Reef Threads Podcast #289


Find us at MACNA. We’d like to meet you.

It’s MACNA week and we’re headed to San Diego. Looking forward to meeting lots of listeners at the big show. If you can’t attend, watch us live from the show at 3:00 Pacific time Friday and Saturday and 11:00 Pacific Sunday. Download the podcast here, or subscribe to our podcasts at iTunes. Also, follow us on Twitter at reefthreads.—Gary and Christine

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Monsoon Fairy Wrasse hits the U.S. Market

Monsoon Fairy Wrasse hits the U.S. Market Monsoon Fairy Wrasse, Cirrhilabrus hygroxerus, arrives in the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbJAVg9c5k8 Kernersville, NC, August 29, 2016) — Carolina Aquatics has acquired the exclusive rights to distribute the newly discovered and described Monsoon Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus hygroxerus). The fish will be displayed publicly for the first time at the Marine Aquarium Conference of North America in San Diego September 9-11, 2016, in the Carolina Aquatics booth #334. Carolina Aquatics will be taking wholesale orders at the conference. “We are excited to be able to bring this beautiful, rare aquarium fish to the hobby,” said Kris Cline, owner of Carolina Aquatics, which has exclusive rights to distribute the fish in the United States. “This is

This Weekend: MACNA 2016!

Is everyone ready for this weekend? MANCA 2016 in San Diego is going to be a blast – talks by world-renowned scientists and aquarists such as Sanjay Joshi, Justin Credabel, Rich Ross, and Sonia Rowley, a reception Friday night and banquet Saturday night, and, of...

Reef Threads Podcast #288


An aerial view of Midway Atoll in June 2007. Photo by Burl Burlingame/Honolulu Star Bulletin, via Associated Press. Borrowed from the NY Times article.

Another week another podcast. This week’s topics include MACNA, hobby books for John Zimmermann, Al Ulrich’s wife, Chicago Field Museum research on coral bleaching, Midway Atoll marine reserve, lionfish, and the new St. Louis public aquarium. Download the podcast here, or subscribe to our podcasts at iTunes. Also, follow us on Twitter at reefthreads.—Gary and Christine

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Papahanaumokuakea Marine Monument
Obama to Create World’s Largest Marine Reserve Off Hawaii, New York Times, Julie Hirschfeld Davis

Lionfish-killing robot
Researchers are building a robotic lionfish exterminator, Sean Buckley, Engadget

St. Louis public aquarium
St. Louis to build 1 million gallon aquarium, Advanced Aquarist, Leonard Ho

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