The New Era MINI MarineGrazer an Attracitve Feeding Option
Over the weekend, we got some extensive playtime with a boxful of New Era fish foods. One of the products sent to us was the fairly new MINI MarineGrazer, a suction cup based feeding station for grazing fish like tangs and angelfish. We were quite intrigued with this feeding device, and given the unique way [...]
Paracentropyge boylei Seen in Natural Deepwater Habitat of Boorea
A couple of days ago, we caught wind of a once-in-a-lifetime fish, the Peppermint Angelfish (Paracentropyge boylei), being donated to the Waikiki Aquarium by Richard Pyle. The rare and stunning angel is only one of two total P. boylei known to be alive in captivity, and biologists at the world famous aquarium get to ogle [...]
Threeline Basslet (Lipogramma trilineatum) Seen on Video
B-Box Aquarium, a Japan-based aquarium company deeply rooted in the rarest of the rare deepwater fish, has gotten their hands another gem, the Threeline Basslet (Lipogramma trilineatum). Much like the other super rare fish showing up in the aquarium trade over the past couple of years, this amazing basslet hails from the extreme depths of [...]
Amazing Acro Dominated Japanese Aquarium
We love Japanese reef aquariums. They are simple in design, but appeal to a complex array of senses and they are just so different than what we see here in the US. The rock structure is beyond minimal, and the little bit of rock that is present is strategically covered by large plating Acropora colonies, [...]
Lionfish Capture Prey by Spitting
We’ve all read about the intense lionfish invasion of the western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea and the extremely adverse effects the fish have had on those delicate ecosystems, but this is one of the few times we get to see how these very effective predators hunt down their unsuspecting prey. In a recent study [...]
A Look at Diadema Urchins by Fincasters
In the early 1980s, the Caribbean saw a massive die off of the long spine sea urchin (Diadema sp.), an important algae grazing invertebrate that cleaned off valuable space for coral settlement. The official cause of the urchin decline was eventually described as an unknown disease, but regardless of the cause, it put coral populations [...]
Reef Fish Aggression Caught on Tape
While rummaging through old photos and videos in order to perform a long overdue backup of our data, we stumbled upon some really old footage showing a trio of blue green reef Chromis (Chromis viridis) displaying to each other aggressively. The three fish can be seen flaring their fins, presenting their sides in order to [...]
Unusual Aquarium Livestock at Fish Gallery Houston
Since starting a major project at work that requires I be there 14 days in a row and getting only one day off, I haven’t had a whole lot of time to peruse the local aquarium scene here in Houston. Fortunately, yesterday was that one off day and I decided to pay a quick visit [...]
An Inside Look at Aquarium Collecting
Ever wonder how your wild-caught fish, corals, and invertebrates are collected from the reef? Well, landlocked hobbyists are in for a treat, as Talking Fish gives us all a little more insight as to how one of the larger aquarium collectors operates. This episode follows the family owned and operated aquarium collecting group, Cairns Marine, [...]
Video Demonstrating How the Deep Sea Aquatics Neo Storm Works
Back in September, AquaNerd contributor Keith Hatch stumbled upon a brand new open top aquarium from Deep Sea Aquatics (DSA) called the Neo Storm. The aquarium, which is basically a beefed up version of the Neo Nano, was first spied at the Super Zoo pet show in Las Vegas, and despite looking very similar to [...]
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