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Wackiest Aquarium Invertebrates Part 1: Shrimply Surreal

by guestauthor331121747413191reefs-com | Feb 27, 2025 | Advanced Aquarist, Invertebrates

Booty shakers, starfish torturers, swaying dancers, underwater gunslingers, and candy cane crustaceans. What do all of these have in common? They’re shrimp that you can buy at your local aquarium store!…

Monday Archives: Are wrasses the smartest fish?

by Leonard Ho | Jan 20, 2025 | Advanced Aquarist, Fish

Aquarists who keep wrasses know they are inquisitive, mischievous, and dare-we-say 'intelligent' animals. A recent research paper describes Ornate Wrasses exploiting starfish to hunt sea urchins.

Monday Archives: World’s First Simultaneous Genetic Sequencing of Host Coral and Symbiont Algae

by Admin | Nov 11, 2024 | Advanced Aquarist

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the DNA of coral with its associated zooxanthellae. By understanding the genetics of Porites australiensis and its symbiotic partner, researchers will be better able to understand coral including the important biosynthetic pathways of amino acids between coral and algae symbionts.

Monda Archives: Parenting comes at a price for male cardinalfish

by Advanced Aquarist | Feb 19, 2024 | Advanced Aquarist, Fish

Being a great dad can mean starving to protect the kids, putting up with a jealous spouse – and often, dying young. At least, if you’re a cardinalfish.

Monday Archives: Stunning imagery of pelagic mesoplankton

by Leonard Ho | Jan 29, 2024 | Advanced Aquarist

Photographer Solvin Zanki captures some of the most amazing photos of plankton we've ever seen. We share some of his amazing work. If these photos do not instill a sense of awe and wonder for the diversity of life in our oceans, we give up.

Monday Archives: For a coral, the more housekeepers the better

by Advanced Aquarist | Mar 20, 2023 | Advanced Aquarist, Corals, Invertebrates

Sedimentation is a constant problem for certain corals depending on their location on the reef. If there is too much sediment buildup within a coral, it can get buried and die. However, if it hosts enough symbionts, they can help remove a significant amount of sediment in their nightly activities.
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