The leaf scorpionfish is very good at going unnoticed. Not only does it look like a piece of water-logged plant material (which i...

  The longfin waspfish is spectacular species that is not easy to keep in the home aquarium. At night it emerges from the sand and cruise...

  The glass anemone destroyer - the bristle-tail filefish ( Acreichthys tomentosus ) A number of years ago, I shared information about...

  "Oh what pretty tube-feet you have!" A pair of harlequin shrimp on a rubble patch off the coast of Sulawesi are having a Lin...

   The redtooth or niger triggerfish ( Odonus niger ) is a handsome fish that can be kept in a reef aquarium. Of all the potentially reef...

   A male ribbon eel with the characteristic flared nostrils and barbel-like filaments on the lower jaw.   The ribbon eel ( Rhinomur...

   The large terminal phase Creole wrasse is a sight to behold!  The family Labridae, known commonly as wrasses, is comprised of a ple...

   Skunk cleaner shrimp inspects the mouth of a complying anthias. Photo by Scott W. Michael. We aquarists have long suggested that ...

 The key to keeping your marine fishes healthy, like this Limbaugh's angelfish ( Holacanthus limbaughi ), is to keep stress at a mi...

A pair of yellow shrimpgobies (Cryptocentrus cinctus) and an undescribed species of snapping shrimp on a sandy slope in the Raja Ampa...

There are a number of snails that are employed to help turn the upper layers of the sand bed and to scavenge on food items that come to r...

      The beautiful Coco Worm (Protula magnifica) is a difficult animal to keep long-term. Tube worms are beautiful, fascinating membe...