by CORAL Magazine | Mar 24, 2023 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
A F1 captive-bred Harlequin Shrimp at 58 days post-hatch, with an Asterina starfish. A special excerpt from the March/April 2023 issue of CORAL Magazine article & images by Ramon Villaverde Word of encouragement (and a warning): “Rearing of Harlequin Shrimp...
by Matt Pedersen | Mar 9, 2023 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Cover of CORAL Magazine Volume 20, Issue 2: SEXY SHRIMPS (March/April 2023). On the cover: : Harlequin Shrimp, Hymenocera pictus, James D. Watt./Blue Planet Archive. Background: “OA Blasto”, Blastomussa sp.; MVargas Photography at Ocean Avenue, Arlington, Texas...
by CORAL Magazine | Feb 20, 2023 | CORAL - John Tullock, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Parasitic copepods and isopods that sometimes attack marine aquarium fishes By Jay F. HemdalExcerpt from the March/April 2023 CORAL Magazine Some forty 40 years ago, I was watching a group of Purple Firefish (Nemateleotris decora) being held in a wholesale livestock...
by Matt Pedersen | Jan 6, 2023 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Cover of CORAL Magazine Volume 20, Issue 1: DWARF SEABASSES (January/February 2023). Images: Lantern Bass, Serranus baldwini, Espen Rekdal/Blue Planet Archive. Background: Echinophyllia sp. ‘Cornbread’s Flaming Bugatti’, Michael Vargas/MVargas Photography at Ocean...
by Matt Pedersen | Dec 29, 2022 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Hemerocallis fulva ‘Kwanso’. This cultivar of the notorious orange “ditch lily” was first isolated and named 163 years ago. Pay closer attention next summer, you may find this variety with extra petals living in your neighborhood, or even your own yard....
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Dec 10, 2022 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Stopping to ponderthe fact that some reef animals can, and should, outlive their owners by Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D. CORAL Magazine, Jan/Feb 2023 References Botting, J. P., & Muir, L. A. (2018). Early sponge evolution: A review and phylogenetic framework....