Crustacean Invasion

Parasitic copepods and isopods that sometimes attack marine aquarium fishes

By Jay F. Hemdal

Excerpted from the March/April 2023 Issue of CORAL Magazine

Two lessons: On rare occasions, some very strange predators can appear, uninvited, in the marine aquarium. And: Things are not always what they seem to be…

Flame Angelfish Taxonomy

“Here’s the full story on Centropyge loriculus,” says Pyle. “I was actually the first to realize that while the genus Centropyge was feminine, all of the adjective species epithets took the masculine form (e.g., flavissimus, bispinosus, etc.).

Drawing board to reality: Full-tilt forward on a “BioBank” of all reefbuilding coral species

Imagine an aquarium with colonies of every reefbuilding coral species on Earth. Imagine it as a repository to be drawn upon for reef restoration and research efforts, as many oceanographers are forecasting mounting climatic assaults on coral reefs as we know them.

CORAL Excerpt: Dawn of a New Era for Marine Aquarists?

Now, as this issue’s cover stories show, we are on the threshold of a new level of captive breeding: the sexual reproduction of stony corals in home reef aquariums.

The Lanthanum Solution: Combating Flatworms in the Reef Aquarium

Daniel Knop examines the many methods that reef aquarists employ in an effort to eliminate problematic flatworm pests in reef tanks, including one option that may well be the ultimate weapon to eliminate flatworms once and for all!