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Wild Discovery: A Grafted Yellow Acropora caroliniana
While diving in central Indonesia, I was lucky enough to come upon one of the nicest Acropora carolinana I have ever found. This particular yellow strain is a classic Bali Maricultured Acropora coral that regularly finds its way into reef shops. But this particular specimen was different....
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CORAL Excerpt - EcoHarvest Hawaii: Big Plans on the Big Island
Within the confines of this relatively small space, three unique individuals from different walks of life have joined forces to meet the needs of the marine aquarium industry at a scale not yet seen within the trade. Their first shipments of aquacultured Centropyge angelfish have just been completed to selec...
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CORAL Video: Banggai Ban with Bob Likins
CORAL Magazine and Melev's Reef have joined forces to present an exclusive interview with Bob Likins, Executive Vice President of Pet Advocacy Network, exploring the issue facing the U.S. trade in Banggai Cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni. They discuss what you can do to convince NOAA to reject their proposal...
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Thyroid Hormones Dictate Clownfish Early Life
A new open-access publication highlights the influence of thyroid hormones on the early life stage and settlement of clownfish larvae....
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Follow CORAL Magazine on YouTube
Meet Alex Rose, a new member of the CORAL Magazine team. Among other roles, Alex will be spearheading the new CORAL Magazine YouTube Channel. Subscribe to our channel today!...
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Quality Marine Urges Opposition to Banggai Ban
Quality Marine has played a key role in establishing an overseas commercial aquaculture farm over a decade ago, dedicated to breeding and rearing Banggai Cardinalfish. Without the volume of U.S. imports of Banggai Cardinalfish, which account for the majority of the output from aquaculture operations abroad, t...
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CORAL Magazine Table of Contents September/October 2023
MODERN AQUACULTURE Volume 20, Number 5...
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AMAZONAS Magazine "FRESHWATER STINGRAYS" Inside Look
Highlights from AMAZONAS Magazine's September/October 2023 issue. Paid AMAZONAS subscribers can log in with their email address and read the Digital Edition starting August 22nd, 2023....
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NEW Fresh and Marine Dual All-In-One Aquariums from Ultum Nature Systems
Introducing the UNS Fresh and Marine Dual All-In-One System. Suitable for saltwater or freshwater use, the Dual series can be customized with a full line of add-on accessories to support a successful reef aquarium....
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Baby Photos: Goniporas take their first steps!
Inter-Fish PTY LTD in Australia succeeded in breeding Goniopora corals for the first time in captivity! Interesting visually-chimeric polyps and colonies of mixed phenotypes are just some of the surprises that are showing up in the offspring. ...
Marine
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Wild Discovery: A Grafted Yellow Acropora caroliniana
While diving in central Indonesia, I was lucky enough to come upon one of the nicest Acropora carolinana I have ever found. This particular yellow strain is a classic Bali Maricultured Acropora coral that regularly finds its way into reef shops. But this particular specimen was different.
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CORAL Excerpt - EcoHarvest Hawaii: Big Plans on the Big Island
Within the confines of this relatively small space, three unique individuals from different walks of life have joined forces to meet the needs of the marine aquarium industry at a scale not yet seen within the trade. Their first shipments of aquacultured Centropyge angelfish have just been completed to select wholesalers and aquarium retailers in the U.S. and Europe, and this is just the start.
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CORAL Video: Banggai Ban with Bob Likins
CORAL Magazine and Melev’s Reef have joined forces to present an exclusive interview with Bob Likins, Executive Vice President of Pet Advocacy Network, exploring the issue facing the U.S. trade in Banggai Cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni. They discuss what you can do to convince NOAA to reject their proposal that would ban imports and exports of Banggai Cardinals in the United States.
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Thyroid Hormones Dictate Clownfish Early Life
A new open-access publication highlights the influence of thyroid hormones on the early life stage and settlement of clownfish larvae.
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Follow CORAL Magazine on YouTube
Meet Alex Rose, a new member of the CORAL Magazine team. Among other roles, Alex will be spearheading the new CORAL Magazine YouTube Channel. Subscribe to our channel today!
Freshwater
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AMAZONAS Magazine "FRESHWATER STINGRAYS" Inside Look
Highlights from AMAZONAS Magazine’s September/October 2023 issue. Paid AMAZONAS subscribers can log in with their email address and read the Digital Edition starting August 22nd, 2023.
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NEW Fresh and Marine Dual All-In-One Aquariums from Ultum Nature Systems
Introducing the UNS Fresh and Marine Dual All-In-One System. Suitable for saltwater or freshwater use, the Dual series can be customized with a full line of add-on accessories to support a successful reef aquarium.
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AMAZONAS Interview: Steve Waldron of Aquarium Zen
Meet Steve Waldron, the owner and founder of Aquarium Zen in Seattle, WA. Steve chats with us about how he first fell in love with fish, the inspiration behind Aquarium Zen, building huge aquariums for Amazon, and his exciting new medaka operation in Hawaii. Hope you enjoy our conversation!
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CaribSea's New South Seas Arches & Shapes
CaribSea introduces new South Seas Shapes and South Seas Arches to their line of natural base rock suitable for marine, reef, and hard-water freshwater aquariums.
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VIDEO Inside Look: AMAZONAS Magazine "FRESHWATER STINGRAYS"
A video preview of highlights in AMAZONAS Magazine’s September/October 2023 Issue. Paid AMAZONAS Subscribers can log in with their email address and read the Digital Edition starting August 22nd, 2023.
New Products
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NEW Fresh and Marine Dual All-In-One Aquariums from Ultum Nature Systems
Introducing the UNS Fresh and Marine Dual All-In-One System. Suitable for saltwater or freshwater use, the Dual series can be customized with a full line of add-on accessories to support a successful reef aquarium.
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CaribSea's New South Seas Arches & Shapes
CaribSea introduces new South Seas Shapes and South Seas Arches to their line of natural base rock suitable for marine, reef, and hard-water freshwater aquariums.
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Oceanbox Designs' New 37mm Pro Lens Hood
Oceanbox Designs has released a lens hood” that reduces glare when using the Reeflens MKII Pro Filter. The hood may also be compatible with other similar macro diopters used with the cameras on mobile phones.
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Benepets' New Pellet-Form Reef And Coral Foods
Two new pellet feeds, Benepellet Reef and Benepellet LPS, join Benepets’ signature offering, the original Benereef powder-formula reef aquarium and coral food.
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Slide-Loc's New Stingray Magnetic Frag Rack
The new frag rack design boasts double sealed magnets, black and white sides that facilitate photography and light acclimation, and a unique curved design that allows for larger frags in the center of the rack.
News & Notes
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CORAL Video: Banggai Ban with Bob Likins
CORAL Magazine and Melev’s Reef have joined forces to present an exclusive interview with Bob Likins, Executive Vice President of Pet Advocacy Network, exploring the issue facing the U.S. trade in Banggai Cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni. They discuss what you can do to convince NOAA to reject their proposal that would ban imports and exports of Banggai Cardinals in the United States.
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CORAL Excerpt - MASNA and MACNA: Steering the ship in a different direction
After weathering the Covid Pandemic, and struggling to find its footing in the aftermath, MASNA wound up canceling this year’s Marine Aquarium Conference of North America (MACNA) which was planned for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hobbyists and the aquarium industry alike have wondered whether the organization’s tenure had come to an end. The current leadership says no, and we’re all about to learn what’s next for MASNA. Matt Pedersen discussed the future of MASNA and MACNA with its President, Travis Knorr.
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No 2023 MACNA? Watch the FREE MarcNA 2023!
MarcNA is the first of its kind! Never before has there been a 24-hour educational event for the reef-keeping hobby. All things saltwater will be considered, discussed and dissected. The Live Chat will allow attendees to pose questions to the guest speakers, and the moderators will make sure everyone has a good time.
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CORAL NEWS: Meet The Expanded CORAL Editorial Team!
CORAL’s new publisher, Aquatic Media Press, is pleased to welcome three new members to CORAL’s editorial staff.
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Are Banggai Cardinals Depleted in the Wild?
A new proposed draft rule to prevent the US import and export of the Banggai Cardinal (Pterapogon kauderni) under the Endangered Species Act, would do vastly more harm than good. The need for these proposed changes is based on a false premise. Meanwhile, these rules would vastly complicate the aquarium trade in this species and significantly stifle the robust commercial aquaculture of the species that currently produces the vast majority of fish seen in the aquarium trade.
Matt Pedersen says:
Jonathan, I've sent messages through two avenues I have for him and included your info. Perhaps you'll be able to connect.Jonathan Baskin says:
I am trying to reach Henry Feddern. We were students together in U or Miami Marine lab it the 1960s.I see that the interview was done in 2011 so maybe the address you gave for him, which I have tried, may no longer be valid.CORAL Video: Banggai Ban with Bob Likins says:
[…] https://www.reef2rainforest.com/2023/08/22/are-banggai-cardinals-depleted-in-the-wild/ […]Vinny Kreyling says:
Congrats to Mark on his new position.I know I speak for many wishing him the best.Robert Di Marco says:
Hi Matt, I always read with great interest your articles on any new species being bred and especially the loves of my fish life, the Clownfish. (I was the first Clownfish breeder in Canada back in the late 80’s, having reared 9 varieties from a basement operation and have spoken at MACNA twice and given over 75 presentations, on maintaining marine tanks and rearing Clownfish, in all the four corners of Canada and the US. My goal was to try and raise as many different varieties as possible to avoid taking any more off the reefs. Your article on the first raising of the Oman Clownfish struck a particular chord with me. At the MACNA XXVI held in Denver Colorado, Colorado August 29-31, 2014, we took the opportunity to visit the Denver Aquarium and I was stunned to see a pair of Oman Clownfish on display because everything I had heard was that collection and exporting from Oman was prohibited. Here is one of the pictures we took: I had a particular fascination with this species of Clownfish because they develop a more pronounced forked caudal fin as they mature, even more than some “clarkii”. I tried to speak to someone at the Denver Aquarium about if they had tried or had any plans to try to breed them and unfortunately no one at the Aquarium that day knew anything about them and even what type of Clownfish they were. All they did know was that an anonymous donor had given the pair to the Aquarium. I even wrote to them to offer any assistance but I never got a reply. So, all these years, I am truly pleased to hear that another species will be reared in captivity, this again is of particular interest because I am preparing to give a talk (which I have given a few times since 2014), entitled “ANEMONE FISHES OF THE WORLD”. I confirmed my last update in communication with Dr. Gerry Allen, (we spoke together at a MACNA), when he discovered the Amphiprion Pacificus. In this talk. besides the ones that I raised personally, I also identify the species that have been raised by different breeders and facilities. Previously you used to issue a list of Marine fish that had been raised in captivity, but since 2019 I have not been able to find an updated version which now of course would include the Oman Clownfish. Can you tell me if such a new list exists and I would like to see which species of Clownfish that have still not been reared. Thanks Robert Di MarcoVIDEO Inside Look: AMAZONAS Magazine “FRESHWATER STING says:
[…] That’s right, you can now get Inside Look, your exclusive sneak peek at the brand new issue of the aquarium magazine AMAZONAS, in video format! Host Alex Rose walks you through the latest issue, FRESHWATER STINGRAYS, the September/October 2023 edition. You can still get the FRESHWATER STINGRAYS Inside Look in a readable format as well! […]