Alright, alright, alright! We’ve been teasing you with innumerable posts about individual corals and novel colonies found at Kwajalein Atoll but now it’s time to blow your mind with some serious eye candy! If you thought scenery like this has…
Friday Smorgasbord: Sea Creatures, Drones and More
It’s the end of the workweek and time for another episode of the Friday Smorgasbord. News of strange sea creatures invading the shores of Southern California captured our attention this week when an 18-foot Oarfish washed up near the shore.…
Friday Smorgasbord: Fish Antifreeze, Aquaman, Zombie Fish and more
Welcome to the first Friday Smorgasbord of 2013! We hope to deliver you our fresh weekly buffet of tasty tidbits of news. We lead off this year’s first “Smorgi” with a tale about fish and other organisms with that actually create proteins…
“Diversity and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes” lecture tomorrow at California Academy of Sciences
The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is presenting “Diversity and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes,” a lecture by Dr. Luiz Rocha, as part of the Pritzker Lecture series. Rocha is the Assistant Curator, Ichthyology at the academy and…
Algae-grazing fish help preserve corals
We’ve all seen how algae can choke off corals in our home aquariums and the same holds true in the wild. But algae-grazing fish in the wild are doing their parts to keep algae levels low on natural reefs to…
Algae linked to chemical warfare vs. coral reefs
The growing list of things damaging coral reefs just got longer as a new study in Fiji has found some seaweeds actually produce chemicals that cause coral bleaching and suppresses photosynthesis. This could lead to more discoveries of similar seaweed…
Researchers ponder making coral reef resilient
Global warming, ships and boats coming aground, careless divers and natural diseases are threatening coral reefs globally at an alarming rate and the fragile reefs off the coast of Florida are no difference. In a recent article in the Miami…
Maintaining fish biomass at certain levels can save a reef
Maintaining fish stocking levels and overall biomass around coral reefs can play a vital role in their survival and prevent their eventual collapse. According to a new study overfishing and the loss of the overall reef biomass can generate a…
Excessive iron leads to dying “Black Reefs,” why iron control is essential to home aquaria
The negative effects of iron in a reef ecosystem can easily be seen in the haunting image of a once pristine reef ecosystem turned into a dark mat of algae and microbes choking the colorful and diverse life off the reef. In…
