Celebrating its fourteenth anniversary, Zoomark International is the top trade show in the pet supplies industry in the odd years. Tremendous meeting platform, it is an irreplaceable chance to grow, interact, confront products, news and proposals, to transfer know-how, upgrade professionally and broaden one’s knowledge. The exhibitors are manufacturers and distributors of pet food, care […]
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ZOOMARK 2011 International – Italy 12 to 15 May
Posted: 13th January 2011 by admin in NewsTags: http://www.aquamarin.com.sg/blog/?p=2049
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Gobies are the largest group of fishes known in the world
Posted: 27th November 2010 by admin in NewsTags: Blenny, Blue Banded Goby, gobies, goby, Lythrypnus gilberti Gobies
The Gobies are the largest group of fishes known in the world. With more than 1,600 species documented, these creatures have presented a taxonomical nightmare to fish-finders since the great age of Imperialism took natural history to all corners of the globe. They are also represented in their greatest diversity in the Indo-Pacific, and like […]
KPMG Reef Check Team
Posted: 27th November 2010 by admin in NewsTags: EcoDiver, KPMG, Nonprofits & Activism, reef check, Reef Check Malaysia
A video of KPMG, one of Reef Check Malaysia’s corporate sponsor doing their survey on their adopted reef, Soyak Island in Tioman. REEF CHECK WORLDWIDE Share on digg
A Non-Profit Organization Dedicated to Empowering People to Save Our Reefs
Posted: 27th November 2010 by admin in NewsTags: Global Coral Reef Crisis, reef check, the Reef Check Foundation
About Reef Check Reef Check – A Non-Profit Organization Dedicated to Empowering People to Save Our Reefs and Oceans Founded in 1996 by marine ecologist Dr. Gregor Hodgson, the Reef Check Foundation is an international non-profit organization dedicated to conservation of two ecosystems: tropical coral reefs and California rocky reefs. With headquarters in Los Angeles […]
Ghostly creature discovered in the deepest reaches of the ocean
Posted: 27th November 2010 by admin in NewsTags: Celebes Sea, national geographic, new species, Squidworm
A “flamboyant” new species of marine worm has been discovered living in the Celebes Sea, between the Philippines and Indonesia. “When the image came onto the screen, everyone said, Oh my gosh, what’s that?” said marine zoologist Laurence Madin of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. The new species, called Teuthidodrilus samae (literally the […]
Full Moon Trigger Coral Spawning In Japan
Posted: 7th November 2010 by admin in NewsTags: coral, coral spawning, japan, okinawa
Full Moon Trigger Coral Spawning In Okinawa Japan. Here is a really cool video about an entire coral reef spawning. Triggered by a full moon, this Okinawa coral reef put on this beautiful display. Corals can reproduce both asexually and sexually. In reefkeeping hobby, we constantly see new polyps and branches growing on our SPS; […]
$45,000 Clam Shipment – MMDC
Posted: 3rd October 2010 by admin in News, VideosTags: ICOD, Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center, MMDC, MMDC Giant Clam Hatchery, Pacific Fisheries Development Foundation, Tridacna derasa clam
During the week of November 12-17, 1987, staff and trainees from the MMDC Giant Clam Hatchery in Palau exported 3,000 captive-bred specimens of the threatened species Tridacna derasa (mean shell size 9.4 cm or 3.6 inches) to American Samoa as part of a regional reef stocking and conservation program. This video shows a team of […]
Deadly Clam Predator at MMDC
Posted: 3rd October 2010 by admin in News, VideosTags: ICOD, Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center, MMDC, MMDC Giant Clam Hatchery, Pacific Fisheries Development Foundation, Tridacna derasa clam
Tom Watson, Theofanes Isamu and Germance Taro examine a large “fugu” pufferfish (Tetradon stellatus) speared by a night diver in the MMDC Giant Clam Nursery in Malakal Harbor, Republic of Palau. Inside the puffer’s mouth at the time it was killed was a fragment of freshly broken shell from a 3-year-old cultured giant clam, Tridacna […]
Palau (MMDC) Clam Farming – Part 2
Posted: 3rd October 2010 by admin in News, VideosTags: ICOD, Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center, MMDC, MMDC Giant Clam Hatchery, Pacific Fisheries Development Foundation, Tridacna derasa clam
Palau’s MMDC (Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center), founded in the late 1960’s by James McVey of NOAA, hold’s the distinction of being the world’s first successful giant clam hatchery and ocean farm. Masashi Yamaguchi and Steve Jameson achieved successful laboratory-scale spawning and larval culture with several tridacnid clam species in Palau and Guam in the early […]
Palau (MMDC) Clam Farming – Part 1
Posted: 3rd October 2010 by admin in News, VideosTags: ICOD, Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center, MMDC, MMDC Giant Clam Hatchery, Pacific Fisheries Development Foundation, Tridacna derasa clam
Palau’s MMDC (Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center), founded in the late 1960’s by James McVey of NOAA, hold’s the distinction of being the world’s first successful giant clam hatchery and ocean farm. Masashi Yamaguchi and Steve Jameson achieved successful laboratory-scale spawning and larval culture with several tridacnid clam species in Palau and Guam in the early […]