Coral Frag Caddy Simplifies Coral Transport
The guys at BMC Acrylics have developed one of the most ingenious and useful tools for traveling frag traders/sellers, called the Coral Frag Caddy. This very simple setup allows users to safely transport frags on frag racks stored in buckets. The buckets then easily fit into a cooler, as demonstrated below.
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.
Picture of the Week – 3/8 – 3/14
Pictured in this week’s AquaNerd Picture of the Week is a stonefish seen in a Moody Gardens aquarium.
Dolphin Documentary Wins Big at Academy Awards
I normally don’t follow Hollywood related events, but a certain award given out at at the Academy Awards caught my attention last night. I was surfing the web while my wife watched the award ceremony, and the movie “The Cove” was displayed as a nominee for one of the categories. “The Cove”, a chilling documentary [...]
Low Oxygen Zones in the Ocean Growing
Areas of hypoxia, or low oxygen, have long existed in the deep waters of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans, but appear to be growing according to scientists. These “dead zones” appear to be spreading even into continental shelf areas and even approaching the surface. The lack of oxygen is so bad in some areas [...]
Behind the Scenes at Moody Gardens
My local aquarium club, MARSHReef, got to take a behind the scenes tour of the Aquarium Pyramid at Moody Gardens. The tour was nice, but nothing new for me since I worked there in college. The display tanks weren’t in the greatest shape, but we have to remember that Moody Gardens and the entire southeast [...]
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 [...]
