Archive for the ‘Picture of the Week’ Category
Picture of the Week, Lettuce Nudibranch (Elysia crispata)
Pictured in the newest AquaNerd Picture of the Week is a Lettuce Nudibranch (Elysia crispata). While most nudibranchs are not desirable in the home aquarium, this little sea slug serves one very beneficial function…consuming unsightly algae. The lettuce nudibranch, which technically isn’t a true nudibranch, consumes different types of algae from the rockwork and incorporates [...]
Picture of the Week, White Feather Duster
Pictured in this installment of the AquaNerd Picture of the Week is a closeup of a white and red feather duster seen in the same nano aquarium that last week’s ORA Sprung Stunner was found in. The heavy blue lighting from the Kessil Ocean Blue A150W LED pendant really allows the feather duster to stand [...]
Picture of the Week, ORA Sprung’s Stunner
Pictured in the latest installment of the AquaNerd Picture of the Week is a glowing ORA Sprung’s Stunner seen in a gorgeous Kessil powered nano aquarium at Fish Gallery. This piece is a relatively new addition to ORA’s growing lineup of aquacultured corals and takes its name from Two Little Fishies owner Julian Sprung. Julian [...]
Picture of the Week – 11/7 – 11/13
Over the weekend, I got to spend a good deal of time at Fish Gallery, a high end local fish store. After getting to speak to members of the local aquarium club about aquarium chemistry, I wandered around the store and came across a gorgeous Kessil LED illuminated nano aquarium that was full of interesting [...]
Picture of the Week – 10/31 – 11/6
We’re sort of on a Cycloseris kick at the moment, so it’s no surprise that our latest AquaNerd Picture of the Week is full of the stunning plate corals. Seen at MACNA, these cherry pieces are some of the best plate corals we’ve ever seen. You’ll notice that, with the exception of the orange plate, [...]
Picture of the Week – 10/24 – 10/30
Pictured in this installment of the AquaNerd Picture of the Week is an orange finger sponge seen in the Coral Restoration Foundation reef tank at the Boyd Enterprises booth at MACNA. We don’t get to see to many sponges in the aquarium hobby, and we assume this is because so many people think they are [...]
Picture of the Week – 10/17 – 10/23
Pictured in the latest AquaNerd Picture of the Week is a pair of ocellaris clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) exhibiting numerous black spots on their bodies. The common belief for these spots is that they form when a clownfish tries to take up residence in a coral, usually when an anemone is not present. The coral stings [...]
Picture of the Week – 10/10 – 10/16
Pictured in this week’s AquaNerd Pic of the Week is a Labout’s Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus laboutei) that was seen in the huge display reef at LiveAquaria booth at MACNA last month. For those of you who didn’t make it to the conference, or were too busy drooling over aquarium equipment to visit this particular booth, [...]
Picture of the Week – 9/26 – 10/2
Pictured in this week’s installment of the AquaNerd Picture of the Week is an ORA Blue Cespitularia coral seen in the circular Zero Edge aquarium at MACNA. This gorgeous soft coral isn’t a recent addition to ORA’s lineup by any means, but it’s still one we see very little of at the local aquarium stores [...]
Picture of the Week – 9/19 – 9/25
Pictured in this week’s AquaNerd POTW is a Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) frag being displayed at the Boyd’s Enterprises booth at MACNA. The purpose of this display was to show the different growing strategies that conservation groups have attempted when restoring this coral’s wild populations. This particular strategy is an alteration of a method that [...]
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