MYSTERY CORAL: Softball for Summer

MYSTERY CORAL: Softball for Summer

Can you identify this beautiful coral, photographed by Grant Rakowski at Lansing, Michigan-based aquarium wholesaler A&M Aquatics? Summertime is here, and that means time for softball! Veteran aquarists will have a blast trying to identify this—well, how should we...
Microscopic Mayhem When Corals Are Attacked

Microscopic Mayhem When Corals Are Attacked

A juvenile Crown-of-Thorns Starfish with ultimately fatal damage to the arms and central disk after being repelled by the stinging weaponry of an Acropora coral. Credit: Dione Deaker, University of Sydney. Coral can fight back against attacking juvenile...