By Richard Ross Researchers from the California Academy of Sciences have been visiting an area called the Verde Island Passage off the coast of Batangas Province on Luzon Island, Philippines for almost 20 years. Research by scientists during that period suggested that...

By Richard Ross Collecting, Getting Stuff Home and New Discoveries https://player.vimeo.com/video/36865036 Researchers from the California Academy of Sciences have been visiting the Verde Island Passage area off the coast of Batangas Province on Luzon Island,...

By Richard Ross and Matt Wandell When we booked our flights to Kwajalein, we really didn’t know much about the atoll except that it was part of the Marshall Islands, that the underwater life was supposed to be spectacular, and that the US had done nuclear testing in...

By Richard Ross In the last installment we talked about the role anecdotal evidence and logical misunderstandings play in how we make decisions about reefkeeping. In this installment, we’ll look at how and why manufacturers make claims about their products, why you...

By Richard Ross   "Are you sure that that thing is true, or did someone just tell it to you?" - They Might Be Giants Reefkeeping is as much an art as it is a science. There is so much that we don’t understand about what actually goes on inside our boxes of water...

By Rich Ross and Ret Talbot Most marine aquarium hobbyists purchase animals for their tanks without much thought to those animals’ origins. This is understandable since most local fish stores and online retailers don’t make that kind of information easily available to...