More and more, amazing species of tobies like this Canthigaster tyleri are coming to light giving us more reasons to love the colorful diversity of sharpnose puffers. Tyler’s toby is a deepwater reef fish from the Indian Ocean which clearly…
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…
Lightning strikes twice with two incredible red Fungiid disc corals
We don’t know what the heck is going on with the incredible disc coral above but whatever it is, it’s unbelievable. Elongated red tentacles on top of a dark colored coral polyp looks like this Ctenactis is on fire, it…
Gorgonia mariae sea fan is the SPS of soft corals and gorgonians
There is something about true Caribbean Gorgonia sea fans that has always fascinated us – their small polyps and highly regular structure is unusual for a soft corals. The Gorgonia sea fans have a more determinate growth form than most gorgonians which makes us liken…
Sprawling galleries of extremely rare fish and corals springs up on the new Russo’s Reef website
If you’ve been in the hobby a long time and you think you’ve seen it all, you ought to go take a look at the extensive amount of rare fish and coral photos that have been uploaded to the new…
Glabrous fan lobster from New South Wales is a crustacean cool enough to have its own tank
We’ve always kind of regarded slipper lobsters with a modicum of respect – cool because they are hardy and interesting, they can’t pinch you and they are welcome in both fish and reef aquariums since they don’t really mess with…
Novaculops sand wrasse from Australia via Russo’s Reef
The picture of this stunning Novaculops halsteadi was taken by Russo’s Reef who imported this sand wrasse from Australia. Yesterday we brought you news of Halstead’s sand wrasse which arrived at Reef Corner in Holland, but this intriguing wrasse species…
Ellerkeldia rubra, the red-stripe dwarf seaperch from Western Australia
Ellerkeldia rubra is an exciting new dwarf seaperch species that is very rarely collected from Western Australia. The Ellerkeldia genus includes many species that greatly resemble Hypoplectrodes sseaperches but Ellerkeldia has a slightly more elongated body shape. Although a few…
Another hybrid pygmy angelfish, what is it?
Another day, another hybrid pygmy angelfish and we still have another one to post for you in a couple days. From the producers of “Tigerpyge“Â comes the story of yellow pygmy angelfish which is neither a heraldi, nor a woodhead,…
