This MACNA – Marine Aquarium Conference of North America – 2019 had some of the BEST display tanks that I have seen in my years of covering many different shows for this industry. I was amazed at the lengths that the vendors went through to put up such an amazing displays (Like the [...]
This was my favorite video from the show. I absolutely love big forces of our industry coming together in harmony to better our hobby as whole and MASNA has always supported RAP shows and what they do. We got together with the President of MASNA, Dr. Kevin Erickson, to talk and learn all about [...]
Reef Breeders has been around for a quite a while now and I have seen them popping up all over the country at various trade shows, but I didn’t know much about them. All I knew about the company was that it had a young owner and had a fantastic track record of good customer support. To change [...]
Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, have discovered that sea-level rise might have occurred in bursts rather than a prolonged gradual increase. Close to the last ice age glaciers melted at a rate so [...]
An ultimate guide to dealing with Crown of Thorns outbreaks has just been released in open access format! The book “Biology, Ecology and Management of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish” expounds 30 years of COTS research, and compiles 18 different research papers and reviews, making it the most [...]
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is leading the pack again by creating 3 dimensional maps of reefs to help better understand the distribution and collections of coral species across the globe. By taking some 39,000 images, canvassing more than 17,000 square feet of reef, and [...]
In some interesting research, a UC Davis research team has concluded that planting multiple species of Seagrass during reef restoration efforts can actually improve restorative conditions for reefs all around the world! “Seagrass beds are important habitats for fisheries species, for protecting [...]
Aloha Mai Kakou, Exploring coastlines and finding underwater creatures has been a passion of mine since childhood. Growing up in coastal Florida, I kept what I caught locally in home aquariums before landing my high school job at a burgeoning exotic pet store and eagerly [...]