by CORAL Magazine | Oct 16, 2015 | Marine, News & Notes
With some leading coral biologists fearing the globe’s worst recorded coral bleaching event unfolding in the waning days of 2015, the signs are especially ominous in the reefs of U.S. waters. As record ocean temperatures cause widespread coral bleaching across...
by CORAL Magazine | Oct 14, 2015 | Marine
via the Rising Tide Conservation Blog, October 14th, 2015 Oceanic Institute of Hawaii Pacific University is making some great headway with rearing Yellow Tangs! Check out the videos of the 36dph and 49dph groups at the Rising Tide Facebook Page:...
by Matt Pedersen | Oct 14, 2015 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
Frank Baensch’s success in creating the first captive-bred Butterflyfish is the first we are aware of (probably the first in the world), but about a month earlier (September 1st, 2015), Baensch quietly shared that he had also successfully spawned and reared the...
by Matt Pedersen | Oct 13, 2015 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine, News & Notes
Frank Baensch is no stranger to pioneering work with the culture of ornamental marine aquarium fishes, playing a pivotal role in laying the groundwork for the captive propagation of marine angelfishes, primarily from the genus Centropyge, first accomplished by...
by CORAL Magazine | Oct 2, 2015 | Marine
It came out of the archives as CORAL editors are working on the upcoming magazine issue about Reef Hitchhikers, and it was found among a batch of images of life forms whose identification had previous stumped even some veteran marine aquarists. The first five readers...
by Than Thein | Oct 2, 2015 | CORAL - Than Thein, Marine
Although the common name for them is Orange Ball Anemones, the Pseudocorynactis are not anemones at all. They are a type of corallimorph, or, in other words, mushrooms. Mushroom corallimorphs come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and textures, but even within a group...
