The Peace Reef Project 

Live rock aquaculturists Roger Gillman and Peter Wolfson have decided to use their Florida mariculture site for a grander purpose. They have set out to install the world's only artificial reef structure in the shape of a peace sign.

Everything is better in slow-mo

Michael Bay and John Woo are right. Everything looks cooler in slow motion especially when accompanied by dramatic music. It also doesn't hurt that the huge reef tank looks great. Feeding reef fish has never felt so epic.

Reef fish find it’s too hot to swim

We all know the feeling, it’s a hot summer afternoon and you have no appetite and don’t want to do anything apart from lay on the couch. A team of researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University has shown that ocean warming may make some large reef fish feel the same way.

Goby, meet Shrimp. Hello there.

The first time you meet your soul-mate is a seminal, beautiful experience (usually). This is just as true for the relationship between a watchman goby and pistol shrimp - a well known symbosis whose "first date" is rarely documented.

Axolotls are real life gremlins

Axolotls are amphibians often kept by aquarists because they remain in their adorable juvenile form for their entire natural lives ... unless they come in contact with secret elixirs that can change them into little monsters. I know. It's beginning to feel like Halloween week all over again, but we assure you these topics are just a coincidence.