Summer is over; fall has seized Long Island. The waters are cooling down, the tropical fish that we've enjoyed collecting all season will soon be gone from our bays and inlets. At the LI Aquarium, the summer exhibits are closing and the visiting crowds have changed from the wall-to-wall traffic [...]
Credit: Newsday/ Thomas A. Ferrara Joe Yaiullo and his world-renowned aquarium and staff got to play host to Newsday's Jimin Kim this week, and provided the reporter and his photographer, Thomas A. Ferrara, with a myriad of fascinating, behind-the-scenes views of the daily workings. The media [...]
Last week I reported on the arrival of the first tropical fishes of the year to appear in Long Island waters after a seining trip at Fire Island inlet turned up a filefish, groupers, and northern sennets. This week I am happy to announce that the next wave has arrived. Yesterday I accompanied a [...]
This is but one of the marine themed tattoos Rich has Rich RossAquarium Champion Last week's tattoo teaser belonged to none other than Aquarist of the Year Rich Ross. Rich is well known for his love of cephalopods, and his mastery of some species is legendary. Aside from taking care of one [...]
A zoomed in fused of the newly fused area, green highlights can be seen in the darker donor coral The picture above was taken 2 weeks after I first grafted the corals, and already shows some areas of fusion. The green from one donor can be seen oozing into the other donor tissue.There are two [...]
“Identification of a protist-coral association and its possible ecological role” by a team of scientists in Israel, [...]
Long Term Combo of Acropora and Cyphastrea. Note shelving and larger "no man's land" than Seriatopora combo. The Green Titan Acropra and Cyphastrea developed an interesting dynamic. The Cyphastrea manages to overgrow the Acro at its base in spasms. The Acropora fights back by trying to shade the [...]
What can it mean that after a complete absence of lionfish around Long Island, New York, for the last three years, they have suddenly reappeared? …probably nothing. While the Indo-Pacific lionfish, Pterois volitans has continued to spread throughout the Atlantic and Caribbean, and localized [...]
