Monthly Archives: September 2014

By Leonard Ho Click through to see the images. The BBC’s upcoming Great Barrier Reef documentary will be comprised of three one-hour long chapters and should broadcast sometime in 2015. Almost six decades have elapsed since he last filmed there. With all the technological advancement Read more here…

By Chris Aldrich We are under attack; our hobby is under attack. We’re currently facing legislation that could put an end to our hobby as we know it. And no, I’m not sensationalizing the situation. Please don’t make the mistake of thinking you and your Read more here…

By Leonard Ho Click through to see the images. Background In 2012, the environmental activist group The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned NMFS to list seven pomacentrids (damselfish and anemonefish) under protection of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). These species are: Amphiprion percula Chromis atripectoralis Read more here…

By Leonard Ho Click through to see the images. Earlier this year, a study led by Dr. Tim Wijgerde concluded red light actively represses chlorophyll a and zooxanthellae growth in Stylophora pistillata whereas blue light appears to do the exact opposite. Dana Riddle also continued Read more here…

By David Bowers 412 gallon reef display in Dave Bowers’ marine lab classroom In the first two parts of this series, we talked about how ozone can function as a powerful tool in keeping your reef aquarium water very clear, how it can boost your Read more here…

By Richard Ross Click through to see the images. Back in March, I wrote about Chad Vossen feeding a platinum clownfish that was to be culled to juvenile Dwarf Cuttlefish, Sepia bandnesis, and talked about how clownfish destined to be culled might be a great Read more here…

By Jeff Kurtz The Colorado Convention Center was home to MACNA 2014 Denver, Colorado, situated a mile above sea level, might seem like an unusual host city for a conference focused exclusively on marine aquaria, but this year’s Marine Aquarium Conference of North America (MACNA), Read more here…

By Leonard Ho Click through to see the images. Inspired by James Fatherree’s wonderful mixed reef aquarium we published earlier this week, we decided to look for other examples of great reef aquariums housing a mixture of soft and stony corals. While pure stony (mostly Read more here…

By Albert B Ulrich III How to feed Corals in a Reef Aquarium Feeding the corals in our reef aquariums is both an art and science. Marine biologists study corals in their natural environment, under “perfect” conditions. We use their research findings to provide our Read more here…

By Shane Graber Click through to see the images. From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Coral organisms use minuscule appendages to control their environment, stirring up water eddies to bring nutrients Conventional wisdom has long held that corals — whose calcium-carbonate skeletons form the foundation Read more here…