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 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 CORAL Magazine | Apr 28, 2016 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
The May/June 2016 Issue of CORAL Magazine is printed and now delivering to subscribers, local aquarium shops and select bookstores. On sale date: May 3, 2016 at the best marine aquarium retail stores and leading Barnes & Noble stores everywhere. Readers of the...
by Matt Pedersen | Apr 15, 2016 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
It was admittedly surreal to look at the holding tank in my fishroom this March and realize it housed five of the first captive-bred Yellow Tangs the world has ever known. I quipped online among my friends that I never thought that I’d see this happen in one of my...
by CORAL Magazine | Mar 23, 2016 | Marine, News & Notes
The Marine Ornamental Program at Roger Williams University is successfully rearing the Yasha Goby (Stonogobiops yasha) in captivity! Working under Dr. Andy Rhyne, a team of undergraduates in Rhode Island has six pairs of the highly popular nano marine fish spawning...