichthys radiatus, were cute in pictures, just wait until you see the tiny one in the video above swimming through one of Kevin Kohen’s awesome small office reef tanks. Just because he works…
LiveAquaria to offer “HOLY WOW” black margin dottyback pair tonight!
Yes, the black-margin dottyback is a “holy wow” fish. I remember emailing LiveAquaria.com Director Kevin Kohen about the Pseudochromis tapeinosoma months ago, so I can hardly contain myself that he found it and has now brought it to market, as…
Cook Island Helfrich firefish shows up again in the Diver’s Den
What can we say? The “true” Helfrich firefish from the Cook Istlands is a fish that we just can’t get over. For the longest time the Helfrich firefish, Nemateleotris helfrichi was the holy grail of dartfish and over the years…
Wisconsin Northwoods “Little Bohemia” of marine life
When we think of marine aquaculture and warehouse facilities we think about the typical havens like Southern California’s thriving wholesaler industry a stone’s throw from LAX. So it’s amazing to see Drs. Foster & Smith’s LiveAquaria, one of the top-notch…
LiveAquaria’s Acropora and SPS coral display tank
The deluge of Australian LPS corals which have flooded the US aquarium market may have all but overwhelmed the SPS subculture of the reefing community but now that many of us have had our fill of lords, hillaes, moseleyas and…
