Archive for the ‘Aquarium Livestock’ Category
Rare All Black Penguin Photographed
OK, so this isn’t exactly aquarium related, but I found it to be quite interesting. An all black penguin was recently discovered in Antarctica. Andrew Evans from National Geographic was on a trip to the Southern Hemisphere when he stumbled across an extremely rare, monochromatic black King Penguin. This occurrence is so rare that Dr. [...]
Stunning Arrow Crab Video
The guys at the Morphologic Blog have released another eye-popping video, this time of an Arrow crab. Though the arrow crabs are fairly common in the aquarium world, the artistic masters at the Morphologic Blog somehow manage to make this creature seem strange and unfamiliar.
‘The Arrow Crab’ from MORPHOLOGIC on Vimeo.
Behind the Scenes at Moody Gardens
My local aquarium club, MARSHReef, got to take a behind the scenes tour of the Aquarium Pyramid at Moody Gardens. The tour was nice, but nothing new for me since I worked there in college. The display tanks weren’t in the greatest shape, but we have to remember that Moody Gardens and the entire southeast [...]
Parasitic Pearlfish Seen with Sea Cucumber in Captivity
Recently, a good friend and fellow marine biologist found an interesting hitch hiker in with one of the Holothuroid cucumbers he had recently imported. Don, from FragsandMore, was bagging up the Florida sand sifting sea cucumber and noticed a very thin fish in the bag as well. Recalling pictures and videos he had seen, he [...]
Playtime With the New Macro Lens
I got a 100mm macro lens for my Canon XSi for Christmas, thanks to the wife, and have finally gotten a chance to use it. I visited a few of the local fish stores and took tons of pics and wanted to share. Some of these images you may have seen in recent Picture of [...]
Open House at the Drs. Foster and Smith Aquaculture Facility
© 2010 Foster & Smith, Inc. Reprinted as a courtesy and with permission from http://www.LiveAquaria.com
LiveAquaria announced today, via their Facebook Page, that they will be hosting several Open Houses at their Aquaculture Facility in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. This is a great opportunity for hobbyists to see how the pros do it. If you’re in the Rhinelander [...]
Aquarium Full of Anemones and Clownfish
A lot of reef aquariums typically favor one type (or genera) of coral. There are a lot of SPS dominated aquariums, which usually translates to Acropora dominated aquarium. Some even like to go for total LPS domination and spread chalices, favias, and other colorful hard, yet fleshy, corals throughout their tanks. But have you ever [...]
Picture of the Week – 3/1 – 3/7
This week’s AquaNerd Picture of the Week is of a Dragon Face Pipefish. This is the second occurrence of this species on our Picture of the Week and we absolutely love them.
Picture of the Week – 2/22 – 2/28
Sorry it’s a week late, but here is the Picture of the Week for the last week in February. It is of a Borbonius Anthias, otherwise known as the blotchy Anthias.
Surviving the Blizzards
Several months back we discussed how to keep your aquarium running through a Hurricane. But now we have to tackle a new issue that is wreaking havoc on the eastern coast of the United States…and that is blizzards.
Blizzards hit the US every year. Most of the time they are somewhat short lived, but this year [...]
