by AquaNerd | Aug 25, 2016 | Aquaculture, Conservation, Fish, Invertebrates, Reef, Science, Technology
August 23, 2016 – Los Angeles – Quality Marine is proud to announce the arrival of Aquacultured Royal Grammas from the Batavia Coast Maritime Institute (BCMI) in Australia. A testament to the biologists and aquarists who bred and reared them, these Fairy Basslets are exceptionally robust and healthy. Because of the limited number of specimens, they will only be available to public aquariums and educational facilities at this time. Royal Grammas represent just one of several species being aquacultured by BCMI, a campus of Durack Institute of Technology in Western Australia. by Justin Credabel | Aug 25, 2016 | Conservation, Corals, Reef, Travel
Upon arrival in St Martin 10 years ago, I dove into the water and stayed there for five hours. It was the first time that I had ever seen coral in the wild; I discovered more coral, fish, fanworms, and urchins every few feet – animals and creatures that I had... by xeniaforever | Aug 23, 2016 | Conservation, Corals, Reef
https://vimeo.com/179650430 Check out this fantastic new video from Rich Ross. He has been working at the Coral Restoration Foundation‘s coral nursery in Florida with a team of scientists to better understand Acropora Cervicornis sexual reproduction, with the... by AquaNerd | Aug 21, 2016 | Conservation, Fish, Reef, Science
Greenland sharks are now the longest-living vertebrates known on Earth, scientists say. [embedded content] Researchers used radiocarbon dating to determine the ages of 28 of the animals, and estimated that one female was about 400 years old. The team found that the sharks grow at just 1cm a year, and reach sexual maturity at about the age of 150. The research is published in the journal Science. Lead author Julius Nielsen, a marine biologist from the University of Copenhagen, said: “We had our expectations that we were dealing with an unusual animal, but I think everyone doing this research was very surprised to learn the sharks were as old as they were.” The former vertebrate record-holder was a bowhead whale estimated to be 211 years old. But by Todd Gardner | Aug 16, 2016 | Aquaculture, Conservation, Eye Candy, Fish, MACNA, Science, Sustainability
Although it’s too early to celebrate, I’m happy to report that progress is being made at the Suffolk County Community College Marine Science Lab, on the captive culture of one of the rarest and most valuable reef basslets in the world, Rainfordia... by Matthew Stansbery | Aug 15, 2016 | Conservation, Corals, Photography, Reef
For the first time ever researchers from The Queensland University of Technology have documented through time-lapse photography, the event known as coral bleaching. Using a combination of technologies scientists were able to record what they dubbed “pulsed...
