by Matt Pedersen | Nov 13, 2020 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
An amazing colony of fused Australian Tricolor Brain Coral, Platygyra sp., was recently received by Carolina Aquatics. Download a version of this image as a desktop/wallpaper here: (horizontal at 1900 X 1200, or vertical at 1200 X 1900). FUSED TRICOLOR BRAIN...
by James Lawrence | Nov 5, 2020 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
The Blue Velvet Sea Slug (Chelidonura varians) sucks in flatworms like a vacuum cleaner, but this trophic specialist usually can’t survive long in the aquarium. There were high hopes it would help win battles against flatworms, but these hardly ever came to fruition....
by Matt Pedersen | Oct 23, 2020 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Cover of CORAL Magazine Volume 17, Issue 5 – VERMES – November/December 2020. On the cover: Serpulid Feather Duster Worm, Protula magnifica: Denise Nielsen Tackett. Background: Dermal gills on Cushion Sea Star, Culcita novaeguineae: Larry P. Tackett Go to the Digital...
by CORAL Magazine | Oct 11, 2020 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
PROTULA MAGNIFICAMagnificent Feather Duster or Coco WormThis large serpulid feather-duster has a hard, calcareous tube that can reach about 1 cm in diameter. One characteristic of worms in the genus Protula is that, unlike most serpulids, they lack an operculum to...
by James Lawrence | Sep 10, 2020 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Editor’s Page Excerpt from CORAL, September/October 2020 It was enough to send us scrambling for the field guides and our copy of Audubon’s Birds of America. This morning’s breakfast reading happened to be our village weekly paper with an item on Red-bellied...
by Matt Pedersen | Sep 3, 2020 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Go to the Digital Edition—for Immediate Reading The September/October 2020 Issue of CORAL is printed and on its way from New Hampshire to subscribers and leading local retail shops—on sale September 3rd, 2020, at the best marine aquarium retail stores everywhere....
