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Monday Archives: Gorgeous red carpet anemone hosting many clownfish
For those of you that have been following Kenneth Wingerter’s excellent Clownfish series or simply love the symbiotic relationship between clowns and anemones, the video will interest you.…

Monda Archives: Parenting comes at a price for male cardinalfish

Small eyes look out from the safety of a parent’s mouth: but do cardinalfishes pay the price for good parenting? A male brooding Cheilodipterus sp. Photo: Rudie Kuiter.
Press Release
A survival strategy that has been a triumphant success for cardinalfishes for going on 50 million years could come unstuck under rapid global warming, scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University have found.

Monday Archives: For a coral, the more housekeepers the better
We’ve seen how Fungiid corals can inflate and deflate themselves in order to combat sedimentation. However, other corals aren’t as lucky as these Fungiids and they need help from outside sources.

Monday Archives: The Roving Lives of Reef Fish

Rivulated Parrotfish, Scarus rivulatus, taken at Myanmar-Mergui Archipel. Photo by divemecressi / Flickr.
In their paper “How far do schools of roving herbivores rove? A case study using Scarus rivulatus” scientists monitored the rivulated parrotfish (pictured above) to better understand its range and schooling behavior.

Monday Archives: Tiny grazers play key role in marine ecosystem health

Monday Archives: New species of sea worm named after Yoda, there is.

Coral Morphologic 2

We are pleased to present Coral Morphologic 2, an album of nine records inspired by the corals’ cosmic ability to synchronize their lives to Earth’s daily rotation upon its axis, the Moon’s monthly trip around Earth, and Earth’s yearly orbit of the Sun.…

Feature Aquarium: The 335 gallon “Tall Reef” of Brad Syphus

15 Years in the Making
My name is Brad Syphus; many of you know me by Bradleyj. Christmas of 1999 is when this all started. My wife and two daughters decided to buy me a 29 gallon starter freshwater tank.…

Featured Aquarium: The Reef of Bruce York

I would like to thank Advanced Aquarist for selecting my tank as a Featured Aquarium and for all of the fantastic information they provide in their on line magazine. I have found so much valuable information in the Advanced Aquarist articles.…




