The ocean. I hope that the knack many Japanese have for keeping reef aquaria hints at possible outcomes for this coral transplant project… “We have been replanting forests for 4,000 years, but we are only just now learning how to revive a coral reef,” said Mineo Okamoto, a marine biologist at Tokyo University of Marine [...]
January 13, 2009
AIMS (Australian Institute of Marine Science) CORAL SEARCH BACK ONLINE?! LINK & LOVE If you hadn’t taken notice, the old Coral Search identification site has been down for quite some time, but it now seems to be back in a new and improved version! Forgive me if this is old news (!!!), but I was [...]
July 30, 2008
I’ve got a small dilemma. Per usual, as in, every summer, I get a little lax about tank maintenance. So this last week has been spent doing a bit of cleaning, water changes, scrubbing, scraping, rearranging, and what not. The dilemma is this: Xenia umbellata. I know it’s the scourge of many reef tanks out [...]
January 9, 2008
What better way to blow some of my Christmas bonus than on more stuff for an aquarium?… Yeah, that’s what I thought too… Tank lights are off early tonight for… this: and these: And after those little guys get used to the tank, I’ll add this to the mix: The Vortech, yeah. I’m going to [...]
December 14, 2007
For the last 3 evenings after dosing the Ultra, I’ve noticed mesenterial filaments from my acro, something I’ve rarely witnessed before. From what I remember in coral biology classes, it can be a normal feeding reaction, or elsewhere in the spectrum, defensive. Given the circumstances and idea behind the products (i.e. feeding coral in low [...]
December 13, 2007
ScienceDaily (Sep. 13, 2007) — For the first time in history, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species includes ocean corals in its annual report of wildlife going extinct. A comprehensive study of marine life sponsored by Conservation International (CI) and implemented jointly with the IUCN (World Conservation Union) used data from the Galapagos-based Charles [...]
October 31, 2007
When I started this blog I took shots of some frags to compare growth over time. I went back to compare top that image, and unfortunately, a) the image of the frags is small and not clear b) I can’t find the originals from the camera. So, I’ll start fresh. Here’s a pic. More to [...]
October 8, 2007
Dosed a vial of bioptim, per my schedule. This is only the 2nd addition of bioptim, since I’m starting with a 3 week schedule of it. Walked up to the tank a couple hours after I added it, and I am seeing polyp extension on a certain acro that I have never seen fully extended. [...]
September 27, 2007
I used to feed DT’s oyster eggs & frozen cyclopeeze every week or so, along with some squid to the duncan. Last spring I ordered a big sack of live mysis from Reef Nutrition, and dumped them all in. I haven’t been feeding for some time because the food I had thawed while defrosting the [...]
April 15, 2009
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