Available in three sizes – a 30 litre square style and a 45 and 60 litre portrait style, the biOrb Life Aquariums from Reef One feature a crystal clear acrylic front and back and are finished with seamless gloss coloured acrylic wrap (choose from chilli red, ice white or piano black).
Each aquarium within the collection [...]
With the recently installed 360-degree rotating Spyball camera, visitors to the Waikiki Aquarium can now come face-to-fin with blacktip reef sharks, jacks and the other inhabitants of the 35,000-gallon Hunters on the Reef exhibit without ever having to get wet.
The Spyball’s videogame-like console and joystick controls direct the camera to rotate and zoom giving adventurers [...]
Though a little larger than most of the other tetra species, the Black Tetras (or the Black Skirt Tetras, or the Black Widow Tetras) are just as peaceful and hardy, and just as suitable for beginners.
These tetras have a dark grey to silver body with black vertical stripes with a dash of shading, though their [...]
Measuring 32.88 metres wide x 8.3 metres high x 750 mm thick and weighing 245,614 kg, the viewing panel at Dubai Aquarium, which is part of the Dubai Mall) surpasses the current Guinness World Record holder, Churaumi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan, at 22.5 metres wide x 8.2 metres high and 600 mm thick.
At 750 mm [...]
The management talk of “rescuing” an animal, who was in distress, but apparently, capturing a whale shark was always part of the hotel’s plan to provide an added tourist attraction.
And from all reports, the Atlantis Hotel on the Palm Jumeriah island off Dubai is succeeding in drawing people. More than a third of the visitors, [...]
Scientifically described by Allen & Cross in 1980, Boeseman’s Rainbowfish or Melanotaenia boesemani is found in the freshwater lakes of Western New Guinea (former Irian Jaya). Even within this region, it can almost be narrowed down to three lakes – Lake Ayamaru, Lake Hain and Lake Aitinjo, as well as in streams flowing into Lake [...]
Originally from Indonesia and Southeast Asia, these fish are referred to as “sharks” because of their torpedo shaped body and their large fins, and not because of any resemblance to their more bloodthirsty namesake.
In fact, quite the opposite, these fish are quite perfect for larger community aquariums, as long as you ensure that none of [...]
A highly active fish, like the other rainbows, the Lake Kubutu Rainbowfish, or the Turqouise Rainbow, is a very colorful and rather hardy fish making it rather ideal for the home aquarium – only problem, it is not readily available.
Their upper body is turquoise blue, which fades to a silvery white towards the lower part [...]
