The Sedna Epic Expedition 2016 will begin in just four weeks time. Lead by geologist, geophysicist, conservationist and polar snorkeler Susan R. Eaton, this ambitious 11-day expedition will study the impacts of global warming and ocean change in the polar waters around Baffin Island,…
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MASNA looking for director for MACNA, Scientific Poster Session closing soon
Love MACNA and have some experience as an event planner? Then MASNA is looking for you. There is currently an opening for a Marine Aquarium Conference of North America (MACNA) Director who has an event management, meeting planning, or other…
Finding Dory Review: An Aquarist’s Point of View
The long awaited sequel to Disney’s Finding Nemo movie, Finding Dory, finally hit theaters this past weekend and I was thrilled to attend the film on opening weekend. Finding Dory’s producers marketed the heck out of this movie for at least a…
Dads and Tanks
The restaurants aren’t jam packed with patrons, there is no breakfast in bed and the cards are more funny than sentimental. But the grill is on, it’s Open weekend, and it’s the start of summer, so yes it is Father’s…
How to Reduce the Learning Curve of Keeping a Saltwater Aquarium
Since this hobby’s inception the dissemination of information has been one of the hallmarks of why we have gotten successful. But now that there is so much information, I sometimes question how it is we learn what works, especially when as…
Substrate Update
In 2016, the systems at Tidal Gardens are a mix of custom glass aquariums and Rubbermaid stock tanks. Originally back in 2002, all the tanks were some combination of 300-gallon and 150-gallon stock tanks because they were by far the…
Acropora palmata, the majestic and endangered elkhorn coral
Acropora palmata, the Elkhorn Coral, is the quintessential Caribbean Coral Reef species. This species was once so abundant that entire regions of the reef were called the ‘Palmata Zone’ and it was important to know where the palmata zones were,…
Swirling nutrient-rich eddies give fish a fighting chance for survival
A new study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), confirms the importance of eddies in the growth and development of larval fish. Researchers found that young fish reared in nutrient-rich eddies in the Straits of…
20 bucks very well spent on fish health
We all know we should quarantine our fish but unfortunately, most of us do not have a quarantine tank for a variety of reasons. Just a few excuses that are at least familiar to most of us include the fact that…
The Coral Name Game
It’s all in the name. The name says it all. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. We have all heard countless phrases that extol the importance of a name. Last names like Miller or Baker referred…
