by Matt Pedersen | Aug 26, 2016 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine, News & Notes
Capping off a week of claiming species firsts, starting with the successful breeding of Potter’s Angelfish and then the breeding of the Lemon Butterflyfish, Rising Tide Conservation is bringing it home with the last piece of the Hawaiian endemic trifecta. Avier...
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 24, 2016 | Marine, News & Notes
In what is shaping up to be a banner summer for marine ornamental aquaculture, Rising Tide Conservation started this week by announcing success with breeding Centropyge potteri. That success, at the hands of aquaculturist and Oceanic Institute intern Avier J....
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 24, 2016 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine, New Products
Pursuing new hybrid clownfish, Sustainable Aquatics is back with a new combination it has named the Salva Dali. This hybrid is the result of mating a “Longfin” Amphiprion ocellaris with a Picasso Percula, A. percula. The resultant hybrid, at its base level...
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 22, 2016 | Marine
Potter’s Angelfish, Centropyge potteri, is a coveted aquarium fish and a Hawaiian endemic. With Hawaii’s reef fishes at the center of ongoing controversy–anti-aquarium activists are painting the state’s managed fishery in as grave a light as...
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 3, 2016 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
Back in 2014, we shared an endearing video series, Matt’s Reef Tank, in which expat Matthew Galat chronicled his life as a reef-keeper in China. Galat had, at the time, uploaded 4 episodes totalling over 80 minutes of footage, but was leaving the reef-keeping...
