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When elegance, performance and simplicity meet: The Vertex Omega 150
Protein skimmers today come in all shapes and sizes. Standard cone skimmers, oval skimmers, column skimmers, you name it. Skimming has changed a lot over-time. I remember the days when a skimmer was a...
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Deepwater Pigments of The Red Sea
Together with an international team of researchers, divers from the University of Southampton, UK, Tel Aviv University and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences (IUI), Israel have found a...
View ArticleGreat White Shark Saved on Cape Cod Beach
This amazing video shows a great white shark being rescued after stranding itself on a beach. In light of the recent shark attacks off the North Carolina coast, it is heartening to see people rally to...
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Jean-Michel Cousteau Tweets: #SaveTheSharks
It’s #SharkAwarenessDay! Do you think you know your shark trivia? Jean-Michel Cousteau invites you to try the daily riddles and #SavetheSharks.… More: The post Jean-Michel Cousteau Tweets:...
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Brookfield Zoo Closes Stingray Tank After 54 Rays Die
The Brookfield Zoo, in Brookfield, Illinois,. has sadly closed it’s Stingray Bay Exhibit for this season, after 54 Stingrays died in the tank on this past Friday. Oxygen levels in the water tank...
View ArticleBottle-nose Dolphin Pod
Hi gang, well we made it through one very busy day yesterday with three sub dives and 12 collage kids from Bonaire, all doing some kind of studies in marine biology. Our ocean is currently super dirty...
View ArticleReview: Sicce X Stream E Compact Wave Pump
If you’ve been following the blog you may have noticed our recent unboxing review of Sicce’s new X Stream wave pump. In that piece, we examined the theoretical performance of the unit, it’s key...
View Article5 Traits of a “Beginner” Marine Fish
Captive-bred Banggai Cardinalfish are a great example of a beginner fishWhat exactly does it mean when we say that a marine fish is “good for beginners”? After all, it’s not like certain fish species...
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Have morals left the building?
Richard Ross and Nathan Hill sat down to discuss the morality of the marine aquarium hobby. I imagine there were aquarists who wondered why any hobby needs “moral justification.” I often say that...
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Reef Kids
handprint fish naturalearthpaint Ah, summer! The season when kids can do really messy art projects (like this cool hand- and footprint ocean scene) OUTSIDE and get hosed off before coming back in....
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Jupiter, Florida Man Cited For Keeping Loggerhead Sea Turtles In Home Aquarium
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission cited a Jupiter, Florida man for keeping two Loggerhead Sea Turtles in his home aquarium. The man stated he found the turtles in his canal and put them in his...
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A Bag That’s GOOD for the Ocean
The Ocean Cleanup was founded in 2013 in the Netherlands by Boyan Slat, and is now the world’s largest cleanup initiatives. Approximately 100 volunteer scientists and engineers have contributed to...
View ArticleThe Pyramid Butterflyfish: A Hardy, Reef-Safe Chaetodontid
Pyramid Butterflyfish (Hemitaurichthys polylepis)While many of the butterflyfishes are challenging—if not outright impossible—to maintain in captivity for one reason or another, there are various...
View ArticleSharks swarming in Britain
When you think of a large school of sharks swimming close to shore Britain is not the first place that typically comes to mind. But, this week, a school of dozens of Starry Smooth-Hound Sharks...
View ArticleNew Goby Named For Smithsonian Sub
Publishing their study in the open-access journal ZooKeys, Drs Carole Baldwin and Ross Robertson from the Smithsonian Institution recently described a new species of Goby from the mesophotic zone, some...
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Newsday at the Long Island Aquarium
Credit: Newsday/ Thomas A. Ferrara Joe Yaiullo and his world-renowned aquarium and staff got to play host to Newsday’s Jimin Kim this week, and provided the reporter and his photographer, Thomas A....
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The Isopod From Hell
Picture of 9 days post hatch larva with Cirolanid isopod attached Today while checking up on one of my larval rearing tanks, I spotted something unusual. At first, I thought that one of the larvae had...
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Astreopora montiporina the backstory
The story of my Astreopora montiporina colony is an interesting one. If you’re not familiar with this coral don’t worry, it is not commonly known or collected; it was named as a new species in 2011....
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An Overview of Marine Fungi and Their Ecological Roles
A Labyrinthula-infected eelgrass frond. Sometimes regarded as rare or insignificant, marine fungi are both phylogenetically and ecologically diverse. Like all fungi, marine fungi are heterotrophic....
View ArticleAvoid These 5 Live Rock Aquascaping Pitfalls
Doing your aquascaping correctly from the beginning will help avoid hassles in the futureYour long-anticipated live rock shipment has finally arrived at your doorstep, and you can’t wait to get it in...
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