Every day we scroll through some of the 300,000 reef-related posts and videos carrying our hashtag on Instagram, but this Japanese aquarium by @ancoliecoral caught our attention for all the right reasons. At 160x160x70cm/63”x63”x28” and holding 1792 liters/473 gallons this…
Poetry in motion, Chaetodon daedalma in notion
A leather bodice, of gunmetal grey, Of polished iron, for which I overlay. Woven in chains, I shine like mercury, A knight I am not, of the 17th century.
Japanese aquarium figurines
Leave it to the Japanese to fetishize all things in the natural world, not the least of which are aquatic animals, through the fine art of collectible figurines. If keeping an aquarium is too much time, money or hassle, a…
Armitage Angelfish and Juvenile wrought iron butterflyfish co-star in the house of Fins SPLASH event
Armitage angelfish and baby wrought iron butterflyfish may not be as rare as the luscious neon hogfish, but they still shared the rare fish spotlight at last weekend’s SPLASH event at House of Fins, in Greenwich CT. They may not…
Hundreds of Chaetodon daedalma form an awesome wrought iron ball
We might think of some reef fish as being rare but this video of a huge school of wrought iron butterflyfish shows how locally common some fish species can be. While most aquarist would be content to see even one…
LiveAquaria’s show sized wrought iron butterflyfish
Chaetodon daedalma has been and always will be one of the most striking and unique butterflyfish in the world. This Japanese endemic grows very large, it has striking presence in the aquarium, they have a vigorous appetite and a personality…
