We’ve been following the saga of Casper the White Tang for nearly six years now. As a long time resident at Worldwide Corals, Casper has truly grown into the team and the company’s mascot and spirit animal, and it’s always a…
The speciation, biogeography and hybridization of Zebrasoma
The family Acanthuridae boasts of charismatic, charming and iconic reef fishes that are immediately recognizable both in the field and in the trade. All eighty or so species spanning the six various genera have a single unifying trait, and that is…
New Tuamotu reef fish exports could increase supply of west Pacific species
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqOTUmpB2og[/youtube] It was an awesome day when we began seeing Tuamotu Maxima clams, but we could hardly contain ourselves when we learned from Sea Dwelling Creatures that they would begin receiving fish exported from this far flung region…
World Wide Corals adds rare xanthic yellow tang and melanistic black tang to its collection of mutants
Move over Casper the white tang because World Wide Corals has just one upped you with the trump card of Zebrasoma mutants: a xanthic yellow tang and a melanistic black tang. Like the amelanistic white tang before them, the xanthic…
Black Tang Video shows what a perfect quality specimen looks like
[youtube width=”670″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1-YLciao2M[/youtube] The black tang, Zebrasoma rostratum, is not an extremely rare fish here in the United States, but there’s a perfectly good reason why we haven’t bothered to shoot a video of one so far. Most captive aquarium…
