Tuesday, ORA announced their latest in-house accomplishment, the successful spawning and rearing of the Hector’s Goby, Koumansetta hectori. Ask yourself, when was the last time you’ve seen a captive-bred Hector’s Goby? You haven’t. But is this a species first? ORA believes…
Attend the MBI Workshop, get your own Lightning Maroon Clownfish
The Marine Breeding Initiative wants to give you a Lightning Maroon Clownfish. That’s right. We are not fooling. The Lightning Maroon Clownfish was almost too good to be true when discovered back in 2008 and thanks to hobbyists like Matt Pedersen and…
Martin A. Moe, Jr., Speaking Twice in 2013
We hope that Martin A. Moe Jr., godfather of marine ornamental fish breeding and author of the best selling marine aquarium book, the Marine Aquarium Handbook – Beginner to Breeder – needs no introduction. We’ll simply mention that he was…
2012 MBI Marine Breeders Workshop – July 28th
It’s official, the Marine Breeding Initiative’s 2o12 Marine Breeder’s Workshop is scheduled for July 28th. It will be held once again at the wonderfully inviting Cranbrook Science Institute, located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This year’s workshop will follow the same…
MBI’s Marine Breeding Workshop, Year Two in Review
Last weekend in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, well over 50 marine fish and invertebrate breeders from the US and Canada came together for the 2nd Annual MBI Breeder’s Workshop. This one-day conference was held at the Cranbrook Institute of Science situated…
MACNA XXII – Matt Pedersen’s Story
I hope to see my fellow Reef Builders contributors jump in and share their take on MACNA 2010 in the coming days. Seeing the annual pilgrimage to the marine aquarium hobby’s nomadic mecca through multiple points of view may offer…
Will 2010 mark the marine hobby’s shift to captive breeding?
We may look back at 2010 as the year the marine aquarium hobby truly realized the importance of captive breeding and started doing something about it. I’ve just returned from speaking at Reef Ed, the annual educational event put on…
MASM Breeding Initiative calling all fish breeders to arms
The Marinelife Aquarium Society of Michigan, MASM, has officially kicked off their innovative Breeding Initiative with their first Breeders Challenge. If you have been looking for an excuse to get into breeding marine ornamentals, this is the program you have…
