by Matt Pedersen | Dec 9, 2015 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
I was rummaging through old photography recently and came across something I had documented, but never shared. During the teardown of a reef tank, I inadvertently nailed myself with a bristleworm…and not a little one. This wasn’t the coral-eating...
by Matt Pedersen | Nov 13, 2015 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater, Marine
It’s not every day you learn that the Florida Tropical Fish Farms Association (FTFFA) wants to sell your magazine, along with fish rations by the ton, but earlier in 2015 we added their co-op shop to the growing list of local retailers and suppliers of AMAZONAS...
by Matt Pedersen | Nov 12, 2015 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
While it’s fair to say that the majority of aquariums on display at the 2015 Aquatic Experience were freshwater, that should come as no surprise, given the vastly larger size of the freshwater aquarium hobby. Still, marine fish were very well represented. While...
by Matt Pedersen | Oct 21, 2015 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
Opinion by Matt Pedersen The news of the world’s first documented captive-bred tangs, specifically Yellow Tangs (Zebrasoma flavescens) reared by the Oceanic Institute (OI) of Hawaii Pacific University in Waimanalo, HI, has the entire aquarium world in a frenzy...
by Matt Pedersen | Oct 21, 2015 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine, News & Notes
Major breakthrough in captive breeding of Yellow Tangs at Oceanic Institute of Hawai’i Pacific University Reported by Matt Pedersen On a Tuesday afternoon, Hawaiian Standard Time, October 20th, 2015, the marine aquarium world changed forever. It was then that...