While “Guppy of the Marine Aquarium” has long been a title bestowed upon the Banggai Cardinalfish, I’ve long felt that the true guppy of the marine aquarium world, with its ubiquity of hobbyist breeding and ever-increasing diversity of aberrant, non-wild…
Sustainable Aquatic’s new “Frostbite” Designer Ocellaris Clownfish has us Excited about Genetics!
It appears that Sustainable Aquatics has introduced what may be a first of it’s kind clownfish. This new fish, dubbed the Frostbite, is said to be a crossing of two different mutations, the white (presumably Wyoming White or Fancy White)…
Sustainable Aquatics releases captive bred Saddleback and Sebae Clownfish
We always are excited about learning about new species that are captive-bred and we just learned about two new species of tank-bred clownfish Sustainable Aquatics has added this week — the Brown Saddleback Clownfish (Amphiprion polymnus) and the Sebae Clownfish (Amphiprion…
Black Clarkii clownfish from Sustainable Aquatics
Black Clarki clownfish will soon be available from Sustainable Aquatics who has been on a streak of releasing new captive-bred fish. Clarki clownfish are probably the second most popular species of Amphiprion for aquariums. The light color form is the most commonly…
Sustainable Aquatics Introduces Captive-Bred Sunkist Clowns
The Sunkist Clownfish is a naturally occurring variety of the pink skunk clownfish, Amphiprion perideraion. I’ve been extolling the importance of understanding and appreciating the wild geographic variants of our clownfish species for a couple years now, so you might understand the excitement…
ORA Rubrocinctus is now identified as Amphiprion barberi – the Fiji Clownfish
ORA announced today that upon DNA testing, it has been confirmed that the fish they have been selling as the Australian Amphiprion rubrocinctus is in fact the Fijian species Amphiprion barberi. How did this happen? In short, it happened because years…
Sustainable Aquatics cultured corals coming soon
With a firm mind share of the captive bred aquarium fish market Sustainable Aquatics is now turning its attention to providing cultured corals. For the past couple of weeks Sustainable Aquatics has been teasing a variety of medium sized frags…
Checkered cardinalfish, Apogon margaritophorus joins the long list of captive bred fish
Apogon margaritophorus is a cardinalfish by many names; the checkered cardinalfish, ochre-striped cardinal, the margarita cardinalfish and now you can also call them captive-bred. Sustainable Aquatics just announced the release of their captive bred specimens of the checkered cardinalfish which…
Sustainable Aquatics captive-bred Marine Bettas and stippled Clingfish trickling out to fish stores now
The marine betta is one of those classic marine aquarium fish that was once the bee’s knees, the pride of a fish keeper’s saltwater aquarium. With changing tastes and a whole new zoo of marine fish now available in the…
Captive bred marine bettas becoming more available
“This is going to blow your socks off!!! We have not hundreds, but thousands of Marine Bettas coming soon to a store near you!” That was the announcement today by Sustainable Aquatics VP of Sales & Marketing Chris Turnier. Sustainable Aquatics has…
