misc, video
Take by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), this clip shows a routine filming from one of their bated camera. All types of underwater animals are attracted to the food scent, but one had to have the whole thing… keep an eye on the clip until the end.
Here’s what AIMS has to say on [...]
fish, video
The Marcella Butterfly (Prognathodes marcellae) is a beautiful fish hailing from the waters of Western Africa. This species shares many characteristics with its Prognathodes brethren, namely the caricature like elongated dorsal spines, pointed mouth, and eye stripe. In fact, excluding coloration, P.marcellae is meristcally indistinguishable from its eastern cognates, the Bank Butterfly (P. aya) and [...]
fish, reef news
The Red Grouper (Epinephelus morio) looks like any other large Serranidae, including its large mouth. But now scientists have found that the deepwater atlantic species uses its lurching jaws for more than just eating–it uses them to build. Dubed the ‘Frank Lloyd Wright of the Sea Floor’, the Red Grouper excavates and builds complex structures, [...]
fish, reef news
Genicanthus takeuchii is one of the rarest fish in the ‘marine trade’–so rare that the video shown below is believed to be one of the only specimens in captivity and in truth, the only specimen proven to be in captivity. This fish has been said to be collected in the past, but this is the [...]
design, misc
This 450 L Elos reef was installed by the French aqua specialists at Neoquarium. The home already incorporated plenty of clean contemporary lines, but the rimless Elos Aquarium and raw aluminum in the wall mounted Elos eLites certainly adds a touch of class. This is the first time we’ve seen the eLite mounted in this [...]