A new, fast, non-lethal method for cyanide detection in marine fish. Is it a game changer?
Amphiprion clarkii, the model fish used in this cyanide detection study. Photo by Elias Levy / Flickr.Mass death by cyanide fishing Cyanide fishing is... Read more.
Hawai’i Undersea Research Laboratory launches deep-sea animal IDÂ guide
Anglerfish, Chaunax umbrinus.As one of the few institutions that creates detailed logs of all video produced with the submersibles, HURL has created... Read more.
New purple crab found on Palawan Island in the Philippines
Purple Crab, Insulamon palawanense, found on Palawan Island. Photo courtesy Henrik Freitag.“The particular violet coloration might just have evolved... Read more.
CoralVue to debut new 4-stage 100 GPDÂ RODI
CoralVue’s upcoming 4-stage 100 GPD RODI unitCoralVue has been hard at work putting together a new RODI unit for their product line. As mentioned,... Read more.
Could your next protein skimmer be 3DÂ printed?
Picture this: It’s late Saturday night and you hear a noise coming from your fish room. Upon investigation, you find your return pump is buzzing loudly and... Read more.
Coral Reef Winners & Losers in a Warmer World
If susceptible table and branching species are replaced by mound-shaped corals, it would leave fewer nooks and crannies where fish shelter and feed.“Coral... Read more.
New snake eel species named for diver that discovered it
New eel species: Peri’s Snake Eel (Myrichthys paleracio)Photo by Mark Atwell.The new species of snake eel is now know as Peri’s Snake Eel... Read more.
Study Shows Adaptive Capacity of Reef Corals to Climate Change May Be Widespread
Ph.D. student Rachel Silverstein analyzed 39 coral species from DNA collected in the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean collected over the last 15 years.A new... Read more.
Favia coral receives virus therapy for white plague disease
Close-up of a Favia sp. coral. Photo by Nicolai Johannesen / Flickr.Phage therapy is the use of bacteria-specific viruses (called bacteriophages) for... Read more.
Preventing home invasions means fighting side-by-side for coral-dwelling crabs and shrimp
Alpheus lottini, a snapping shrimp.The same holds true, researchers have recently learned, when different species of crabs (genus Trapezia) and snapping... Read more.