By Turan Saul I guess you can say I should have seen it coming. All the signs were there. Ten years ago, my boyfriend, we’ll call him Josh for the purposes of this article, decided to start a salt-water aquarium. It sounded like a good idea. I grew up near the water,...

This reef system was set up as the main display in my store Greenwich Aquaria. The original philosophy behind the tank was to keep it very simple. I’m not much of a gadget person, so I didn’t want any controllers or reactors etc. The concept behind the rockwork (in my...

by Julian DiIorio I’ve always had a unique interest in marine life and animals in general. It grew to a time when tide pools fascinated me to the point where I didn’t care about the boardwalk's fun rides and games. Back then I felt alone in my fascination, but back...

By Amanda Davidson Two fables based on the horseshoe crab migration as witnessed in May, this year of our Common Era 2012, on the beaches of Delaware known as Bowers and Slaughter, by none other than me, your humble (though some would say blaspheming) scribe, knowing...

By Dr. Kate Rawlinson Corals are central in many marine food webs, with numerous invertebrates and vertebrates predating on them. Coral-eating invertebrates outnumber their fish counterparts nearly 3 to 1 [1,2]. In the wild, most small animals that live and feed on...

By Drew Wham Whether it’s the scientific name or the variety name of a particular coral, reef aquarists want to be able to identify what they have in their tanks. The identity of a coral offers critical information. What’s This One Called? Members of the same species...

By Aileen Wilson There are direct flights from New York City to Reykjavik, and direct flights from Edinburgh to Reykjavik so three trips to teach at Iceland Academy of the Arts have included holidays with family from Scotland. The Golden Circle bus tour took my...