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With Death Comes a New Lease on Life: Fish Fixing, Preservation and Storage
A freshly dead and formalin fixed fish. Photo credit: Lemon TYK. While studies and surveys conducted on piscine organisms often involve in situ research on living specimens, a great deal of it occur...
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The Biogeography and Evolution of Meiacanthus: Part 6
M. vittatus, luteus, abruptus, vicinus & geminatus This quintumvirate of West Pacific fishes is easily recognized by the single (or double) stripe running along the length of the body and the...
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The Ways Fish Communicate
This is a very interesting article discussing the ways fish communicate and the change in how science has viewed this communication over time. Communication is an amazing thing, be it in humans or...
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Tosana niwae – Queen of the benthic silt
Tosana niwae, a male and female pair in Nishihama beach, Okinawa, 40m. Photo credit: Kiss2Sea. The anthiines of the Indo-Pacific are home to numerous genera, most of them noted for their exuberance...
View ArticleReef Threads Podcast #256
Visit the Coral Fever website at coralfever.com This week’s topics are a most-unusual combination of reef aquariums and drag racing. Our guests this week are Seth and Angelle Drago, owners of Coral...
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The Biogeography and Evolution of Meiacanthus: Part 7
M. crinitus, lineatus & naevius These three species share much in common with M. abditus, including a propensity for shallow-water coastal reefs. Were it not for their common presence in Melanesia,...
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Science And Elbow Grease Keep National Aquarium Clean
Working in a public aquarium for ten years myself, I know first hand the trials and tribulations that staffers go through in keeping the tanks spotless. It is certainly not as easy as it looks and...
View ArticleThe Best Beginner Large-Polyp Stony Corals
There are a number of beginner-friendly LPS coral speciesThroughout my years as an aquarium enthusiast, I have followed all the advice from all the books I could get my hands on since there were no...
View ArticleSleeper Gobies: Genus Valenciennea
Valenciennea bella – Photo by Kevin Kohen Valenciennea is a genus of small, bottom-dwelling fish from the family Gobiidae. They can be found sifting sandy bottoms, along the edges of coral reefs and...
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A first look at “Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough”
Sir David Attenborough in situ. Credit: Atlantic Productions If you’re anything like me, you’ve been counting the days until the BBC broadcasts its upcoming nature documentary on the Great Barrier...
View ArticleCombo Joe’s Retina Blaster & Fukushima Acan
Combo Joe’s Retina Blaster and Fukushima Acan This weeks Featured Coral of the Week comes to us from one of our sponsors, Joe Knows Reefs. As featured above, Combo Joe’s Retina Blaster and Fukushima...
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A furry/feathered/scaled/slimy Friend for the Holidays
Photo: BlairSnow I have finally found a present that I don’t need to reuse, reduce or recycle! It’s the “in” thing to...
View ArticleIn Praise of Fish Oil
Fish oil is an important part of Paul B’s fish feeding regimenHobby pioneer Paul “Paul B” Baldassano has some strong opinions on what types of foods are best for fish, formed over his many decades of...
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Longest Floating Structure In History Will Clean Up Ocean
In 2016, the ‘longest floating structure in history’ known as the ‘ocean cleanup’ will be placed in the ocean, off the coast of Japan. The ‘Ocean Cleanup’ was founded by 20 year old founder and CEO...
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Vancouver Aquarium Funded To Study Rare Glass Sponge Reefs
While employed at the Vancouver Aquarium, I had the great honor of working under Dr. Jeffrey Marliave for seven years. Dr. Marliave is the Vice President of the aquarium and has been with the...
View ArticleA Look at Sandsifting Gobie: genus Istigobious
In our last article, A Closer Look At Sleeper Gobies, Genus Valenciennea, we covered the diet, care and behavior of the 15 recognized species of Valenciennea gobies. Today we look at another genus of...
View ArticleJuvenile Smooth Trunkfish
Good morning from the windiest place on Earth! Like the rest of the planet our weather is messed up and not normal! We should be having rain every day but instead it’s been crazy windy with very...
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Pseudochromis colei and Cypho zaps, two rare dottybacks from the Philippine...
A large male Pseudochromis colei. This represents the first known individual since its redescription in 2012, and doubles up as the first individual offered to the aquarium trade. Photo credit: Lemon...
View ArticleThe ACE 170 AIMBioSys System From Cayuga Aquatics
Aquarium maintenance companies are often asked to set up up a fully functional reef aquarium as quickly as possible. You know, just like they do on those reality TV shows. Well, entertaining TV aside,...
View ArticleSigns You May Need to Lower Your Reef Tank’s Bioload
The maximum level of acceptable bioload is unique to each system based on a variety of factorsThe bioload in a reef aquarium increases through both the acquisition of new specimens as well as the...
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