by CORAL Magazine | Sep 25, 2014 | Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
via Aquatic Experience Chicago Second annual Aquatic Experience – Chicago makes a splash with additional 130+ tanks of tropical fish, return of Live Shark Encounter and Kids Aquarium Contest November 7-9, 2014 Everything aquatic under one roof also includes: Fish from...
by CORAL Magazine | Sep 25, 2014 | Marine
Richard Ross, Matt Wandell and Bart Sheperd brought us the exciting tale of the first captive Hippocampus bargibanti earlier this summer, sharing their breeding success. We followed up with a story behind the legalities of ever owning a Pygmy Seahorse. As fall...
by Nathan Hill | Sep 22, 2014 | AMAZONAS - Nathan Hill, Freshwater, Marine
Whether you like it or not, lots of animals have proclivities – urges – of a sexual nature that go beyond respecting any species boundaries. I’m sure we’ve all kept guppies at some stage, and know the degree to which they’ll harass anything and...
by Ret Talbot | Sep 17, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
How Many Wild Orange Clownfish Does the Aquarium Trade Harvest? As we reported last week, the Percula or Orange Clownfish (Amphiprion percula) is now in status review with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service...
by Matt Pedersen | Sep 17, 2014 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
Matthew Galat plays the lead role in the movie that is his own life. An expat living abroad, his youtube channel, The JaYoe Nation Youtube Channel covers so much more than reefs. On Sept. 5th, 2014, Galat shared the 4th and final video in his “Matt’s Reef...
by CORAL Magazine | Sep 15, 2014 | Marine, News & Notes
via the NOAA Ocean Sciences Blog, 9-10-2014 By Randy Clark, NCCOS Marine Biologist An Ocean Oasis On the northern continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico there are many banks that rise out of the depths. Many of these act as an oasis in a relatively deep and dark...