
MASNA Board of Directors positions available
.The following post just showed up on MASNA’s Facebook page: MASNA is looking to fill two Board of Director positions. These would be for the remainder... Read more.

Goldfish “living art” exhibit
Art Aquarium 2013Art Aquarium 2013 runs between July 13-September 23 at Nihonbashi Mitsui Hall in Tokyo. This year’s theme is called “Cool... Read more.

New Approach to Measuring Coral Growth Offers Valuable Tool for Reef Managers
A massive (in size and growth pattern) brain coral, Siderastrea siderea. Photo credit: Ilsa B. Kuffner (USGS)From the USGS newsroom A new more... Read more.

Time lapse video of complete reef tank tear-down
Large aquarium tear-downs are no small undertaking. Keith compresses nearly four hours of hard work dismantling his tank into this two minute video. ... Read more.

Bacteria provide corals with much-needed nitrogen
Look REALLY closely and try to find the zooxanthallae and bacteria. Photo by Arnar ValdimarssonThe Intricate Interwoven Tapestry of Life Just last week,... Read more.

The big ones live deep
.“We expected some populations of lionfish at that depth, but their numbers and size were a surprise. … This was kind of an ‘Ah hah!’ moment.... Read more.

Corals cozy up with bacterial buddies
KAUST-based coral scientist Christian Voolstra gathered samples of the coral species Stylophora pistillata. Earlier sampling methods ground up and mixed together... Read more.

Seeing starfish: The missing link in eye evolution?
The starfish compound eye (red cups) is seen at the tip of the arm. Each red cup corresponds to a single optical unit, ommatidium, in an arthropod compound eye. ... Read more.

Faster fragging with light-cured cyanoacrylates?
Faster fragging with light-cured cyanoacrylates?While researching UV curable resins the other night, I happened upon an interesting product on Solarez’s... Read more.