This story about Tridacna costata was originally published over three years ago. Almost nothing more has come to our attention regarding the little known Tridacna costata from the Red Sea, so here’s a refresher You know, when the first reports surfaced of…
Red Sea Reef Spec whittles down reef aquarium T5 lamps to three colors
Reef Spec by Red Sea is a trio of T5 fluorescent lamps for marine and reef aquarium which has figured out that three good color combinations is almost everything to make reef fish and corals look slammin’. Red Sea will soon…
Reef Mature Pro Kit from Red Sea is loaded with all kinds of pro-biotic products
Reef Mature Pro Kit is a new packaging of additives from Red Sea which aims to bring your reef tank around in record time. The Bacto-Start, Nitro-Bac, NO3PO4-X and KH Coralline Gro found in the Reef Mature Pro Kit all stimulate…
Blastomussa loyae resurrected as a valid species from the Red Sea
Blastomussa loyae was first described from the Red Sea in 1978 as a separate species from Blastomussa merleti due to the separated walls and ‘irregular voids’ in the corallites of colonies. Blastomussa loyae was first discovered growing in abundance alongside B. merleti but…
Red Sea refreshes and updates popular Reef Starter Kit with current products
Red Sea, the Israeli based aquarium manufacturer and goods supplier has refreshed their popular Reef Starter Kit. The Reef starter kit has actually been around a while, with the older version hiding in the back of shelves at local fish…
Red Sea reef fish beginning to trickle back into the aquarium trade
Red Sea reef fish were the pinnacle of aquarium fish provenance when we started keeping a marine aquariums in the nineties. For a decade orchid dottybacks, red sea pearlscale butterflyfish, broomtail wrasses and bicinctus clownfish seemed like staple aquarium fish that would…
A closer look at the extremely elusive Cirrhilabrus blatteus
Cirrhilabrus blatteus, more aptly named the purpled-boned fairy wrasse, is a member of the genus that is so extremely seldom seen that these handful of pictures of the fish in this post are probably some of the best out there.…
Red Sea MAX S 500 line of aquariums gets a thorough video walkthrough
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIX5UjITQ3k[/youtube] Red Sea has been teasing their MAX S line of large, all-in-one marine aquariums ever since we first saw them at InterZoo 2010 in Nuremberg, Germany. As much as we’ve tried to describe the lovely Red Sea…
Tomiyamichthys dorsostigma is the latest described goby from the Red Sea
In anticipation of his forthcoming Fishes of the Red Sea Jack Randall and fellow Ichthyologists have been busily working on describing new fish species from this region, the latest of which being the handsome goby Tomiyamichthys dorsostigma. We don’t see too many Tomiyamichthys gobies…
John Randall working on Fishes of the Red Sea, a new book with 1500 images
Fishes of the Red Sea is a new forthcoming book by Jack Randall which will become the ultimate guide to all fishes found living between the shores of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Fishes of the Red Sea is part of…
