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...
by Matt Pedersen | Sep 15, 2014 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
Chingchai Uekrogntham is an aquarist from Bangkok, Thailand, who’s well known the world over for a very impressive reef aquarium. What I didn’t know about, and happened across quite randomly, was a video of this wonderfully stunning coldwater marine...
by CORAL Magazine | Sep 15, 2014 | Marine
Faced the specter of 66 stony corals being banned for import, trade and ownership, the Marine Aquarium Societies of North America, representing thousands of saltwater hobbyists and aquarium clubs, is helping sponsor the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council’s...
by Mike Tuccinardi | Sep 13, 2014 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
Aquarama, a major aquatics industry expo held biennially in Singapore, has recently announced a move intended to foster closer ties between industry members and those in public aquaria. The press release explains that the upcoming trade show has made a major effort to...