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MACNA 2019: Meet-Ups are Back!
MACNA 2019 is once again offering meeting spaces for marine aquarium interest groups so that you can meet-up with your friends, and make new ones!...
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Plant Spotlight: Hygrophila corymbosa "Angustifolia"
This Southeast Asian specimen will grow out of the aquarium if given the chance, producing blue-violet flowers and a thickened, woody stem. ...
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Mystery Coral
As seen in the March/April 2019 Issue of CORAL Magazine, this coral belongs to a relatively obscure genus of Scleractinians. Can you name it?...
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Plant Spotlight: Hydrocotyle tripartita 'Japan'
As a carpeting foreground plant, one can hardly fault Hydrocotyle tripartita 'Japan'. This Southeast Asian import grows fast, low, and carpets densely in a uniform manner....
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Meet the newest Cryptocentrus Shrimpgoby Species
Meet the Highfin Shrimpgoby, Cryptocentrus altipinna, which is found exclusively in the Indian Ocean, residing in seagrass beds with sandy-mud bottoms....
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Plant Spotlight: "Madagascar Lace Plant", Aponogeton madagascariensis
Once hailed as the "king of aquarium plants", Madagascar Lace Plants are nonetheless an impressive addition to any hobbyist desiring an unusual and striking specimen to add to their collection....
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Mediterranean Stunner: The Red-Black Triplefin Blenny
Last week's CORAL Newsletter teased a beautiful "little red Corvette" of a mystery fish, this stunning bottom dweller from the intertidal zone, yet a fish few have likely seen or recognized....
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Yale Environment 360 Highlights Scramble to Save Coral Reefs
Journalist Ret Talbot offers a "state of the coral reefs" and highlights research efforts to identify what can be saved in the face of worsening conditions for coral reefs....
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Fix Hazy Aquarium Glass with Cerium Oxide
With a few easy steps, glass polishing with cerium oxide powder restores the transparency of a glass aquarium damaged by etched haze....
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Triton N-Doc Test Has Landed
This new test will allow the reef aquarium hobbyist to now have an accurate view of the ratio between Nitrate: Phosphate: Carbon, which can help reef aquarists avoid cyano blooms, improve general SPS-related issues and improve refugium health....
Marine
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MACNA 2019: Meet-Ups are Back!
MACNA 2019 is once again offering meeting spaces for marine aquarium interest groups so that you can meet-up with your friends, and make new ones!
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Mystery Coral
As seen in the March/April 2019 Issue of CORAL Magazine, this coral belongs to a relatively obscure genus of Scleractinians. Can you name it?
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CORAL Mystery Species Answers
Leptastrea is a genus of encrusting reefbuilding stony corals from the Indo-Pacific. Previously assigned to the family Faviidae, it has been moved to uncertain status, Scleractinia incertae sedis, based on DNA testing.
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Meet the newest Cryptocentrus Shrimpgoby Species
Meet the Highfin Shrimpgoby, Cryptocentrus altipinna, which is found exclusively in the Indian Ocean, residing in seagrass beds with sandy-mud bottoms.
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Mediterranean Stunner: The Red-Black Triplefin Blenny
Last week’s CORAL Newsletter teased a beautiful “little red Corvette” of a mystery fish, this stunning bottom dweller from the intertidal zone, yet a fish few have likely seen or recognized.
Freshwater
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Plant Spotlight: Hygrophila corymbosa "Angustifolia"
This Southeast Asian specimen will grow out of the aquarium if given the chance, producing blue-violet flowers and a thickened, woody stem.
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Plant Spotlight: Hydrocotyle tripartita 'Japan'
As a carpeting foreground plant, one can hardly fault Hydrocotyle tripartita ‘Japan’. This Southeast Asian import grows fast, low, and carpets densely in a uniform manner.
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Plant Spotlight: "Madagascar Lace Plant", Aponogeton madagascariensis
Once hailed as the “king of aquarium plants”, Madagascar Lace Plants are nonetheless an impressive addition to any hobbyist desiring an unusual and striking specimen to add to their collection.
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Fix Hazy Aquarium Glass with Cerium Oxide
With a few easy steps, glass polishing with cerium oxide powder restores the transparency of a glass aquarium damaged by etched haze.
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AMAZONAS Magazine Table of Contents March/April 2019
Betta Beauties, AMAZONAS Magazine Volume 8, Number 2
New Products
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Triton N-Doc Test Has Landed
This new test will allow the reef aquarium hobbyist to now have an accurate view of the ratio between Nitrate: Phosphate: Carbon, which can help reef aquarists avoid cyano blooms, improve general SPS-related issues and improve refugium health.
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TUNZE Nano Reef LED
A product may be “eco” – that is, economical, ecological, good value and at the same time stylish and “chic”: TUNZE releases new Eco Chic Reef LED for nano aquariums
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New Red Sea REEFER Skimmers
A built-in neck cleaner, a foam viewing port, and multiple installation configurations are some of the key features of this new, super-quiet protein skimmer design from Red Sea.
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New Hikari Bio-Pure® Lake Okanagan Freshwater Mysis Shrimp
These freshwater mysis shrimp, harvested from the glacier-fed waters of Lake Okanagan make them ideal for most larger marine and freshwater fish.
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ORA's Foray into More Captive-Bred Damsels
ORA claims two species firsts in early 2018, producing desireable captive-bred damselfish species suitable for many home aquariums.
News & Notes
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MACNA 2019: Meet-Ups are Back!
MACNA 2019 is once again offering meeting spaces for marine aquarium interest groups so that you can meet-up with your friends, and make new ones!
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Yale Environment 360 Highlights Scramble to Save Coral Reefs
Journalist Ret Talbot offers a “state of the coral reefs” and highlights research efforts to identify what can be saved in the face of worsening conditions for coral reefs.
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EXTINCTION!!! Memories of the Sunflower Sea Star
A new publication confirms the extirpation and possible extinction of the benthic ecosystem apex predator, the Sunflower Sea Star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, due the combined effects of abnormally warm sea water temperatures coupled with the effects of sea star wasting disease.
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ESA is Working for Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles
A recently written article analyzes the significant success of the Endangered Species Act by noting the recovery of numerous populations of marine mammals and sea turtles.
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Insect Apocalypse
This article scares the living hell out of me.
Robbie Rhye says:
Technically, yes you are correct...this is a very fluffy John Deer leptastreaNed says:
If anthropologists were icthyologists, every skin color, hair color, language, and height of the various Homo sapiens would be seperate species.Eric A. says:
I believe its a John Deere coral... is that right? I have one that is yellow and red, instead of the green coloration shown here.. i hope im right! Thanks!Sam Burnham says:
Very interested in this post! Have been thinking of adding some myself.Dan Dolaptchieff says:
We thank you Mr Carlson for your unending truith about our fishery here in Hawaii nae. It has been a Very Sustainable fishery for the whole time I have been here,27 years. The numbers of fish counted every year,just goes up,even with the collecters taking 2 millon small fish a year. Well now that we have had no take in west hawaii for 2 years the population will be allmost to many for the reef to sustain since there is no human take. Just like the fishery in southern California the take of sea urchins must coincide with the growth of the kelp. We now see sea urchins devastating the kelp beds there. We can live in a clean harmony with nature. First we must study and understand her ,and then make informed choices about ,what ,when and size and how many is sustainable to harvest. This has been well thought out in Hawaii. It is still one of the most studdied and Sustainable resources we have here in Hawaii. We have lived in harmony with the tourist dive industry here for 20 years. Making sure the industry makes no impact in the areas the divers go to. Thats why 30% of the west cost is off limits to all fropical fish collecting. The rest of the Big Island is to rough and remote to harvest for tropical fish, so it stands as an almost untouched area supporting many super large adult breading pairs of all kinds of fish. We will have plenty of fish on the Big Island for many generations ,as long as we continue to fish it the way we have in the past. Many of the deeper fish like the bandit angel are a 140 ft + and deeper fish. These fish have been seen in huge schools in 200- 300 ft of water, we see only the population pushed shallower do to overcrowding in the depths. We face many challenges to help save our corals from heat death here as well as many reefs worldwide. Please support our ongoing coral saving efforts. Alohag_branham says:
I don't agree, look at http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2014/09/06/hawaii-news/clownfish-may-become-protected-species/