One of the structures built by the researchers in this study. A sweetlip takes advantage of the shade.
According to research published this week in Coral Reefs by Kerry and Bellwood, large reef fish (snappers, coral trout, sweetlips, etc.)
Transgenic GloFish on a rice roll called “Stop and Glow Nigirizushi.”
When I initially saw this on The Huffington Post, I thought it was a joke. I mean, who would seriously eat these tiny GloFish® in a sushi dish?
Discosoma spp. (a, c) and examples of similar-looking scleractinians (b: Leptoseris glabra, d: Danafungia scruposa).
Corallimorpharians, better known as mushroom corals in the hobby, are closely related to scleractinian corals.
January 2012’s Most Popular Posts
As initially reported by Ret Talbot (CORAL): The 26th Hawai’i Senate legislature has started off 2012 with at least SIXTEEN new measures seeking the regulation or total ban of the aquarium trade.
The Facts About Hawaii’s Marine Aquarium Fishery
Kevin Erickson, the Director At Large for the Marine Aquarium Societies of North America (MASNA) has just notified us that MASNA has launched a new initiative, HawaiiBanFactCheck.org
A wobbegong shark slowly ingests a brown-banded bamboo shark near Great Keppel Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
In August 2011 researchers Ceccarelli and Williamson from Australia were performing a fish census just off of Great Keppel Island which is situated on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Pederson Cleaner Shrimp (Periclimenes pedersoni) flicks its long, hair-like antennae to solicit customers. Photo by LASZLO ILYES / flickr.
They look for anemones of course.
In their paper “Reef fishes use sea anemones as visual cues for cleaning interactions with shrimp” published recently in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, researchers Lindsay Huebner and Nanette Chadwick of the Auburn University’s Department of Biological Sciences explore how these tiny, unassuming shrimp are found on the reef by fish in need of a good cleaning.
Reef Threads is a podcast and blog that discusses the most interesting subjects from the various forums, blogs, and magazines supporting the reef hobby.
On this particular podcast, we all weighed in about our blogs and discussed what it is like blogging about the reefkeeping hobby in general.
Steepheaded Parrotfish. Photo by BBM Explorer, http://www.redseaexplorer.com/
Press Release
Washington, D.C. – A lawsuit was filed today in federal district court seeking greater protections from fishing for threatened coral reefs in the Caribbean.
MASNA Live Logo.
For those of you new to podcasting, MASNA Live is a monthly podcast brought to you by the Marine Aquarium Societies of North America. A typical podcast lasts for roughly an hour and you can either subscribe to their podcast through iTunes, RSS, or listen to it from their website.