We have all heard of hybrid tangs, crosses between achilles and other species from the same area that have features resembling both parents, but the discovery of hybrid sharks is quite a different matter altogether. The reason for this is that tangs, and most other...
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When Convenience Kills: The Perils of Powerstrips.
photo credit: Melissa Venable Recently a friend of mine had a near miss, an almost complete tank wipe out due entirely to a powerstrip. This was a potentially disastrous situation that was totally avoidable had things been set up slightly different. After this event,...
Sex on the reef
We all know that fish have the odd ability to change sex, pretty much at will. The prime example of this is the common clown fish, where the dominant male changes to become a female. This is referred to as protandry while the ability to change from female to male is...
Death of Coral in the Keys linked to human waste run-off.
In a recent study, published in a top scientific journal, a group of researchers from Florida and Georgia have documented damage to sensitive Elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) from bacteria contained in human wastes. In the paper by Sutherland et al, published in PLOS...
The Coral Restoration Foundation: Rebuilding the Reefs
Recently I had the pleasure of meeting and talking to Ken Nedimyer, a former coral wholesaler and online retailer who is now President of the Coral Restoration Foundation- an organization dedicated to the repopulation of the reefs in the Florida Keys. A task that...
Keeping Cool in the Heat
Living in Oklahoma right now is no fun, for the last 30 days we have been well over the 100F mark and there is no end in sight to the heat. While my house AC is coping, and my chiller is doing a fine job of holding my display at 80F I find myself wondering what can...