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Ocean Swipe 360 Kickstarter Campaign Launched
“I have to say that your new product has me more excited than any product release in the 12 years I’ve been in the industry.” This was the opening sentence of the first email I sent to the Ocean Swipe...
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Terelabrus dewapyle: A new species of deepwater labrid from the Western...
The new species Terelabrus dewapyle. Photo credit: A-C – Fukui & Motomura. D-F – K. Nishiyama. The genus Terelabrus was first erected in 1998 based on an unknown labrid collected at 100m in...
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Some new offerings from Two Little Fishies, and the infamous Julian Sprung
Julian Sprung is one of reef keeping’s great innovators. If you’ve ever met Julian, he’s a soft-spoken guy and I imagine the wheels inside his head are always grinding away. It was Julian Sprung, along...
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Mall Of America Aquarium Fixes Turtle’s ‘Bubble Butt’
‘Bubble butt’, although a phrase not ordinarily associated with marine life, is a syndrome that affects turtles. ‘Bubble butt’ occurs when turtles get an air pocket under their shell, causing too much...
View ArticleSome Subtle Signs that a Fish is Sick
I’ve kept multiple copperband butterflyfish (Chelmon rostratus) in my reef over the yearsMost marine aquarium hobbyists learn quickly to identify common warning signs of ill health in fish—white spots,...
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Three Eyed Fish in Gowanus Canal?
The Gowanus Canal is certainly not a canal you would want to step foot in. The 1.8 mile canal is located in Brooklyn, New York. Once a busy transportation gateway, it is now recognized as one of the...
View ArticleA Fishy Riddle to end the Week…
…think this one through before you speak! But don’t overthink it, I’m not very rare. And when I’m revealed, you’ll find the hints to be fair… “tempestually scribbled, body so sleek, my fins are a...
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The Reef Damsel’s Distress Call
Researchers at James Cook University in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) have uncovered an interesting feature of the Damsel reef fish family. We watch our fish dart in...
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4 New Deep Cold Water Reefs Discovered in the Atlantic
Researchers from Plymouth, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), and the National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway) have recently confirmed 4 new reefs located...
View ArticleSometimes You Need to Overfeed Your Fish
Overfeeding is sometimes necessary to entice a finicky fish to eat, especially if they have little nutritional reserve to begin with, such as butterflyfishYou’ve heard time and again, here at Saltwater...
View ArticleReef Threads Podcast #253
Hawaii Pacific University grad students Aurora Burgess, and our guests this week, Emma Forbes and Erin Pereira-Davison (l-r) This week we talk about yellow tang breeding with Emma Forbes and Erin...
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Predicting the Vulnerability of Reefs to Climate Change
Data collected from the Reef Life Survey has allowed researchers from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton to measure the thermal-range tolerance of 2,695 shallow reef fish and 1225...
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“Operation Noah’s Ark” Attempts To Save Fish From Brazil River
On November 5, 2015, two dams holding tons of mining waste and toxic mud containing minerals including iron, aluminum, manganese and mercury, collapsed. The mining company Samarco was in responsible...
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Lubricogobius nanus: one fish, two fish, yellow fish, new fish
A paratype of Lubricigobius nanus, from Alotou, Papua New Guinea. Credit: Gerry Allen The shallow marine waters around New Guinea just got a little more diverse with the recent description of a new...
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Coral Fat Storage Plays Big Role in Bleaching Recovery
Researchers from Ohio State University have expanded upon earlier research that concluded corals best suited for recovering after a bleaching event harbor large storages of fat in their zooxanthellae...
View ArticleTridacna derasa: A Good Excuse to Clam Up!
The smooth giant clam (Tridacna derasa)Of all the Tridacna spp. clams available to hobbyists, perhaps the hardiest and easiest to maintain of them all is Tridacna derasa, the so-called smooth giant...
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Assessing the Esthetic Beauty of Coral Reefs
As active owners of captive reef environments we naturally appeal to the brightest coral, or most visually stunning morphologies of imported specimens, but for the first time ever scientists from San...
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P. cylindrica Found to Self-Regulate PH in Calcifying Fluids
Researchers from the University of Western Australia (Coral CoE) and the University of Queensland have found that coral colonies of Parapersis cylindrica found in the Heron Island lagoon on the Great...
View ArticleTretocidaris bartletti (A. Agassiz), Deep Sea Urchins
Hi friends, I have a rare, very large sea urchin called a Tretocidaris bartletti (A. Agassiz) for you all today that was found this year by the Smithsonian scientists on the little island of Klein...
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Rare Rhinopias species: Part 1
R. cf xenops in Japan. Credit: atopapa Some of the most colorful and charismatic fishes encountered in aquariums can be found in the scorpionfish genus Rhinopias. These well-camouflaged ambush...
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