by Jay Hemdal | Aug 21, 2009 | CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Marine
I first raised clownfish when I worked for the Shedd Aquarium back around 1986. Myself and another aquarist worked on raising some skunk clownfish, but since we did not have rotifers, we used “algae squeezings” basically microbes that we isolated from algal mats...
by Jay Hemdal | Jul 17, 2009 | AMAZONAS - Jay Hemdal, CORAL - Jay Hemdal, Freshwater, Marine
This installment informally ties together three previous blog entries: photography, fish size estimation and the HLLE project. Much public aquarium work operates in this fashion, many different small topics and projects may be tightly woven together: While attending a...
by James Lawrence | Jul 14, 2009 | CORAL - James Lawrence, Marine
Featuring breakthrough information on the keeping of sea squirts (tunicates) by Daniel Knop, the July/August 2009 issue of CORAL is now printing and will be in the mail to subscribers and shipping to local aquarium shops this week. The on-sale date in in bookstores...
by Anne Linton | Jul 1, 2009 | CORAL Tables of Contents, Marine
SEA SQUIRTS VOLUME 6, NUMBER 4 2 Letter From Europe by Daniel Knop 5 Editor’s Page by James M. Lawrence 8 Letters 10 Reef News 18 Rarities: Cocos Pygmy Angelfish (Centropyge joculator) by Inken Krause 20 Interview: Dr. Sylvia Earle by Denise...
by James Lawrence | May 30, 2009 | CORAL - James Lawrence, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
For many years, it was an article of faith among conscientious aquarists and many marine biologists that the collection of reef fishes for the aquarium trade could never lead to the extinction of a species. The theory behind this is simple enough: most coral reef fish...
by James Lawrence | May 28, 2009 | CORAL - James Lawrence, Marine
It seems only yesterday that we inherited CORAL Magazine, but the third issue of 2009 is now in the mail and shipping to local aquarium shops and bookstores. (The official publication and bookstore on-sale date is June 9th, so anyone getting copies sooner has a...
