Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Cortez Marine Owner Sentenced for Illegal Smuggling
Steve Robinson, the owner of the fish importing company known as Cortez Marine International, learned his legal fate earlier this week when he received his sentence for illegally collecting and importing 52 Clipperton angelfish (Holacanthus limbaughi) back in 2009. The fish, which aren’t illegal to import if all of the proper permits are attained, were [...]
SWC Owner Convicted of Illegal Importing
According to the Winnipeg Free Press, Jason Daeninck, owner of Salt Water Connection (or SWC), has apparently been convicted of illegally importing protected live rock, sea horses and giant clams into the city of Winnipeg from Indonesia. Daeninck was found guilty of 18 charges under the federal Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International [...]
ORA Raising McCulloch’s Clownfish
The marine ornamental aquaculture geniuses at ORA are at it again, with the latest offering of aquacultured clownfish species being the gorgeous ORA McCulloch’s Clownfish (Amphiprion mccullochi). But their success with this new species is quite a bit different than what they’re used to, as the clownfish presented several challenges. According to ORA, when the [...]
A Second Hawaiian County Attempting Ban on the Aquarium Trade
In one of his latest articles on the MASNA Blog covering the aquarium trade’s legal hurdles in Hawaii, Ret Talbot tells the aquarium community that the Kauai County Council has voted unanimously to get a draft resolution into next year’s legislative package that would place an outright ban on the collection of wildlife to be [...]
Tenecor Shuts Down Shop Permanently
Tenecor has officially gone out of business. Much like the glass aquarium builders at Aquarium Obsessed, the acrylic aquarium manufacturer was another well known supplier of tanks for many years, eventually becoming one of the largest and most often purchased aquariums in the hobby. However, it’s their previous success that may have led to their [...]
Wild-Caught Banggai Cardinalfish Contracting Untreatable and Highly Contagious Virus
The small and unassuming Banggai cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni) have been the center of more than their fair share of controversies over the past several years. Their limited distribution and the overwhelming desire by hobbysts to house these gorgeous shoaling fish in marine aquariums have driven their numbers down significantly in the wild. On top of that, aquarium collectors have been blamed [...]
Nanotuners Ends Direct-to-Consumer Operations
Here’s some potentially bad news for the nano tank crowd. The popular nano aquarium DIY gurus at Nanotuners (aka Nanocustoms) have apologetically announced that they are ending their “consumer facing operations”, and are instead switching gears. While we haven’t been able to clarify exactly what these statements mean as of yet, we assume this to [...]
Aquarium Industry Icon Rolf Hagen Passes Away
Some sad news for the pet industry, it was recently announced that well known industry icon Rolf C. Hagen passed away suddenly at his home in Montreal on October 22. Born in Germany in the 1930s, Rolf immigrated to Canada in the mid 1950s to start Rolf C. Hagen Inc., an export business that sent [...]
Another AquaNerd Coming Soon
Even though I try not to post too much about my personal happenings online, this is something that’s just too exciting to hold back. After enjoying the married life for a few years, my wife and I are finally expecting our very own little future AquaNerd. It’s still too soon to tell if I will [...]
CoralVue Lands US Distributorship for Maxspect LED Lighting
We’ve been hearing faint grumblings of some issues within the Maxspect distribution network as of late, with potential customers complaining about the lack of availability of the all new Mazarra LED fixtures and some hinting that the LED lights were being pulled from websites altogether. We weren’t sure the reason behind the rumors, as there [...]
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