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    Striking Mauritius Coral Beauty Lands in Japan

    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 [...]

    June 3, 2010
    | eric michael | fish, japan | Tags: , , | 3 Comments

    Aberrant Flame Angels Hit Japan, Lack Black Pigment

    Japan based retailer Crownfish has received an array of Central Pacific and Hawaiian fish, but these aberrant Flame Angelfish (Centropyge loriculus) are stealing the show–based on their ¥195,000 ($2,100 USD) price tag Crownfish is well aware. Unfortunately, abberant morphs like this rarely keep their color, but we can hope. The fish do show some black [...]

    February 24, 2010
    | eric michael | fish, japan | Tags: , , | 9 Comments

    Japan’s Marine Aquarist No.53 an International Affair

    A few months back I mentioned Kiyoshi Endoh’s upcoming issue of Marine Aquarist, No.53, that would feature a bit of Glassbox Design. After some shipping mishaps I’ve finally go my own hard copy–hopefully the lost issues will end up in the hands of an aquarist! In 2009 I was asked by Kiyoshi to write an [...]

    February 23, 2010
    | eric michael | japan, misc, reef news | Tags: , , , | 6 Comments

    Photos from the New Blue Harbor: Spotlight Galore, Shark Tank and Rare Fish

    This weekend our friend Koji Wada reopened his freshly renovated Blue Harbor fish store to the public. The Osaka, Japan based store is known throughout the world for its rare fishes, and this reopening did not disappoint. As much as we would have loved to traverse that 9,000 mile gap, I had to leave it [...]

    February 1, 2010
    | eric michael | japan | Tags: , , | 11 Comments

    Grassy LeDio 21 LED Spotlights from Japan

    Volx, a Japanese lighting manufacturer has bumped up the wattage of their Grassy LeDio spotlights with the LeDio 21– a 7 x 3w LED spotlight in a cast aluminum heatsink body, that simply screws into a household socket. The 1/3rd less powerful Grassy LeDdio 7 LED spotlight has now been available for sometime, which featured [...]

    November 2, 2009
    | eric michael | japan, lighting, reef news | Tags: , , , | 3 Comments

    Update on Anagonbe’s Reef in HD

    Anagonbe’s coralscaped reef is one of the most unique tanks out there–love it or hate it, the mix of vibrant tabling and staghorn Acropora keep your eyes fixated on the screen. Here’s an update of his beautiful reef–notice the large shoal of small Green Chromis (Chromis viridis) that he has recently added.

    October 15, 2009
    | eric michael | japan, video | Tags: , , | 4 Comments