The marine community is mourning the lost of captive breeding industry pioneer and legend Bill (William) Addison. He was founder of C-Quest, the oldest operating marine ornamental fish hatchery in the country, starting in 1988. He was the third person recognized as a MASNA Aquarist of the Year. Coral Magazine has a nice article detailing [...] Read More

Live rock provides visual landscaping, a refuge for tank inhabitants, and contributes to your aquarium’s filtration system. But what exactly is live rock and why do I have to cure it? Our curing live rock article will help guide you through the process. Read More

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute has a new portable bilingual species identification guide for the shore fishes of the tropical Eastern Pacific as a free iPhone application. Now you can carry the means to identify almost 1300 species in your pocket, create and share lists that correspond to specific regions or field trips. Browse alphabetic lists [...] Read More

A gallery of images detailing a man-made coral nursery for staghorn corals. The Nature Conservancy is monitoring over a dozen coral nurseries installed and maintained by several other organizations, including Nova Southeastern University, University of Miami, Coral Restoration Foundation, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and Mote Marine Laboratory. The project is funded by NOAA [...] Read More

NGM has posted several pictures of a Carpeted Wobbegong Shark swallowing a whole Brownbanded Bamboo shark. Researchers from Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies came across the spectacle while conducting a fish census on the fringing reef off Great Keppel Island. For further reading, a study of the shark-eats-shark observation appears [...] Read More

New footage captures a mushroom coral inflating itself to escape a sandy burial. A scientist from the University of Queensland used timelapse photography to capture mushroom corals inflating and deflating their entire body in a series of rhythmic pulses. Watch at bbc.co.uk Read More