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.

20 Sep 11:45 AM 0 Read More...

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.

22 Aug 11:01 AM 1 Read More...

Is your Acropora tenuis really A tenuis?

A new paper focuses on Acropopra tenuis, and ultimately resurrects five coral taxon and described two additional new species of Acropora.

04 Aug 10:54 AM 0 Read More...

Endolithic Algae in Stony Corals!

Far from being devoid of life, the skeleton of a coral harbors a wide array of algae, endolithic fungi, heterotrophic bacteria, and other boring eukaryotes, often forming distinct bands of color visible to the bare eye. Some functions of these endolithic microorganisms are critical in coral health, such as nutrient cycling and metabolite transfer, but they are poorly known, particularly by aquarists.

28 Jul 1:27 AM 0 Read More...

Coral-Killing Sponges? ENOUGH already!

As if the list of threats to corals wasn’t long enough: climate change, pollution, parasites, and diseases. Add on the Anthropocene, the human age. It all has taken a serious toll on corals. And yet here’s another coral-killer that has been in the hobby for quite some time now—the coral-killing sponges.

19 Jul 2:07 PM 0 Read More...