Elegant Reef - Tropical Fish Studio

06/02/2026

05/30/2026

New frags that hit the showroom!

If you have been into Pokemon lately- check out our new Pickachu zoas 😜

05/29/2026

🐠🌿 Freshwater Livestock Restock Has Arrived! 🌿🐠

We've received a fantastic mix of colorful community fish, premium bettas, oddball species, freshwater shrimp, and live plants this week!

🔥 Featured Arrivals
• Marlboro Yellow Discus
• Scarlet Badis
• Delhezi Bichir
• Peacock Gudgeons
• Silver Wrestling Halfbeaks
• American Flagfish
• Giant Kuhli Loaches
• Platinum Hatchetfish
• Longfin Congo Tetras
• Albino Congo Tetras

🎨 New Betta Selection
This week's betta shipment includes several beautiful varieties, including:
• Black Orchid
• Tiger Koi
• Yellow Koi Galaxy
• Rosetail Radium
• Halfmoon Barongsai
• Delta Dumbo Ear
• Delta Super Blue Panda
• Red Fire Plakat
• Yellowjacket

🦐 Freshwater Shrimp
We've also received a great assortment of shrimp, including:
• Black Galaxy Shrimp
• Red Galaxy Shrimp
• Red Tiger Shrimp
• Blue Velvet Shrimp
• Fire Red Shrimp
• Orange Rili Shrimp
• Giant White Amano Shrimp
• Adult Bamboo Shrimp

🐌 Cleanup Crew
• Assassin Snails
• Tiger Nerites
• Horned Tricolor Nerites
• Red Racer Nerites

🌿 Fresh Tissue Culture Plants
• Anubias 'Golden'
• Pogostemon erectus

🐟 Also In This Week
• Lemon Oscars
• Tiger Oscars
• Panda Corydoras
• Julii Corydoras
• Giant Danios
• Dumbo Ear Guppies
• Black Neon Tetras
• GloFish® varieties and more!

Whether you're looking for a centerpiece fish, expanding a planted tank, or adding to your shrimp colony, there's plenty to check out this week.

Stop by and see what's new before the best specimens find their new homes!

📍 Elegant Reef – Tropical Fish Studio

05/29/2026

Happy Friday! 😁

Boxes and boxes of goodies arriving today.

Stay tuned for an update 🙃

05/29/2026

🐠🪸 New Saltwater Livestock Has Arrived! 🪸🐠

This week's shipment includes a great mix of reef fish, cleanup crew, invertebrates, and a large selection of fresh coral frags and colonies!

🔥 Coral Highlights Include:
• Ultra Elegance Coral
• Neon Green Sinularia
• Devil's Hand Leather Coral
• Burning Ember Zoanthids
• Awesome Blossom Zoanthids
• Rainbow Hornet Zoanthids
• Pikachu Zoanthids
• Pink Sapphire Zoanthids
• Dragon Soul Favites
• Red Goniopora
• Duncan Corals
• Aussie Acan Lords
• Acropora Frags
• Clove Polyps
• And many more!

Coral pricing varies by specimen. Visit the shop to view current selections.

🐟 Fish & Invertebrate Highlights
• Tank Raised Blue Hippo Tang — $100
• Clown Tang — $65
• Atlantic Pygmy Angel — $85
• Falco Hawkfish — $45
• Six Line Wrasse — $30
• Red Scooter Blenny — $35
• Diamond Goby — $40
• Tiger (Wardi) Goby — $55
• Orange Banded Prawn Goby — $55
• Captive-Bred Red Cap Goby — $55
• Aiptasia Eating Filefish — $70
• Purple Base Green Bubble Tip Anemone — $130
• Peppermint Shrimp — $19
• Chocolate Chip Starfish — $18

🦀 Cleanup Crew
• Bumble Bee Snails — $2.99
• Margarita Snails — $2.99
• Red Leg Hermits — $2.99

Need help controlling Aiptasia? We currently have both Aiptasia Eating Filefish and Peppermint Shrimp available.

Stop by this weekend to see everything in person—many of the corals and specialty fish are available in limited quantities and won't last long!

📍 Elegant Reef – Tropical Fish Studio
🌊 Freshwater • Saltwater • Corals • Aquarium Service
💧 RO/DI & Saltwater Available Daily

05/29/2026

Zoanthids, often called “zoas,” are colorful colonial marine animals classified as soft corals in the order Zoantharia. They are made up of tiny individual polyps connected by a shared tissue mat, and each polyp has a soft body with a ring of tentacles surrounding its mouth. Zoas contain proteins, water, living tissue, and tiny symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae that help provide energy through photosynthesis.

05/28/2026

𝑅ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, a new species of river goby (Gobiidae) is described from the Tuojiang River and the Minjiang River, two tributaries of the Changjiang River, Sichuan Province, southwestern China. 𝑅ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 occurs sympatrically with 𝑅ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑧𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 in the Minjiang River basin, representing a sympatric sister-species pair.

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲
𝑅ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠: a new species of freshwater goby (Teleostei, Gobiidae) from Sichuan Province, southwestern China

Open-access - https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/188225/

𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Liu X, Chen Z-G, Shu Y-F, Huang J-H, Liu K, Yu Y (2026) 𝑅ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠: a new species of freshwater goby (Teleostei, Gobiidae) from Sichuan Province, southwestern China. ZooKeys 1280: 333-347. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1280.188225

𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁
A new species of freshwater goby, 𝑅ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 sp. nov., is described from the upper Changjiang River basin in Sichuan Province, China, based on comparative morphology and molecular phylogeny. The new species is sister to 𝑅ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑧𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 Tchang, 1939 and can be distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characters: absence of sensory canals and pores on head; cheeks and operculum without spots or stripes; second dorsal fin with 9–11 longitudinal rows of inverted V-shaped or dash-like brown markings; incomplete brownish edges on flank scales below second dorsal fin; branchiostegal membrane bright yellow.

𝗘𝘁𝘆𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆
The species is named after its type locality, Mengyang Town. The authors suggest 濛阳吻虾虎鱼 (méng yáng wěn xiā hǔ yú) as a Chinese vernacular name.

𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁
Top - 𝑅ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 sp. nov. alive. A . Male, Tuojiang River basin (holotype, IHB 0202506006); B . Female, Tuojiang River basin (Paratype, IHB 0202506007); C . Male, Qingyijiang River basin; D. Female, Qingyijiang River basin.
Bottom - Comparison of the colouration between 𝑅ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑧𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 and 𝑅ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 sp. nov. A . 𝑅ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑧𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠; B . 𝑅ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 sp. nov.

© 2026 the Author(s). Published in the journal ZooKeys. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) licence.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

05/27/2026

🚨 NOW HIRING — AQUARIUM SERVICE TECHNICIAN 🚨

Elegant Reef is looking for a dependable, motivated individual to join our aquarium service team.

This is a hands-on position servicing aquariums in homes and businesses throughout the area. Duties include aquarium maintenance, water changes, equipment cleaning, troubleshooting, and helping care for freshwater and saltwater systems.

Experience in aquarium service is a plus, but not required. We are willing to train the right person.

We are looking for someone who:
✔ Reliable and punctual
✔ Comfortable working independently
✔ Professional in customers’ homes and businesses
✔ Good with problem solving and hands-on work
✔ Comfortable driving a company vehicle
✔ Willing to learn aquarium systems and animal care

Backgrounds such as pool service, maintenance work, route service, plumbing, or related industries may transfer well to this position.

Requirements:

Valid driver’s license
Good driving record preferred
Able to lift buckets and equipment
Positive attitude and willingness to grow

This position has room for growth for the right person.

To apply:
📧 [email protected]

05/26/2026

Monodactylus species, often called monos or fingerfish, have their shiny silver bodies and bold black markings as a form of camouflage and communication. Their reflective scales help them blend into bright coastal waters, estuaries, and mangrove environments by scattering sunlight, making it harder for predators to spot them. The dark bands near their fins and eyes can also confuse predators about the fish’s exact shape and movement, while helping monos recognize each other when schooling in groups. Their striking coloration is both protective and social, perfectly suited for the brackish habitats they naturally live in.