Watch the heartbeat of Banggai cardinalfish still in their eggs [video]

From Advanced Aquarist By Shane Graber Richard Ross captured some great close-up video footage of tiny Banggai cardinalfish still in their eggs. Normally the male holds the eggs in his mouth; however the male spit most of his eggs a couple days prior so these were stripped shortly thereafter. https://vimeo.com/84739968 For more about breeding these fish […]

An Oct-TOE-Puss the Size of a Horse

On Jan 5, 2014, Rich was on Penn’s Sunday School talking to Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau and Matt Donnelly talking about the Oklahoma Octopus, falling into aquariums and more. The iTunes blurb – “Penn and Teller celebrate 13 years at the Rio. James Randi calls in and we talk cephalopod news with Rich Ross” Listen […]

2013 Marine Breeder’s Year in Review

From Reefbuilders by Matthew Pedersen  It’s the 4th annual installment of the Marine Breeder’s Year in Review (see past installments at 2010, 2011a, 2011b, and 2012) and frankly, it’s been an interesting if not arguably “slow” year for a change, and yet I’ll probably write more than ever! Breeders are pursuing all sorts of projects, but ‘success’ in terms of […]