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Let's Focus on Fish: Omega Sea's 2020 Photo Contest
The 10th Annual Omega One Photo Contest is officially open for entries. Thirteen lucky winners will receive a coveted spot in the glossy, globally distributed Omega One® Calendar – PLUS free fish food for an entire year! So start snapping, the contest closes October 1st, 2020....
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VIDEOS: Monterey Bay Brings the Aquarium to You
While nothing can replace the experience of being there, California's Monterey Bay Aquarium is bringing the auqarium to you this year, producing a wide a range of long-format videos suitable to work or relax to....
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New Freeze-Dried Cyclops from San Francisco Bay Brands
Freeze-Dried Cyclops are an all-natural food for small fish, baby fish, and reef aquariums. They are freeze-dried to naturally preserve their nutritional value and are just as nutritious as live but do not require cultivation or refrigeration....
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Announcing the 2020 AGA International Aquascaping Contest
The 20th Annual AGA International Aquascaping Contest has a revised schedule and opens for entries in mid-August, 2020! Last year's contest saw over 600 entries in 10 categories....
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Introducing the New ORA Chalk Bass
ORA's latest introduction is a captive-bred Chalk Bass, Serranus tortugarum, one of many more difficult to produce pelagic spawning marine fishes....
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New Extra Large Formula 1 & 2 Pellets from Ocean Nutrition
Building on the established Formula One and Formal Two pelleted aquarium food line for marine aquarium fishes, Ocean Nutrition has introduced new extra-large formulations for use with some of the largest marine fish aquarists may be keeping....
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Astonishing New Reef Video from Dr. Bruce Carlson
Dr. Bruce Carlson gives a first look at a new imaging method that may prove extremely valuable in tracking the health of coral reefs....
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El Niño Made Me Stronger: Eastern Pacific Corals Showing Surprising Heat Tolerance
University of Georgia and international team find that some stony corals have adapted to rising water temperatures after decades of El Niño events...
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AMAZONAS Magazine Table of Contents September/October 2020
MEXICO – Depths of Diversity, AMAZONAS Magazine Volume 9, Number 5...
Marine
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Mystery Coral: Can you identify it?
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Let's Focus on Fish: Omega Sea's 2020 Photo Contest
The 10th Annual Omega One Photo Contest is officially open for entries. Thirteen lucky winners will receive a coveted spot in the glossy, globally distributed Omega One® Calendar – PLUS free fish food for an entire year! So start snapping, the contest closes October 1st, 2020.
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VIDEOS: Monterey Bay Brings the Aquarium to You
While nothing can replace the experience of being there, California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium is bringing the auqarium to you this year, producing a wide a range of long-format videos suitable to work or relax to.
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Introducing the New ORA Chalk Bass
ORA’s latest introduction is a captive-bred Chalk Bass, Serranus tortugarum, one of many more difficult to produce pelagic spawning marine fishes.
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New Extra Large Formula 1 & 2 Pellets from Ocean Nutrition
Building on the established Formula One and Formal Two pelleted aquarium food line for marine aquarium fishes, Ocean Nutrition has introduced new extra-large formulations for use with some of the largest marine fish aquarists may be keeping.
Freshwater
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Let's Focus on Fish: Omega Sea's 2020 Photo Contest
The 10th Annual Omega One Photo Contest is officially open for entries. Thirteen lucky winners will receive a coveted spot in the glossy, globally distributed Omega One® Calendar – PLUS free fish food for an entire year! So start snapping, the contest closes October 1st, 2020.
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Announcing the 2020 AGA International Aquascaping Contest
The 20th Annual AGA International Aquascaping Contest has a revised schedule and opens for entries in mid-August, 2020! Last year’s contest saw over 600 entries in 10 categories.
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AMAZONAS Magazine Table of Contents September/October 2020
MEXICO – Depths of Diversity, AMAZONAS Magazine Volume 9, Number 5
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Plant Spotlight: Taxiphyllum sp. 'Flame'
This bright green creeping moss grows in a thick carpet with long, curly vertical growth which clumps to form a bushy flame-like shape. Easy to care for, Flame Moss creeps outward, horizontally, covering all surfaces on the plane, which allows for creative placement in aquascaping!
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In The Trade: Haplochromis thereuterion
Haplochromis thereuterion is only sporadically available in the trade. Their original niche in the Lake was similar to Tanganyikan Cyprichromis, living high in the water column and feeding on zooplankton.
New Products
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Introducing the New ORA Chalk Bass
ORA’s latest introduction is a captive-bred Chalk Bass, Serranus tortugarum, one of many more difficult to produce pelagic spawning marine fishes.
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New Extra Large Formula 1 & 2 Pellets from Ocean Nutrition
Building on the established Formula One and Formal Two pelleted aquarium food line for marine aquarium fishes, Ocean Nutrition has introduced new extra-large formulations for use with some of the largest marine fish aquarists may be keeping.
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A Squall Line of New Longfin & Storm Clownfish
Sea & Reef Aquaculture has released several new types of designer clownfish in the first half of 2020, proving that not even a pandemic will slow down the pace of marine ornamental aquaculture progress.
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Hanna's New pH Checker for Marine Aquariums
Hanna Instrument’s new HI780 Checker®HC marine pH colorimeter is a simple, accurate, and cost-effective way to measure pH in saltwater.
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New Waterbox Peninsula Mini All-In-One Aquarium
Starphire Ultra-Clear™ Glass and a full glass rear wall and overflow are just some of the features of the new Waterbox Peninsula Mini all-in-one aquariums for freshwater and saltwater applications.
News & Notes
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Let's Focus on Fish: Omega Sea's 2020 Photo Contest
The 10th Annual Omega One Photo Contest is officially open for entries. Thirteen lucky winners will receive a coveted spot in the glossy, globally distributed Omega One® Calendar – PLUS free fish food for an entire year! So start snapping, the contest closes October 1st, 2020.
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"Blue Center" Training Program to Foster Coral Reef Restoration Projects
Coral Guardian offers a training program, the Blue Center, dedicated to any project leader wishing to develop their own coral reef restoration project around the world.
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MACNA 2020: Phoenix Rising, a Three-Day Online Webinar!
Following the cancellation of the on-location MACNA 2020 in Pheonix, Arizona, the annual event is reborn as an affordable three-day online webinar.
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Confirmed: Petco to Sell LiveAquaria to Third Party
Celebrating its 20th anniversary during July 2020, LiveAquaria is about to enter a new chapter as parent company Petco announces a transition to new ownership for the aquarium livestock company.
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Call For Support from Hawaiian Fisherman and Marine Fish Wholesaler
The livelihoods of a vast population of business owners large and small, and the businesses and hobbyists that depend on them, are on the precipice of extinction. Unless you want to see the Hawaii aquarium fishery closed for good, you need to take action!
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Looking for Tophat for my brackish 55g tank. Are you aware of any available?kay says:
Amazing!great informationDr. Reza Farrokh says:
MessageMarty says:
Sumer, Thank you for your well written and comprehensive article. I enjoyed it very much and it is not too long at all. I have kept bettas for about 60 years. My first pair spawned in a one gallon glass pickle jar, only one male survived to maturity. You wrote that your water is less than 10 TDS. I assume you start with RO/DI water. What and how much do you add to get to 10 TDS? In the egg exchange portion of the video, the male's right operculum appears to be slightly malformed (too short). Is there a malformation or just a camera angle? I have seen 2 males with a malformed operculum. Too many inbred fish? I've been giving the 2-3 day swallowing problem some thought. This 2-3 day or sometimes 5-7 day period from spawning to swallowing is consistently seen by many people trying to raise Macs. It can't be that everyone startles their holding males on day 2 or day 5 and that makes them swallow the eggs. It seems to me that this behavior may be an instinctive response to non viable eggs. Somehow the male fish gets a signal (probably chemical) from the "rotting eggs" and that triggers the swallowing. The male swallows the eggs rather than spits them in order to conserve energy. Fish sperm motility (swimming speed and duration) is strongly affected by the make up of the water, particularly the osmolarity. So TDS, or a very narrow range, may be THE factor that determines whether the sperm fertilizes the eggs and whether he swallows. Currently, I have 16 adult Macs. I keep the pH at 5.5-5.8, the TDS less than 30 ppm. In one 10 gallon tank there are 2 males and 1 female. The males chased each other at first. Now they watch each other, but there has been no damage to either. The female previously spawned with each of the 2 males in a 50+ gallon grow-out tank. I put them together hoping the female would spawn with each male in an alternating pattern. But today she spawned with both males, one after the other. it took about 7 hours. Both males are holding now. The female is resting. What do you feed fry? I feed live BBS, and very finely ground Betta Bug Bites. Then switch to frozen Daphnia, fruit flies and white worms. MartySumer Tiwari says:
Joseph, I too have heard that it can be done but have never done it myself or seen anyone else do it. Since the males are known to eat the whole brood, I would suspect that it'd be very hard to strip the male of the fry.The male might just swallow the whole brood when the keeper would approach to catch the male. Do you keep Betta macrostoma? Have you heard or seen someone practice "stripping" with Betta macrostoma male?Sea & Reef's Longfin Storms! says:
[…] The name should have made the genetic combination rather obvious already; this is the combination of both the Storm and Snowflake genes, overlaid on a “black” base. Sea & Reef does not lay claim to the invention fo the Snow Storm Clownfish; this combination was first introduced by Florida-based ORA in late 2019. […]