by Jay Hemdal | Apr 27, 2014 | CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Marine
A Marine Fish Propagation System at the Toledo Zoo by Laurie Dixon, Toledo Zoo Aquarium lead keeper You’ve heard the saying, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Well, it can take thousands of copepods to raise one larval fish. Our curator of fishes, Jay Hemdal, and...
by Mike Paletta | Apr 25, 2014 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Seeing The Light—The conversion from years of metal halide use to radically new LEDs By Mike Paletta Excerpt from the May/June 2014 issue of CORAL Magazine There is an old axiom about how to cook a bullfrog. You can’t just pop him into boiling water, because as soon...
by CORAL Magazine | Apr 25, 2014 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine, News & Notes
Culturing the vulnerable King of the Parrotfishes By Tom Bowling Excerpt from the May/June 2014 issue of CORAL Magazine Palau is unique in many ways. Part of Micronesia in the Western Pacific Ocean, it is a biologist’s wonderland consisting of amazing mushroom-shaped...
by Stephan Tanner | Apr 21, 2014 | CORAL - Stephan M. Tanner, Marine
Estimating piscine populations without draining the tank or sacrificing the fish By Stephan M. Tanner, Ph.D. Screening water, soil, or other media for the presence of so-called “environmental DNA (eDNA)” to study microbial communities has become a well-established...
by CORAL Magazine | Apr 19, 2014 | Marine
Think corals are fussy eaters? Watch them attacking and ingesting dry pelleted food. Credit Than Thein | Tidal Gardens |...