Category: Saltwater

This MACNA – Marine Aquarium Conference of North America – 2019 had some of the BEST display tanks that I have seen in my years of covering many different …

 I recently shared some images of butterflyfish from the Indo Pacific and Red Sea regions, touching in brief on Chaetodon semilarvatus, the Masked Butterfly.  Given that’s it is such …

MACNA – the Marine Aquarium Conference of North America 2019 – just happened a few days ago and hurricane or no hurricane, we were there to cover it all. …

 The Striped Dottyback (Pseudochromis sankeyi) is often called the Sankey’s Dottyback. This beautiful little fish has white and black stripes running down the length of its body. The fins …

 In my last post I shared some images of superficially similar Chaetodon species from the Red Sea and Indo Pacific region.  Here are three more similar fish from the …

Plastic eating bacteria, floating pumice and What to Maintain when You are maintaining. Jeremy’s tank is starting the uglies and Peter got the very interesting results from his ICP …

 Time after time I’ve been out on a reef photographing something – a coral head full of anthias perhaps – when part of the reef gets fed up with …

Many of us measure the nitrate and phosphate levels in our aquariums regularly, hoping to find a value of zero, and being disappointed by a high reading. Why? This …

 I promised you I will make part II of the fluorescence photography sessions from 2019 Reefapalooza New York and despite the fact it took me some time to format …

 Out on the reef, yellow is a very prominent color, especially in full tropical sun.  Yellow fish, especially members of the Chaetodontids, make great photography subjects.  Here are several …