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ESA Works for Marine Mammals and Sea Turtle
A recently written article analyzes the significant success of the Endangered Species Act by noting the recovery of numerous populations of marine mammals and sea turtles....
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VIDEO: Octopus Mating at the Secret Home Lab
The Lesser Pacific Striped Octopus, Octopus chierchiae, might make ideal captive-bred cephalopod pets according to biologist Richard Ross, but probably only after concerns regarding whether they are venomous are investigated first!...
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CORAL Excerpt: The Butterfly Chronicles, Part 2
One aquarist’s evolving views on keeping the “Impossible Corallivores," Part 2...
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VIDEOS - Corallivorous Butterflyfishes Eating Everything Except Coral
There are now dozens of videos depicting corallivorous butterflyfishes readily consuming all manner of aquarium food...in fact everything except living coral, in home aquariums....
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Biota Announces New Hawaiian Aquaculture Facility
Biota's marine ornamental aquaculture capacity will increase with a new facility established on the Hawaiian island of Oahu....
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CORAL Excerpt - The "Acan Lord" Interview
Matt Pedersen talks with Micromussa professional fans Kris Cline and Jeffrey Slemp about the corals formerly known as "Acan Lords"....
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Insect Apocalypse
This article scares the living hell out of me....
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CORAL Magazine New Issue “REEF TRIGGERS” Inside Look
A preview of articles and images in the new issue of CORAL, The Reef & Marine Aquarium Magazine, January/February 2019....
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New Deepwater Lipogramma Discovered
Using a small, manned submersibles capable of collecting small fishes, a team of scientists working off Roatan, Honduras, has found and identified an exceptionally beautiful basslet in what they call a "rariphotic zone," ...
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Coral Health Tied to Invisible Microbiomes
Just like the bacteria within our gut help us digest food and protect us from pathogens, the normal bacteria associated with corals can also help them process nutrients and help protect them against disease...
Marine
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ESA Works for Marine Mammals and Sea Turtle
A recently written article analyzes the significant success of the Endangered Species Act by noting the recovery of numerous populations of marine mammals and sea turtles.
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VIDEO: Octopus Mating at the Secret Home Lab
The Lesser Pacific Striped Octopus, Octopus chierchiae, might make ideal captive-bred cephalopod pets according to biologist Richard Ross, but probably only after concerns regarding whether they are venomous are investigated first!
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CORAL Excerpt: The Butterfly Chronicles, Part 2
One aquarist’s evolving views on keeping the “Impossible Corallivores,” Part 2
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VIDEOS - Corallivorous Butterflyfishes Eating Everything Except Coral
There are now dozens of videos depicting corallivorous butterflyfishes readily consuming all manner of aquarium food…in fact everything except living coral, in home aquariums.
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Biota Announces New Hawaiian Aquaculture Facility
Biota’s marine ornamental aquaculture capacity will increase with a new facility established on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
Freshwater
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VIDEO: Hong Kong's Goldfish Street and $250 Gem Tang
Inappropriate Reefer takes the viewer on a whirlwind tour of Hong Kong’s astonishing aquarium bazaar, Goldfish Street, which is nothing like the local fish shop most of us know and love.
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AMAZONAS Magazine Table of Contents January/February 2019
Species Hotspot: Gabon, AMAZONAS Magazine Volume 8, Number 1
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Plant Spotlight: "Mermaid's Tail", Proserpinaca palustris
Although hobbyists have known about this plant for some time, it has only been commercially available to the international community in recent years.
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Jack Wattley, Discus King, Passes Away at 95
The Discus community has lost one of its true pioneers with the passing of Jack Wattley in early October, 2018.
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New Hikari Bio-Pure® Lake Okanagan Freshwater Mysis Shrimp
These freshwater mysis shrimp, harvested from the glacier-fed waters of Lake Okanagan make them ideal for most larger marine and freshwater fish.
New Products
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TUNZE Nano Reef LED
A product may be “eco” – that is, economical, ecological, good value and at the same time stylish and “chic”: TUNZE releases new Eco Chic Reef LED for nano aquariums
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New Red Sea REEFER Skimmers
A built-in neck cleaner, a foam viewing port, and multiple installation configurations are some of the key features of this new, super-quiet protein skimmer design from Red Sea.
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New Hikari Bio-Pure® Lake Okanagan Freshwater Mysis Shrimp
These freshwater mysis shrimp, harvested from the glacier-fed waters of Lake Okanagan make them ideal for most larger marine and freshwater fish.
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ORA's Foray into More Captive-Bred Damsels
ORA claims two species firsts in early 2018, producing desireable captive-bred damselfish species suitable for many home aquariums.
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Biota's Hybrid Tridacna "Mimosa" Clams
The new Mimosa Clam from Biota Aquariums is a suspected hybrid, displaying traits of both Tridacna maxima and Tridacna squamosa.
News & Notes
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ESA Works for Marine Mammals and Sea Turtle
A recently written article analyzes the significant success of the Endangered Species Act by noting the recovery of numerous populations of marine mammals and sea turtles.
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Insect Apocalypse
This article scares the living hell out of me.
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No End in Sight to Indonesia's Stoppage of Coral Exports
Despite many statements and rumors that problems had been resolved and corals exports should have already resumed, Indonesia’s coral exports remain effectively shuttered.
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Nat Geo Summary of Operation Rock Bottom
Nat Geo details the findings an ongoing 8-year extensive investigation by US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) which plumbs the depths of the US-based marine aquarium livestock trade…
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MASNA donates $2,500 to A.D.E. Project
With MASNA’s earnings from raffle contributions at MACNA 2018 for the grand prize Fiji Trip drawing, MASNA is donating $2,500 to the A.D.E. Project.
Mark Schreffler says:
Great article Matt!Graham Palmer says:
Tanne now has acquired a Baby Chaetodon Semilarvatus. Also to mention that the Chaetodon larvatus now greedily devours masstick and catches Mysis shrimp that he snatches from the water column just like all the other fish in this reef tank. there is no visible damage to corals in this reef from the corallivore butterflyfish inhabiting this reef. interesting to note the same seems to be the case on natural coral reefs with huge butterflyfish populations. I believe this whole thing has been overblown by aquarist living in the United States where reef tanks are over populated by surgeonfish and there are no pomacanthids or chaetodontids to be seen except on an actual coral reef in the wild. everyone took this word that these butterflyfish were impossible to keep. nobody in America experimented or tried but in Asia they did and succeeded.upon seeing these fish eat a captive diet American aquarist almost seem offended to see their conventional wisdom challenged and proven wrong. They have difficulty accepting that decades of conventional wisdom was factually incorrect. Sustainable aquatics also wrote a piece on so called obligate corallivore butterflyfish that they did not consider these fish to be obligate corallivore at all based on their experience. Fish like C. larvatus have migrated from the Red Sea through the Suez canal to the Mediterranean were there are no Stoney corals growing and are thriving there, which means they’ve found an alternative food source there. This is evidence of their adaptability. I hope to see the day when these special group of Butterflyfish are captively bred as this door has been opened up with successful captive reproduction of the likes of the millet seed butterfly and the Caribbean reef butterflyfish. Broodstocks can be set up and the work begun.Visit says:
im never succes to keep this fish.. always dead. sadmigg belz says:
he is legend. My idolSanta Monica Filtration says:
Those triggers are indeed amazing.Tom Ashton says:
I think the use of Lanthanum Chloride is very useful in binding Phosphates for removal but one thing must be taken in consideration. Zebramosa Tangs for some reason react negatively to Lanthanum. They will show signs of stress with rapid respiration which can result in death if used with too high of a doseage