If you are ever visiting NYC and have time for a day trip out on Long Island, I would highly suggest the Long Island Aquarium and Exhibition Center out in Riverhead as an excellent family destination. The center is about a one-hour drive from Queens on the Long Island Expressway. As an added [...]
The AquaNerd featured coral of the week originated from a zoa colony collected by ReefGen, called the Superduperman Zoanthid. These beautiful zoas are brightly colored, very hardy, and grow rapidly once established in the aquarium. For optimum growth, the Superduperman Zoa prefers [...]
Clownfish Spawning at Suffolk County Community College Marine Lab, Riverhead, NY Clownfish spawning! Todd Gardner’s Marine Lab at Suffolk County Community College I can’t seem to keep my hands dry. When I’m not at ReefGen(or playing music), I moonlight at the Suffolk County [...]
Space in the coral troughs is always at a premium at the ReefGen coral farm, and we all agree that water flow is one of the most important aspects of coral care. When one of my troughs has an area of inadequate flow, such as this Acropora grow out system, it starts under-producing. I needed to [...]
Today I’d like to share with you an update on my baby micro-propagated coral. I first posted about these two and a half months ago, and I’m impressed with how much they’ve grown since then. The two-polyp Astroturf Goniopora I posted about 10 weeks ago has seen a [...]
We’ve received some great tattoo submissions. Today’s tattoos belongs to Christina Castaldo. This work was done by tattoo artist Alessia Reinero of Vicenza, Italy. It sure looks like this piece took many hours and sittings to finish. The bold colors and slightly stylistic [...]
More robots! Today’s video brings us footage of some more advanced models of the CRM line of robots. Here we can see the robot going through its paces and performing various tasks, from dish washing and snow shoveling to fish netting and pet store clean up. Sadly, not everyone is polite to [...]
I am continually fascinated by the goings-on in Joe Yaiullo’s massive aquarium. There are a lot of lessons to be learned from this tank, and its mature age, 14+ years, allows for some dynamic interactions between coral species. I’m impressed with the way Joe is willing to push the [...]