This excited Cirrhilabrus naokoae is a nuptial displaying male who is showing the peak of coloration for this species. This video produced by Kevin Kohen of LiveAquaria filmed this male Naoko’s fairy wrasse in his own display aquarium trying his…
Ecotech Marine Radion XR30w LED video
[vimeo width=”680″ height=”450″]http://vimeo.com/29002212[/vimeo] This Radion XR30w video is an intimate look at the hotly anticipated new LED light from Ecotech Marine. The video of the Radion XR30w demonstrates all of the major features of the Ecotech Marine LED light: 34…
Tanked – can we have just a little more information?
This is a video of a big aquarium (not connected with ATM or Tanked) – doesn’t a little information about how it’s run and how the animals are cared for make it more exciting? Like many of us, I have…
Lophelia.org is THE source for everything about deep water corals, David Attenborough approved
As hard core reef hobbyist, we are also very much fascinated with the ecology and biology and the conservation of any marine creature, and deep water corals are no exception. It’s been quite a long time since we first shared…
Xyrichthys pentadactylus, just one of the many Razor fishes out there
Xyrichthys pentadactylus is one of many species of razor fish, or more commonly known as razor wrasse. Razor wrasses are adapted to life on open sandy reefs, and all possess highly compressed bodies which look paper thin from the front,…
Elkhorn coral video shows what the ‘palmata zone’ used to look like
Oh Acropora palmata, the iconic elkhorn coral, how we love to gaze on thee! Once widespread and ecologically paramount in the Caribbean Sea, the elkhorn coral used to be so abundant that there were reef zones named after it. Nowadays…
Raja Ampat Indonesia is a non-photosynthetic coral heaven
This video of Raja Ampat is pure NPS Heaven. . . if you can ignore the soundtrack. Cirque du Soleil music isn’t the ideal tribute to this great video of Eastern Indonesian aposymbiotic corals. But taste aside, thanks to the…
Protoanguilla palau – New ‘Living Fossil’ eel named and filmed
Protoanguilla palau is a new living fossil eel recently described from discoveries in Palau. Masaki Miya, Jiro Sakaue, and G David Johnson were three scientist who discovered this special eels that said to be a new ‘living fossil’ as it…
Maldives snorkeling video at Ari Atoll is a field of corals growing at a very high density
[youtube width=”680″ height=”420″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXxjRxrXDE0[/youtube] We’ve seen our share of average snorkeling videos from coral reefs but none featured such a high density of stony corals at such a shallow depth. This video made by vivaldi at Ari Atoll in the Maldives…
Tunze video response challenges the conclusions, not the data, of the propeller pump study
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLkW1-6HbQk[/youtube] Make no mistake about it, the video uploaded hours ago by Tunze Gmbh is a direct response to the results of the propeller pump study published a couple weeks back. The nearly ten minute long video first…
