A strikingly patterned seahorse discovered by a fish collector in Hawaii. Image courtesy Pacific Island Aquatics A very unusual seahorse was recently collected by an aquarium diver in Hawaii. …
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CORAL Featured Video: The Tiniest Seahorses
A fabulous must-see video by CORAL photographers Denise Nielsen Tackett and Larry Tackett posted by Wakatobi Dive Resort and narrated by Denise herself.
Includes never-before-seen live birth of pygmy seahorses.…
The Classroom Ocean – A Growing Program
The Reef Conservation Society’s Tanks for Schools program was featured in the July/August 2013 issue of CORAL Magazine. This program was started at Williamsport High School in Pennsylvania under the leadership of Lawrence Flint, a Physics and Chemistry teacher at Williamsport as well as the Vice President of Education for the Reef Conservation Society.…
Club Impacts Far and Wide
The Reef Conservation Society’s Tanks for Schools program was featured in the July/August 2013 issue of CORAL Magazine. This program was started at Williamsport High School under the leadership of Lawrence Flint, a Physics and Chemistry teacher at Williamsport as well as the Vice President of Education for the Reef Conservation Society.…
CORAL Video: Spectacular Softies Reef
No music and no Acropora, but this video shows an exceptional home “softie” coral tank with some huge, decades-old colonies. Watch for the Genicanthus pair that appears to be thriving in these surroundings.…
An Aquarist You Should Know – Interview With David Watson
Aquarist and first time CORAL Magazine contributor David Watson, DVM, at home in his fishroom, November 2012.
One of the most exciting stories in the next issue of CORAL Magazine is that of David Watson’s at-home breeding success with the Red-stripe Cardinalfish, Ostorhinchus margaritophorus (syn.…
Global Reef Expedition: Canopies of Coral
Fiji’s reefs house some 333 species of corals of all shapes, sizes and colors, many of which we’ve seen in Lau Province. We’ve examined many reef types, some which fringe the shore (fringing reefs), some in the center of a lagoon (lagoonal patch reefs), and some that form a barrier between the open ocean and the lagoon (barrier reefs). …
Arrested by the Tang Police: I Refuse to Confess!
The Poster Child of the Tang Police: Paracanthurus hepatus is actually very site-specific and not range as widely over the reef as do other tang species.
Most marine aquarists who frequent online message boards have heard the term “Tang Police” (abbreviated here as TP).…
Micro Reef Builders in Their Final Century?
Most are smaller than a pinhead and are largely unseen by humans who don’t have a magnifying lens in hand, but foraminiferans or “forams” are found in countless numbers on the world’s reefs, often forming part of the matrix of sandy substrate that can fuse into hard areas of calcium carbonate.…
Science Happens: New Caribbean Deepwater Blenny Found
Sometimes science just happens, as when a new species turns up by happenstance, hope, and a generous measure of luck.
A beautiful new species of blenny has been discovered as unintended bycatch during targeted specimen catching off Curaçao at about 550 ft (157-167 m) depth as a part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP).…