French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created Local River, a concept for a domestic “refrigerator-aquarium” that breeds freshwater fish for eating and grows vegetables at the same time. [ via: Dezeen ] Vegetables growing in floating pots would help purify the water by removing nitrates and other minerals.

Curious creature caught off Keahole Point The animal, dubbed an “octosquid,” is found off the Big Isle By Brittany P. Yap / byap@starbulletin.com It’s a squid, it’s an octopus, it’s … a mystery from the deep. What appears to be a half-squid, half-octopus specimen found off Keahole Point on the Big Island remains unidentified today […]

One of the most photographed fish at Aquarama 2007 is also one of the show’s most expensive – a platinum arowana with a mortgage-inducing price tag. The fish is an Osteoglossum species from South America, rather than the usual Scleropages from Asia, and is owned by Singapore-based Dragon fish breeder Aro Dynasty. Unlike most Osteoglossum, […]

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