Coral Naming Continued: Confer

I received a lot of feedback from my coral naming rant, some positive, but much of it was aggressively negative. So, I decided the best course of action would be a follow up that gives an example and clarifies some things.…

A case for automation

It seems to me that we hear a lot about automation disasters, but not so much about automation successes. That makes sense because disasters tend to stick with us when we hear about them, and we just don’t talk about everyday successes because well, they are...

Biodiversity

Biodiversity.  I am fascinated by this.  I also think it is a cool word.  But for us aquarists it is restricted to marine animals, some good (for our tanks) and some bad (for our tanks).  All animals are good for something, at least they think...

Coral Naming: A Rant and a Plea

I am a third generation orchid enthusiast. My great grandfather established one of the earliest commercial orchid greenhouses in the United States. At that time, large blooming Cattleya species formed the basis of corsages for decades in the early twentieth...