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...
CORAL Interview: Helmut Debelius

CORAL Interview: Helmut Debelius

Originally posted: May 2010 Excerpt from CORAL May/June 2010 By Daniel Knop The name Helmut Debelius is a byword for reef fish and invertebrate enthusiasts, not only for divers but also among marine aquarists worldwide. The Fire Shrimp, Lysmata debelius, Debelius Reef...
CORAL Interview: Ken Nedimyer

CORAL Interview: Ken Nedimyer

Originally posted: November 2009 Ed Haag talks with Ken Nedimyer, CORAL November/December 2009 In 1977, a major cold front struck the southeastern seaboard of the U.S. Snow fell in the Florida Keys and the water temperatures plunged in that normally tropical...