I've spotted this awesome image while browsing through Australia official Facebook page. It's a juvenile Harlequin Tusk Wrasse (Lienardella fasciata) photographed in Australia's Gold Coast Waters Harlequin Tusk Wrasse is an awesome-looking fish from West Indo-Pacific region. It has bold [...]
Earlier this year, the Knight Foundation awarded Coral Morphologic a $150,000 matching grant for a collaborative multimedia project (with the Miami Science Museum) to be installed in terminals and waiting areas at Miami International Airport. The exhibitions will showcase corals as living art [...]
How much are Hawai‘i’s coral reefs worth to you, and how much would you be willing to invest to protect and restore them? A recent survey commissioned by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and conducted by Stanford University in collaboration with the University of [...]
It’s been more than two weeks since I posted news of the first settlement of a Liopropoma bass at the Long Island Aquarium. I know at least a few of you are eager for an update, but there really hasn’t been anything new to report…until now. At day 69, post-hatch, the first of the [...]
Colin Foord (of Coral Morphologic) gives a TEDxMIA talk titled: "A Hybrid Future - The Corals of Miami." In his talk, he describes a super-hardy, naturally-occuring hybrid of Acropora cervicornis and A.palmata found in the urban waterways of [...]
We are excited to announce that the latest edition of the Advanced Aquarist book series is now available. This volume covers January through June 2011 and is currently available from CreateSpace and [...]
Blennywatcher.com shared a great video of an undescribed Callogobius sp. goby from Indonesia. Not only is this species tiny - the goby in the video is less than 10mm (0.4 inches) - but it also exhibits fascinating if not bizarre behavior. Watch the video after the [...]
This isn't the first time that a Rising Tide organized cross-institutional collaborative breeding project has grabbed headlines this year, but this may be the biggest proof-of-concept to-date. The image above shows the larval development of Heniochus diphreutes, the Schooling Bannerfish, to 37 [...]
