Whelks, Anemones, and Sea Urchins I am back to continue with my posting after an unexpected absence due to bodily self-decomposition. A word to the wise, don’t get old. Or if you do, don’t let your body know. …
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Can unusual suspects reform the aquarium livestock trade?
Opinion By Ret Talbot Excerpt from CORAL, May/June 2013 I was having a conversation last night with a person who knows his way around the marine aquarium livestock trade and hobby. We were discussing the future of both trade and hobby in light of the increasing number of potential restrictions to keeping fishes and other marine animals.…
CORAL Featured Video: Shane Canellis’ SPS Reef
Here’s a very nice SPS reef with thriving corals in a 4x2x2 footprint. (Approximately 120 gallons or 450 L, 120 x 60 x 60 cm.) Interesting sound track is a bonus. Credit: Shane Canellis | YouTube “You can find more info on the tank at www.masa.asn.au…
“Fishzilla” Loose in Central Park Lake
Peaceful Harlem Meer has long been a place to cast a fly or a worm-baited hook in hopes of catching something in the panfish category—yellow perch, small bass, and crappies—but several fishermen have been reporting surprise or downright terror when they have latched into toothy gamefish with pugnacious attitudes and mouthsfull of razor-sharp teeth.…
ESA Testimony of Christopher P. Jury
Testimony for listing 66 coral species under the Endangered Species Act
In principle, I find that listing many of the proposed coral species under the ESA is warranted, is based on the best available science, and is of value.…
CORAL Featured Video – Conch vs Hermit Crabs
Fascinating video of so-called Horse Conch, Triplofusus giganteus, besieged by hermit crabs. Not a true conch, this large snail is a carnivore and will consume other snails and cannibalize members of its own species.…
Comments on Endangered Species Act and Corals
16 Apr, 2013 Re: Listing of 66 Reef-Building Coral Species; Reclassification of Elkhorn Acropora palmata and Staghorn Acropora cervicornis
I had been following the proposed listing for several years. …
Open Letter to CORAL Readers from MASNA
CORAL received this letter from attorney Murray Camp in Dallas regarding the proposed listing of stony corals on the Endangered Species List. Re: Proposed Listing Determinations for 82 Reef-Building Coral Species; Docket No. 0911231415-2625-02; 77 Fed. Reg. 73219...
Featured CORAL Video: Reef Glows in Actinic Light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1ik_SeNrmU “Stunning colors of a coral garden in reef aquarium under actinic lights.” Video was shot on Sony HDR-XR150
Open Season on Hawaii’s Marine Aquarium Collectors
White-spotted Puffer, Arothron hispidus, nuzzles the photographer’s camera on a reef off the Big Island of Hawaii. Image: Brocken Ingaglory/GNU. 2013 Promises to be a potentially dccisive year in the history of Hawaii’s marine ornamental fisheries By Ret Talbot A...