https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G-OVrI9x8Zs The folks at Backyard Brains, known for their Spikerbox that can help you record and see neural activity, and researchers at at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA have applied the...
Biologists from The Florida Aquarium, Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Sciences,  Moody Gardens, Disney’s The Seas, and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium have gathered at the Coral Restoration Foundation’s facility in the Florida Keys to continue to expand...
It took me a long time to purchase the three volume set of taxonomic goodness 'Corals of the World' by Veron because the price tag scared me but since I bit the bullet three years ago, I have been referencing those books regularly. Now, that three volume set has a...
The Marine Breeding Initiative's 2012 workshop is next weekend, so the timing to share a pic of a captive breeding success story. Metasepia spp have long been thought of as one of the ultimate aquarium display animals. Their colors and patterns that continually change...
http://vimeo.com/44687825 Ok, now that that attention grabbing headline is out of the way, here is what happened. A lady in Korea taste tested a part of a whole parboiled squid, and had pain in her gums, tongue and cheek. Turns out par boiling doesn't diminish the...
Too cute -  of a bunch of tiny octopus paralarvae hatched from an un described, small egged species at the Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Sciences. If you want to learn more about the current sucesses and challenges of cephalopod breeding, head on out...
In anticipation of the MBI workshop coming up on July 28th in Bloomfield Hills, MI, I have been breeding everything I can get my hands on - including the dwarf seahorse Hippocampus zosterae pictured above. These little seahorses max out at about an inch, and both...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wuWDex5mh5Y File this one in the "I don't know if I buy it" category. A French scientist, Pierre Calleja, claims to have developed a prototype algae driven street or room light that needs no external...
Just hatched Wunderpus photogenicus paralarvae. So super cool, laid in captivity at Roy Caldwell's lab at UCB, and yes, I am trying really hard to keep them alive and through settlement (though the odds of success are traditionally roughly if not equal to zero). For...
The last year has seen a lot of heated discussion and possible legislation regarding the Marine Aquarium trade. In these discussions everyone seems to have data on the numbers of fishes that move through the trade, but the sources of that data often somehow seems...