Tube Anemone Glowing Under Ecoxotic LED Photon Cannon

Pictured in this week’s Picture of the Week is a Tube Anemone glowing under the actinic lighting of the Ecoxotic Photon Cannon. The Photon Cannon is a very popular light. It is supposed to perform as well as a metal halide light, if not better, but at a fraction of the energy input.

Dive Trip in Egypt

This week’s Picture of the Week is of a recent dive trip a friend of mine took with her husband while in Egypt. We will have plenty of more pictures in article covering their diving excursion within the next couple of days, but for now this picture will have to do. I’ve seen some of the images and I must say that I’m very jealous of their trip.

Acropora loisettae

Pictured above is a light blue-green Acropora loisettae growing among other SPS corals. This particular Acro will grow long, thing branches. This mini-colony started out as a 1/2″ frag, that quickly encrusted onto the surrounding rocks and eventually grew more branches. Most Acro corals do very well under T5HO lighting, and even thrive long-term. Metal halides are not a requirement to keep these corals.

ORA Naked Ocellaris Clownfish in Green Bubble Tip Anemone

This week’s Picture of the Week comes to you from the AquaNerd Flickr page. The picture is of two ORA Naked Ocellaris clownfish taking up residence in a green bubble tip anemone.

Acropora sarmentosa Coral

Pictured this week is an Acropora sarmentosa, purchased from T&T Fish and Reptile. More mature colonies can develop into a plating structure. This colony is still young, but you can begin to see some of this plating as branches fuse together in some spots.

Gramma Dejongi

Photo Courtesy of Paul Geleen

Pictured in this week’s AquaNerd Picture of the Week is the Gramma dejongi that recently became available to aquarists. This fish is native to Cuban waters, and seeing as how there’s a small trade embargo getting in the way, this fish won’t exactly be available to US aquarium keepers through the normal channels.

Blue Green Reef Chromis

This week’s AquaNerd Picture of the Week is of a Blue Green Reef Chromis (Chromis viridis). These fish are related to damselfish, but are a little more passive. However, they can develop a mean streak and your small school might dwindle down to a few individuals over time.

ORA Grade A Picasso Clownfish

This week’s Picture of the Week is of an ORA Grade A Picasso Clownfish. This clownfish is my absolute favorite. They have a very unique pattern and great color, but it’s not all white like the ORA Platinum Picasso Clownfish.

Oil Covered Crab from BP Oil Spill

Here is a picture of an oil covered crab, just another victim of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, and subsequent spill, in the Gulf of Mexico. For more images of injured andmials, you can visit Yahoo News.

Bottom of South Pacific Exhibit

Here is a pretty neat shot of a Cownose Stingray hovering over a Zebra Shark in the South Pacific exhibit at Moody Gardens in Galveston, Texas.