by Matt Pedersen | Jun 16, 2023 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine, New Products
The attractive juvenile coloration of the White Damselfish, Dischistodus perspicillatus, can’t be denied! However, aquarists need to be prepared for the fish that this becomes over time. Image Credit: Rickard Zerpe, CC BY 2.0 The Biota Group has had an eventful...
by Matt Pedersen | Apr 16, 2021 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
Quietly announced some weeks ago to their wholesale customers, we finally get a look at another captive-breeding first from Biota, the Yellow Lyretail Damselfish, Neopomacentrus azysron. Image courtesy The Biota Group. Biota’s Palau facility has released a first...
by Matt Pedersen | Mar 6, 2020 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine, New Products
Damselfish are truly a staple of the marine aquarium hobby. They often wind up as a somewhat underappreciated “beginner’s fish,” relegated to being the first piscine additions to a new aquarium. They may carry reputations for aggression, which are...
by Matt Pedersen | Oct 25, 2018 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine, New Products
Easy to keep, hardy, and relatively peaceful bread-and-butter species are needed by beginning aquarists, and ORA intends to fill that need with captive-bred options. While captive-breeding breakthroughs over the past 12 months seem to be dominated by new species and...
by Matt Pedersen | May 30, 2018 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine, New Products
The Sapphire Damselfish, Pomacentrus pavo, is also known as the Peacock Damsel or simply the Pavo Damsel. This species has been on CORAL Magazine’s captive-bred ornamental marine fish species list since we started keeping track in 2013, but it was never...
