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AMAZONAS Video: Giant Amazon Water Lily
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PlanetXingu FundRazr Campaign To Fund Rio Xingu Scientific Expedition
The Lower Rio Xingu, imminently threatened by the Belo Monte Dam project, is the subject of a grassroots crowd-funding effort to support biodiversity research before it's too late....
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Rising Tide Update - Colurella adriatica
University of Florida's Tropical Aquaculture Lab identifies a promising new first food for marine fish larvae....
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New See-Through Nano Tetra Discovered
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Science Happens: New Caribbean Deepwater Blenny Found
A beautiful new species of blenny has been discovered as unintended bycatch during targeted specimen catching off Curaçao at about 550 ft (157-167 m) depth as a part of the Smithsonian Institution's Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP). ...
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The Betta Son – Part 4
Catch a personal look at Ethan's experience with his new pet bettas....
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CORAL Feature Video: Aaron Belandre's Pico Reef
This 3-gallon (11-L) reef, complete with stony corals and an astonishing array of marine organisms is tracked as it matures and evolves over its three-year life by owner Aaron Belandre, known to members of the Nano-Reef.com forum as El Fab—a bit of a legend in his own time among pico reef enthusiasts....
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Micro Reef Builders in Their Final Century?
Most are smaller than a pinhead and are largely unseen by humans who don't have a magnifying lens in hand, but foraminiferans or "forams" are found in countless numbers on the world's reefs, often forming part of the matrix of sandy substrate that can fuse into hard areas of calcium carbonate....
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The Betta Son – Part 3
Matt and Ethan head on a road trip to pick out Ethan's first Betta....
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101 Nanos Wants Your Photos!
Calling all Freshwater & Reef Aquarists - We Want Your Photos! This is a very rare open call for submissions!...
News & Notes
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PlanetXingu FundRazr Campaign To Fund Rio Xingu Scientific Expedition
The Lower Rio Xingu, imminently threatened by the Belo Monte Dam project, is the subject of a grassroots crowd-funding effort to support biodiversity research before it’s too late.
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Rising Tide Update - Colurella adriatica
University of Florida’s Tropical Aquaculture Lab identifies a promising new first food for marine fish larvae.
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New See-Through Nano Tetra Discovered
“It is a strange little animal, completely transparent with an otherwise unique colour pattern,” says London Natural History Museum fish ichthyologist Dr. Ralf Britz of a tiny new tetra he helped identify and name.
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Science Happens: New Caribbean Deepwater Blenny Found
A beautiful new species of blenny has been discovered as unintended bycatch during targeted specimen catching off Curaçao at about 550 ft (157-167 m) depth as a part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP).
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Micro Reef Builders in Their Final Century?
Most are smaller than a pinhead and are largely unseen by humans who don’t have a magnifying lens in hand, but foraminiferans or “forams” are found in countless numbers on the world’s reefs, often forming part of the matrix of sandy substrate that can fuse into hard areas of calcium carbonate.
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101 Nanos Wants Your Photos!
Calling all Freshwater & Reef Aquarists – We Want Your Photos! This is a very rare open call for submissions!
Marine
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Arrested by the Tang Police: I Refuse to Confess!
For those who haven’t heard the term, it will help to define the phrase “Tang Police.” The best way to identify an officer in this force is by hearing him LOUDLY express his opinions regarding the amount of swimming space required by tangs (or other species).
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Rising Tide Update - Colurella adriatica
University of Florida’s Tropical Aquaculture Lab identifies a promising new first food for marine fish larvae.
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Science Happens: New Caribbean Deepwater Blenny Found
A beautiful new species of blenny has been discovered as unintended bycatch during targeted specimen catching off Curaçao at about 550 ft (157-167 m) depth as a part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP).
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CORAL Feature Video: Aaron Belandre's Pico Reef
This 3-gallon (11-L) reef, complete with stony corals and an astonishing array of marine organisms is tracked as it matures and evolves over its three-year life by owner Aaron Belandre, known to members of the Nano-Reef.com forum as El Fab—a bit of a legend in his own time among pico reef enthusiasts.
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Micro Reef Builders in Their Final Century?
Most are smaller than a pinhead and are largely unseen by humans who don’t have a magnifying lens in hand, but foraminiferans or “forams” are found in countless numbers on the world’s reefs, often forming part of the matrix of sandy substrate that can fuse into hard areas of calcium carbonate.
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101 Nanos Wants Your Photos!
Calling all Freshwater & Reef Aquarists – We Want Your Photos! This is a very rare open call for submissions!
Freshwater
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AMAZONAS Video: Giant Amazon Water Lily
Fascinating look at Victoria regea, the spectacular Giant Amazon Lily, with David Attenborough and additional videos of the Kew Gardens Giant Amazon Lily pond house.
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PlanetXingu FundRazr Campaign To Fund Rio Xingu Scientific Expedition
The Lower Rio Xingu, imminently threatened by the Belo Monte Dam project, is the subject of a grassroots crowd-funding effort to support biodiversity research before it’s too late.
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New See-Through Nano Tetra Discovered
“It is a strange little animal, completely transparent with an otherwise unique colour pattern,” says London Natural History Museum fish ichthyologist Dr. Ralf Britz of a tiny new tetra he helped identify and name.
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The Betta Son – Part 4
Catch a personal look at Ethan’s experience with his new pet bettas.
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The Betta Son – Part 3
Matt and Ethan head on a road trip to pick out Ethan’s first Betta.
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101 Nanos Wants Your Photos!
Calling all Freshwater & Reef Aquarists – We Want Your Photos! This is a very rare open call for submissions!
New Products
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101 Nanos Wants Your Photos!
Calling all Freshwater & Reef Aquarists – We Want Your Photos! This is a very rare open call for submissions!
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Better Late Than Never: Banggai Cardinalfish Book to Debut Soon
We are rapidly closing in on a publication date of a book about which we are very proud.
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Unboxed and Reviewed - Deep Blue Professional Betta Aquariums
An in-depth look Deep Blue Professional’s all-glass Betta Aquariums.
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Ecoxotic Introduces New EcoPico Plant Nano Aquarium
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REEF LIFE Calendar in Time for Holidays
See the whole year in a brilliant slideshow of images. REEF LIFE 2013— The perfect gift for all reef and marine aquarists on your gift list and you get FREE SHIPPING.
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Fish Tank Kings Gets New Season with National Geographic
Nat Geo WILD Channel today announced that the network is renewing its popular series Fish Tank Kings for a second season.
Eric says:
Hello, I have a powder blue tang and a yellow tang housed in a 120 gallon tank for over a year . Both are healthy, along with other smler fishes. Yellow tangs are territorial too...this article is informative and I agree with itReef To Rainforest says:
Who will watch the watchmen? Comment received from Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D. Another unfortunate aspect of this whole thing is the concept of "necessary swimming space." There are many problems with such an idea, particularly with those territorial fish that may require a large home range (large Caribbean Angelfish, perhaps Centropyge species as well and some butterfly fishes). These animals, much like some terrestrial carnivores, such as wolves, seem to patrol a large area that they know well (can identify landmarks, etc.). Such fish may definitely “need” a large surface area for normal behavior. This type of space requirement is far different from that of a non-territorial foraging fish such as a Yellow Tang – and actually, probably more necessary for those fish. Nevertheless, from the aspect of a scientist trying to investigate what is "necessary" and just "what" constitutes “swimming space” is damn near impossible to work with. It HAS to be defined separately for each fish species - and perhaps each life stage and gender of each fish species. Obviously what constitutes acceptable and useful space for a bottom-hugging far-ranging grazing/foraging fish will be very different from useful space for a primarily coprophagic clownfish fish that never ventures more than 2 or 3 meters from its anemone. Some of the things that must be considered in the evaluation of space include surface roughness, environmental heterogeneity, the amount of visual "openness" (to see potential predators), whether or not the space is found over an acceptable substrate or not, ad infinitum et nauseum. In the words of a highly quantitative microbiologist I once knew, "The whole thing is too 'touchy-feely' for me." It can't be defined, measured, or usefully discussed in the context of most aquarium fish, and certainly not tangs. At the very least, as there actually is with some of the Chaetodontids, there must be a basis of quantitative observational ecology before such a discussion has meaning. In other words, it is just "made for forum misuse and bad behavior." Without the forum moderators stomping this behavior out, it will continue. At some forums, such behavior was and will be tacitly encouraged by the responses of the moderators who should shut it down. But, obviously the TP can't police themselves... so we have the question raised by Plato, and rephrased by the Roman poet Juvenal, “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” – which can be paraphrased as, “Who will watch the watchmen, (or who will police the police?”).New "see-through" Tetra says:
[...] "see-through" Tetra New See-Through Nano Tetra Discovered Attached [...]PlanetXingu FundRazr Campaign To Fund Rio Xingu Scientific E says:
[...] The funds raised will go to Mark Sabaj Pérez, PhD, who will be responsible for distributing funds to additional team members. Dr. Pérez is the Collection Manager of Fishes at The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pérez is also a contributor to AMAZONAS magazine, a recent contribution being his March 2013 update on the Belo Monte Dam. [...]PlanetXingu FundRazr Campaign To Fund Rio Xingu Scientific E says:
[...] website Kickstarter to successfully launch the Banggai Rescue research and book project in 2012 (Banggai Cardinalfish book coming soon!), and we’ve notice many other aquarium-related efforts show up since then. PlanetXingu, lead [...]Rising Tide Update - Colurella adriatica says:
[...] Reading: For more on the efforts to breed Surgeonfish and Tangs in captivity, see the forthcoming July/August 2013 Issue of CORAL Magazine for an in-depth look by Dr. [...]