CORAL Interview: Forrest Young

CORAL Interview: Forrest Young

Ed Haag talks with FORREST YOUNG, the Indiana Jones of fish collectors Excerpt from CORAL, September/October 2012 The next time you find yourself eyeball to eyeball with a particularly large and menacing oceanic denizen at a public aquarium, consider this: in all...
Planting Palmata

Planting Palmata

The following is a partial excerpt from the September/October 2012 issue of CORAL Magazine by Matthew L. Witternich On the day in 1996 that changed Ken Nedimyer’s life, he was a dawn-to-dusk live-rock farmer and reef-fish collector in the Upper and Middle Keys, little...
American Angels

American Angels

Part I: Genus Holacanthus Excerpt from CORAL, September/October 2012 Text & Images by Scott W. Michael For a generation of new marine aquarium keepers cutting their teeth on Acropora and Montipora fragments, the notion of a large angelfish being the icon of the...
Ugly Duckling Anemones in a New Light

Ugly Duckling Anemones in a New Light

Excerpt from CORAL, September/October 2012 article by Dick Perrin; images by Bryan Meldau More than 50 years ago, when I began exploring the shallow waters of the Florida Keys, I was amazed by the variety and abundance of life in the rocky areas and grass flats. Many...
The Man Who Caught Lightning

The Man Who Caught Lightning

Meet the Collectors Steven was born on Fisherman’s Island in 1984.  He married Huga Paul in 1998 and they have had 3 children together, so far….  He was as a spear fisherman for years until he had the opportunity to catch aquarium fish.  Steven caught the famous...