by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Jul 7, 2014 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
Editor: This is Dr.Ron Shimek’s note about a image of feather dusters that recently arrived at A&M Aquatics in Lansing, Michigan, and were photographed by Ryan Shelander for a Rarities piece in the current issue of CORAL. Brian Wagner, also of A&M says...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Jun 29, 2014 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
In a very nice, easily understood, short paper , available online here, free of charge, L.Dougherty and collaborators examined the “disco flashing” seen in the edges of the mantle of the bivalve Ctenoides ales [commonly known as the “Electric Flame...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Jun 20, 2014 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
Recent research has shown that Ctenophores have a unique genome and nervous system structure, not related to those seen in any other animals. Once again one of my favorite weird animal groups has risen to the surface in the boiling, bubbling, babbling, cauldron of...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | May 19, 2014 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
What marine animals eat in their natural environment has always interested me. As an aquarist, and as a zoologist, I know that finding the proper food and feeding it in proper amounts is probably the most important factor in animal husbandry. In the natural...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | May 5, 2014 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
Recently, I have written quite a bit about many temperate and cold water animals, some of which would, could, or should, make beautiful additions to an aquarium having the appropriate conditions. Aquarists interested in coral reefs have probably noticed the absence...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Mar 31, 2014 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
Here comes the blob… I have prided myself in that the animals in my underwater photographs are not posed or altered in any manner. As a result, the resultant image is a “slice of life”, a kind of historical record of what was photographed, a record of a tiny moment...
