CORAL Magazine Contents Nov/Dec 2012

CORAL Magazine Contents Nov/Dec 2012

CORAL Magazine GIANT CLAMS Issue November/December 2012 Volume 9, Number 6 CONTENTS 4   Letter from Europe by Daniel Knop 7   Editor’s Page by James M. Lawrence 8   Letters 12  Reef News 24 Rarities by Inken Krause 30 Interview: CORAL talks with Dr. Rio Abdon-Naguit...

MACNA Miami Launching Ticket Sales

MACNA 2013, will be staged in Hollywood, Florida (between Miami and Ft. Lauderdale) from August 30 through September 1, 2013 and will be hosted by the Florida Marine Aquarium Society. One of the most-active marine clubs in the world, FMAS is the home society for such...
Requiem for a Giant Clam

Requiem for a Giant Clam

Farewell to a friend of 30 years by Dr. Dieter Brockmann Excerpt from CORAL, April 2010 I freely admit to being a giant clam fan, and one who has never been able to resist an attractive Tridacna. And there it was, 4.25 inches (11 cm) long, in a pet store in Oberhausen...
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...