Gramma dejongi – a still image from the video below
Gramma dejongi is a new, yet to be officially described Caribbean basslet from Cuba. The recently discovered fish is named after Arie de Jong of the famed Dutch outfit, De Jong Marinelife. Arie has a habit of finding the rare and unusual, and this Gramma is [...]
Recently Mother Nature has thrown in her two cents on the designer clownfish debate with the Lightning Maroon Clownfish, showing that she may actually make the best “designer clowns” of all. But whether they are natural creations or imposed by humans, sometimes variants are just weird.
Take, for example, these wild caught Amphiprion ocellaris tailless clownfish [...]
Once on land a debate ensued–is this elegant animal a baby Oarfish? The specimen was quickly sent to Japanese LFS Yadokari-ya, where GBD writer Tetsuo Otake was able to see this fish in person during the acclimation. After closer inspection we believe this specimen is a juvenile Trachipterus trachypterus, colloqiually referred to as a Ribbon Fish.
The specimen shown above recently landed in Japan and made its way to the popular marine store B-Box. This East Indian Ocean variant is often referred to as as a Mauritian Coral Beauty, and clearly identified by the Potter’s like fine lines on the caudal fins.
We’ve seen them in solid orange and even solid blue. [...]
This month’s ORA captive bred fish release is a long awaited cross between the Black Ocellaris and Snowflake clown. The resulting offspring have been aptly named ORA Black Ice Semi-Snowflake Clownfish. We shared back in October that Dustin Dorton and the ORA crew were working on this designer hybrid, hoping to breed a pure Black Snowflake [...]
Palythoa caribaeorum is a common Caribbean polyp species that packs the most lethal non-proteinaceous marine toxin known to man–palytoxin. Palytoxin is responsible for countless numb hands and tingling finger tips in aquarists. It is also responsible for deaths of many animals and it is estimated that just 5 micrograms can kill a humans.
It is truly [...]
