by Leonard Ho | Jan 15, 2015 | Advanced Aquarist
Scientists investigating the settlement of larval Acropora millepora uncovered two neat and unexpected discoveries: 1) Acropora in cooler-than-normal (not warmer) waters made poor choices by not settling on coralline algae and 2) baby corals can actually sense and seek out where the zooxanthellae are. by Leonard Ho | Jan 13, 2015 | Advanced Aquarist
Sit fish sit. Good fish. Maybe we can't make our fish sit, but there are many tricks we can teach the fish we keep. Fish are much more capable than people have historically given them credit for. by Leonard Ho | Jan 12, 2015 | Advanced Aquarist
You may be aware of the electric light shows that some flame scallops put on. But until now, scientists didn't know how these bivalves created these brilliant visual extravaganzas (no, it's not bioluminescence as many believed) or why they did it. by Leonard Ho | Jan 9, 2015 | Advanced Aquarist
"Why am I looking at two mugshots on Advanced Aquarist?" you might ask. These two Rhodes Scholars stole a FedEx package from their neighbors porch. When they found out they had stolen live fishes, they did what any sensible person would do: flush the fishes down the toilet. by Leonard Ho | Jan 8, 2015 | Advanced Aquarist
Meet the newest formally described cichlid, Geophagus mirabilis. This lovely cichlid is thus far only known from central South America (rio Aripuanã drainage to be exact). This isolated location has been a hotspot for numerous endemic tropical fish discoveries over the past few decades. by Admin | Jan 6, 2015 | Advanced Aquarist
Found by Brian Walker, a scientist from Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center, the newly-discovered 38+ acres of rare staghorn corals give scientists new hope for the species.
