December 2011’s most popular posts!
ReefNews.eu just reported on a new multi-tester called the “AQUA-CHECK photometer” that reportedly can measure multiple water parameters with the same probe.
An Amphioxus found in Scottish waters.
These interesting and unique fish were found just off the coast of Tankerness in Orkney and has been described as “elusive” and “rarely seen”.
Your Tank, Untangled.
The Plug Hub is a cord management system that works in conjunction with a standard power strip to manage the problematic rat’s nest of power cords that can easily accumulate around a computer desk or in our case a reef tank.
A group of harbor porpoises in San Francisco Bay, photographed from the Golden Gate Bridge. Photo by William Keener of the Golden Gate Cetacean Research
The decline began back in the 1930’s around the World War II era.
Three-Rowed Sea Cucumber. Photo by LASZLO ILYES / flickr.
Read Rob Toonen’s article about sea cucumbers to learn more about their captive care.
Rockin’ around the Christmas tree!
Electric eels, as you know, produce an electrical current when they move and when they attack prey. They have been know to produce as much as 500 volts and 1 ampere of current (500 watts) in certain situations.
Squid, Belemnotheutis antiquus, drawn with its own fossilized ink. Photo by BNPS.
The squid, Belemnotheutis antiquus, was uncovered during a recent Victorian dig in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK.
Seamarc developed a new artificial reef system, the “coral trays”.
When I first read about this program, I thought it sounded very similar to the one I blogged about last week called Adopt-a-Coral as it shares a number of similar features.
The RoboSnail unit.
I love this product. Think of never having to scrape aquarium glass or acrylic again! I remember times when I would get busy, neglect cleaning, and the glass would get completely overgrown obscuring the view of my reef.
It’s not just for humans any longer. Photo by L. Mazzuca.
In their paper “Two Unusual Interactions Between a Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and a Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Hawaiian Waters” published in the journal Aquatic Mammals, researchers Deakos, Branstetter, Mazzuca, Fertl, and Mobley discuss this interesting interaction between dolphins and humpback whales just off the coast of Hawai’i.