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.
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 [...]
Can Our Anemones Sting?
The short version: Yes, an anemone can sting you.
We house various types of anemones in our home aquariums. The most common of which is the bubble tip anemone Entacmaea quadricolor. Other anemones like the long tentacle and carpet anemones are also kept, but the species of the anemone is useless for this conversation. Anemones possess [...]
Decorator Crab Among a Purple Forest
The guys at Coral Morphologic are at it again with the stunning aquarium videos. Recently displayed on their Morphologic Blog is this gem of a video featuring a decorator crab among the purple Asparagopsis taxiformis macroalgae. The crab in the video, as its name implies, is adorned with the purple algae allowing it to blend [...]
Electric Flame Scallop Video
The flame scallop is a very colorful bivalve that usually finds its way into the aquariums of naive or inexperienced aquarium keepers. They are a vibrant red color and filter phytoplankton and other microscopic organisms from the water. They are also extremely difficult to care for and should therefore not be purchased. But what’s so [...]
Picture of the Week – 1/25 – 1/31
This week’s Picture of the Week is of a pair of Hawaiian Harlequin Shrimp devouring a Chocolate Chip Sea Star.
Elysia chlorotica is Part Plant, Part Animal
It has been widely known that various sea slugs found throughout the ocean capture cells from things they eat and incorporate them into their own tissue. Anemone eating nudibranchs utilize the stinging cells (nematocysts) of its food as a form of defense. The slug eats the anemone and puts the stinging cells into fleshy appendages [...]
