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Newport Aquarium shares images of what is believed to be the first Shark Ray...
In a historic biological achievement, Newport Aquarium announced Wednesday that Sweet Pea, the first documented shark ray to breed in a controlled environment, gave birth to seven pups on January...
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Study Shows Common UV Blocker May Create Coral Zombies
Researchers at Haereticus Environmental Laboratory in Virginia exposed baby corals in a laboratory to different concentrations of BP-2, which is found in hundreds of personal-care products. Increased...
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Use Of Anti-Shark Device On The Rise With Surfers
A rise of recent shark attacks is not stopping swimmers or surfers from getting in the warm waters around the Hawaiian island. In Maui waters last year, there were eight shark attacks. Statewide, there...
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Blue-Light Corals, Blue Light Photography, Corals
Good morning all, feeling a bit sick today and will most likely be headed back home right after I send this out. Remember a few months ago when Nicole Sawyer was here from ABC News doing a story for...
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Researchers Discover Rare New Species of Deep-Diving Whale
Researchers have identified a new species of mysterious beaked whale based on the study of seven animals stranded on remote tropical islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans over the past 50 years....
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Stunning High Res Photos of Segrest Farms’ Aberrant Moorish Idol
Yesterday, we broke news on the amazing aberrant moorish idol that popped up in the holding tanks of Segrest Farms. Unfortunately, the images in that post were not the best quality, but Segrest...
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Copper Treatment For Marine Ich
Copper treatment is a very effective way to rid and prevent Marine Ich. In a Fish Only system you can dose the display tank with it, but do not expect to ever keep a snail, shrimp, coral, anemone, or...
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New Species: Golden Hawkfish
A new species image and profile has been added to the Digital-Reefs galleries! Paracirrhites xanthus, commonly known as the Golden Hawkfish, is a rare relative of the more commonly encountered Arc-eye...
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Reef Threads Podcast #167
http://cdn.wso.net/reefthreads/podcasts/rt167.mp3 What’s your preference, species or community fish tank?We’re back again with the Reef Evangelist evangelizing to six continents. This week’s topics...
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The cuttlefish, the fascinating cephalopod that always captures the visitor’s eye in an aquarium, may be the answer to many a medical problem. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have made an...
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Acropora gemmifera Documented for First Time in West Hawaii
It seems that in recent years, most of the news coming out of Hawaii has been fairly bad. More often than not, we find ourselves discussing how the aquarium trade gets unfairly targeted by misguided...
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Coral Letters, Symmetrical Brain Coral, Stony Corals
Good morning friends, I have some cool example of “Natural Coral Letters” for your viewing pleasure today that were recently photographed just outside on our Substation reef with a 105 macro lens. What...
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Bacteria Infused Life Rock on the Way from CaribSea
The substrate connoisseurs are back with a brand new product. CaribeSea recently announced their Life Rock, an an aragonite based live rock substitute that is infused with live bacteria and made to...
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Large Study Shows Pollution Impact on Coral Reefs, and Offers Solution
One of the largest and longest experiments ever done to test the impact of nutrient loading on coral reefs today confirmed what scientists have long suspected — that this type of pollution from sewage,...
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Reefs Magazine – New Issue Online Now!
In the Fall 2009 issue of Reefs Magazine we introduced a number of articles that revolved one way or another around difficulties that serious aquarists encountered with their systems. We facetiously...
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Marine Biologists Unmask Species Diversity in Coral Reefs
Rising water temperatures due to climate change are putting coral reefs in jeopardy, but a surprising discovery by a team of marine biologists suggests that very similar looking coral species differ in...
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Lyretail Anthias: Ain’t That The Truth
So you want a fish who will brighten up your day? If you have a 6 foot or larger tank like a 125 gallon you are open to a type fish that can actually benefit your reef’s community in a way you would...
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Why Don’t Aquarists Support Captive Breeding
It would seem that the recent musings of Scott Fellman, longtime figurehead in the marine aquarium hobby and co-owner of Unique Corals, on captive bred fish have really struck a nerve. In a recent...
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Review: Little Ocean Frag Racks and Plugs
After several months of growth and the occasional disturbance to our aquascape, we recently had chance to round-up some of the various fragments that had naturally ended up lying around on the...
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Captive Bred Bandensis Cuttles Now Available!
Today Live Aquaria announced that they are now offering captive bred Bandensis Cuttlefish, courtesy of the master cuttle breeder, Laura Birenbaum from Reefgen. These cuttles have been missing from...
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