by Josh Saul | Oct 6, 2013 | Corals, Funny
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For someone that loves acropora as much as I do, I sit here tonight staring at my beautiful 250 gallon mother colony system wondering how it ended up seventy five percent full of montipora colonies.… by Josh Saul | Oct 3, 2013 | Corals, Events, Fish, Invertebrates
Our friends at House of Fins are putting on their annual reef event ‘Splash” this coming October 19th-20th in Greenwich, Connecticut. Their 56th anniversary event includes a huge sale on livestock, several dry goods information tables, and great guest... by Heidi dM | Oct 3, 2013 | Conservation, Corals, Fish
Last year this time, the Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition with the National Marine Fisheries Service to protect the Orange Clownfish and seven other reef fish under the Endangered Species... by Austin Lefevre | Oct 2, 2013 | Corals, Eye Candy
Love them or hate them, “Live Sales” are here to stay. So what is a “Live Sale”? Vendors will host a sale, which as you probably guessed takes place in real time, on various internet forums. Reef2Reef is by far the most prevalent site for Live... by AquaNerd | Oct 2, 2013 | Conservation, Corals
Here’s a bit of good news for the aquarium industry. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has decided to postpone listing 66 coral species under the Endangered Species Act by six months. After hearing extensive comments on the matter, NOAA determined that they needed to gather more information before making a final decision. They will complete their data solicitation by October 2013 and expect to make a decision on the information no later than June 2014. If NOAA finds sufficient reason to list the proposed corals, then each species will then become illegal to own or even propagate. And just taking a quick glance at the list, passage of the proposal would affect each and every one of us, tremendously. That announcement out of the way, here’s a little background on the story. The listing of these corals under the ESA stemmed from a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity to list a total 83 coral species. That petition was originally filed in 2009, but inactivity on NOAA’s part prompted legal action by the CBD. After some initial back and forth, an agreement was eventually constructed in which the National Marine Fisheries Service would conduct a year-long study of the proposed coral species in order to determine if their listing under the ESA was necessary
