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The Girl Who Cried “Shark”
This story annoys me mainly because it’s reinforcing a false perception of one of my favorite apex predators. Elissa Sursara, an “environmental activist”, claimed to have been attacked by a shark last...
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Yes! Marking My Calendar – Sir David Attenborough Returns to the Great...
Nearly six decades after he originally filmed there, Sir David Attenborough is making a reappearance at the Great Barrier Reef to film a new BBC series set to debut late next year. This is great news...
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Nearly $1.9 Million Awarded to CSUN Marine Biologists For Ocean Acidification...
Folks over at the National Science Foundation (NSF) have been quite generous with their hefty award of $1,892,911 to California State University Northridge marine biologists Robert Carpenter and Peter...
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Reefs In Art: Really Cool Octopus String Art
So a friend of mine from High School, Joseph DeBello Gaglio, delighted me the other day by leaving this lovely little gem on my doorstep! A raw oak finish studded with hundreds of steel nails make...
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Oh Boy, Breaking News: Obama to Establish the World’s Largest Ocean Reserve...
Back on January 6, 2009, President George W. Bush established the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument under the Antiquities Act of 1906. Incorporating nearly 86,888 miles within its...
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This Is Terrible News: Fire Kills Thousands of Tropical Fish in Dickson
Ugh I feel like I’ve been posting nothing but terrible news today. Maybe I’m just in a mood. This is really tragic, though. Early this Thursday morning, a fire broke out in a Dickson County tropical...
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Obama’s Expansion Action: What Does It All Mean For “Lazy” Fish
I’m not quite sure what constitutes a “lazy fish” but I guess we’re all about to find out. Yesterday, Thursday September 25, 2014, President Barack Obama took it upon himself (in lieu of Congress) to...
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Reefs in Home Decor – Connect With The Sea in Style
It’s no secret that I love to fill my beach abode with oceanic inspired goodies. My shopping excursions are ridiculously dorky and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’ve chewed your ear off more times...
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Let’s Get a Little Sexy – Hybrid Corals.
So much sexier than a Prius is the Hybrid Coral, in my opinion anyway. Like any good romance novel, the story takes place under the light of a full moon. Add the ocean salt spray and a bit of sand in...
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Hunting Done Right – Employ Slithery Minions.
UK based Cambridge University has come out with some pretty cool new research as of late, pointing at the fact that certain fishes might but forming deadly little alliances against their prey. A trout...
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Keeping the Magic Alive, Cyphastrea Combos
Long term stable combo of Seriatopora and Cyphastrea I love Cyphastrea; it is a beautiful coral, and one that I have had great success with, but one day I realized that I had been growing it for so...
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Barely There: Trace Elements in the Reef Aquarium
What are trace elements exactly and what role do they play in our reef aquariums? To put it simply, trace elements are elements that appear in very small quantities in salt water. They are vital to all...
View ArticleFincasters Episode 44: Long Fin Clownfish
The long-finned clownfish made a big splash at MACNA 2014 in Denver. Fincasters interviews Matt Carberry of Sustainable Aquatics, which is developing the fish for the retail market. More: Fincasters...
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Convicted Former Idaho Aquarium Director Wants To Consult On New Aquarium...
Convicted and sentenced for illegal trafficking in 2013, former Idaho Aquarium director Ammon Covino now wants to get back into the aquarium business. I have written about the story on reefs.com here....
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Reefs in Art: Sculptural Whales and Elements Edition
Colossal always manages to deliver when it comes to reef art. I love it all. 29 (aka, my favorite number) year old Chinese sculptor Wang Ruilin put together this dreamy collection, appropriately titled...
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Alternative Uses For Reef Glue: Sealing Open Wounds 101
Welp, my cat literally tore me a new one today, slicing through a few of my dermal layers down to the muscle. Ouch, to say the least. Not really in the mood to venture over to my local walk in clinic...
View ArticleOMG! But How Will I Ever Catch That Octopus, Then?
One of my goals in life to make my passing an easy event is to own an octopus in the very near future. Also, another one of my new favorite words is “betentacled”. Like a fancy hybrid of...
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Well, Who Doesn’t Love Calamari?
While this is falsely entitled to suggest this is the first time Octopus Cannibalism has been caught on film (National Geographic has this wild, violent video from 2010 of an octopus completely...
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All is Fair in Cephalopod Love and War
Scientists over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke University have taken interest in the remarkable ability of the octopus to camouflage instantaneously whenever it so pleases. Now...
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Finding Beauty in Tragedy: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
As the search resumed on September 22, 2014, researchers have been desperately scraping across the open floor in hopes of finding the slightest trace of the mysteriously vanished Boeing 777, carrying...
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