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.
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.
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,”
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
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.
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