This Heliofungia actiniformis has coloration like Catalaphyllia jardinei. Photo by Julian Sprung.
Published this week in Coral Reefs, researchers Hoeksema and de Voogd report in their paper “On the run: free-living mushroom corals avoiding interaction with sponges” about this observation of Heliofungia fralinae, commonly known in our hobby as the plate coral.
A yeti crab uses the hairs on its claws to farm bacteria.
One of the many frogfish featured in “Frogfish City”
Back in May I covered a number of interesting frogfish videos. Today this one showed up in my RSS reader and I just had to share it with everyone.
This common sight may soon be a thing of the past: Encrusting coralline algae on the glass of Mike Giangrasso’s reef tank
Researchers Xu Deng, Lena Mammen, Hans-Jürgen Butt, and Doris Vollmer might have found an answer.
November 2011 Cover
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Sargocentron microstoma (smallmouth squirrelfish) in Acropora formosa (staghorn coral)
Reefbuilders reported yesterday that the research paper “Effects of phosphate on growth and skeletal density in the scleractinian coral Acropora muricata: A controlled experimental approach” by Dunn, Sammarco, and LaFleur Jr was just published in the January 2012 issue of the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.
Chromis viridis damselfish. Photo by Andreas März / Flickr.
The paper “Rapid transgenerational acclimation of a tropical reef fish to climate change” published in the journal Nature Climate Change yesterday brings to light an interesting finding: our current estimate of tropical fish susceptibility to increased ocean temperatures may be underestimating the ability of these fish to cope with and thrive in warmer ocean waters.
Tigger-Feast: a new, premium feed from Reef Nutrition
Reef Nutrition (and Advanced Aquarist sponsor) just announced their latest premium feed offering this weekend. It’s called Tigger-Feast and it’s a highly concentrated mixture of Tigriopus californicus copepods for your fish, hard corals, non-photosynthetic corals, and other invertebrates.
Lionfish. Photo by Serge Melki / Flickr.
Ciguatoxins are a class of chemicals that can be found in certain fish that cause ciguatera in people that eat them.
The toxin is produced by a dinoflagellate called Gambierdiscus toxicus and is typically found in the skin, head, eggs, and internal organs of large fish like groupers, wrasses, triggerfish, and unfortunately lionfish.
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