Caribbean Reef Octopus Hunting at Night
Good morning faithful ones, I have a spectacular Caribbean Reef Octopus crawling over a colony of delicate fire corals in search of something to eat for your viewing pleasure today. Most night dives...
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NASA’s CORAL Mission Will Use Airborne Instrument To Survey Entire Reef Systems
NASA is launching a new three year field expedition which will study the world’s coral reefs with advanced technology and in greater detail than ever before. Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL)...
View ArticlePlans for underwater ‘Oceanscraper’ Revealed
Indeed, the future of human habitation, whether through choice or catastrophe, is often imagined (in popular culture at least) as being beyond Earth’s orbit. Sub-aquatic living still seems, perversely...
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Fish Stay Together Through Communication
According to a study conducted by the University of Auckland, researchers have found that fish stay safe from predators by using communication with other fish to maintain group cohesion. Scientists...
View ArticleRock Beauty Angelfish: a Finicky Feeder Best Left in the Sea
Rock Beauty Angelfish (Holacanthus tricolor)On one of my earliest dives down in the Florida Keys back in the 1990s, a gorgeous yellow and black angelfish caught my attention as I drifted over a section...
View ArticleFossil of Massive Marine Crocodile Found on Edge of Sahara Desert
Paleontologists have discovered the fossil remains of the world’s biggest ocean-dwelling crocodile buried on the edge of the Sahara, a creature that was twice the size of anything seen today. Named...
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Reef Kids: Indoor Sand Castles
credit: jeweledrose.com Do these long, cold months of winter have you and your little one dreaming of sunny days at the beach? Bring a little of that summer fun home with this recipe for sandy beach...
View ArticleThe Home Aquarium Redesigned With Scandinavian Style
Swedish designer Charles Törnros set out to address what he perceived as flaws in the design of current desk top aquariums and achieved a result which is elegant, minimalistic and also customizable to...
View ArticleBaby Bottlenose Dolphin
Good morning from Curacao. So I have heard that everyone and their mother is now sick on the island with this stupid crud, I’m going on a week and a half of fevers, coughing and nose blowing....
View ArticleTwo New Products from Two Little Fishies
Julian Sprung has released two new products labelled as “ReMag” and “CorAffix Little Pro” under the Two Littles Fishies brand. CorAffix Little Pro comes in a 59 ml squeeze bottle with pin cap to...
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What’s the Deal With Plastic Microbeads?
The marine conservation lobby has been celebrating a small victory of late, with the banning of plastic microbeads in the US, but why are such small objects so troublesome? NOAA Marine Debris Program....
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New Insights Into Corallochaetodon Evolution
An interspecies pair of C. trifasiatus (left) and C. melapterus (right) seen at Socotra. Credit: Tane Sinclair-Taylor In recent years, there has been a flurry of published research into the causes...
View ArticleAre You in Tankmate Aggression Denial?
Sometimes external stressors can cause aggression amongst tankmatesFish wounds and injuries can result from a variety of different influences, with tankmate aggression being among the more commonplace....
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A Fishbit Follow-up
I’ve been playing with the Fishbit monitor now for a while. What I’ve found is a straightforward, easy to use device that could certainly help beginner and intermediate reef keepers monitor their...
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The Banggai Cardinalfish: Threatened with Extinction
For some time, I’ve held the belief that if the aquarium trade didn’t invest in current, real-world data about the aquarium fisheries’ role on wild fish populations, sooner or later a beloved aquarium...
View ArticleReef Threads Podcast #258
Just some favia It was a much longer break than we planned, but we’re back for more podcasting. This week it’s new tanks, growing sponge, coral harvesting for cosmetics, and cleaner-wrasse myths....
View ArticleUnboxing the Jellyfish Art Cylinder Nano Aquarium
Recently we posted an article about Jellyfish Art and their Kickstarter program which features the newly released Jellyfish Cylinder nano aquarium. Having never kept Jellyfish, my curiosity was...
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The Kaleidoscopic Platypodiella Clown Crabs
Platypodiella spectabilis Credit: Ellen Muller With all due respect to Neoliomera, perhaps the most coveted carcinological treasure to be found on coral reefs are the Clown Crabs of the genus...
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The art of keeping jellyfish
For a long time, aquarists have wanted to keep jellyfish. In the past, it seemed like an impossible feat. Not because jellyfish are particularly sensitive to aquarium life, but because their jelly like...
View ArticleJason Fox Lemon Lime Pocillopora
Jason Fox Lemon Lime Pocillopora Pocillopora corals have been in the US aquarium trade for about as long as SPS corals have been coming into to the US. They are generally one of the more easy corals...
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