Richard Ross joins the all-star lineup of new Reef Builders contributors

Reef Builders is beyond excited to announce the addition of Richard Ross to our featured contributors! Richard is known for his “Skeptical Reefkeeping” article series, his one-of-a-kind presentations, his coral spawning and cephalopod research, the Reef Beef Podcast, and for managing…

Larger Pacific Striped Octopus is rediscovered, comes from Nicaragua

The Larger Pacific Striped Octopus is one extraordinary cephalopod that has been known about before, but somehow fell into obscurity despite it’s overwhelming awesomeness as a living creature. In the Photo above by Roy Caldwell you can easily see that…

2012 MBI Marine Breeders Workshop – July 28th

It’s official, the Marine Breeding Initiative’s 2o12 Marine Breeder’s Workshop is scheduled for July 28th. It will be held once again at the wonderfully inviting Cranbrook Science Institute, located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This year’s workshop will follow the same…

Richard Ross: Collecting/Farming in Tonga

Sitting down and listening to Richard Ross giving us the inside slant at farming and collecting corals in Tonga was a pleasure. Rich,who besides working at the famous Steinhart Aquarium, California Academy of Sciences is a cephalopod guru. Farming in…