News — conservation

By Ricky Collucci As a marketing content coordinator, I have different responsibilities than many employees here at Absolutely Fish. Instead of sticking my hands in tanks, applying fish husbandry knowledge, and caring for our range of aquatic animals, my duties pertain more to event planning, content creation, and a variety of office tasks that change day to day. However, as a communications professional, I know how important it is to apply our company mission to every aspect of our operations. With our goals being environmental education and conservation, it’s pertinent that every level of our communication and business operation reflects...

Written by: Anna Dominique G. Mariano There is a common pest anemone that gives all reef enthusiasts massive headaches. This anemone is known as Aiptasia pallida, or the glass anemone. It is incredibly easy for this pest to enter the home reef aquarium, whether it be through live rock or newly purchased coral. Once established, it is very difficult to eradicate. This anemone reproduces asexually through pedal reproduction or laceration, where if it moves it will leave behind smaller Aiptasia to grow into fuller specimens. Any attempts at manual removal will result in this anemone spreading even more throughout the...

First are essential elements and minerals like calcium, alkalinity, magnesium and trace elements which can be supplied with many of the products found in store and on our site. It’s important to maintain proper levels of these parameters in order to facilitate proper health, color and growth particularly in stony hard corals which require these elements in order to grow.

Do you have annoying pest anemone appearing on your live rock or coral frags? Best get in there early and eradicate them! Today, Caleb and Cam show how to use Aiptasia X to manually remove the invading anemone, plus show a few reef safe animals that can help maintain lower numbers as well.