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Using some simple logic, test kit results improve in accuracy View the full article

Tom discusses feeding techniques that guarantee better livestock health. View the full article

Adding a pH probe an an existing reactor will make your reefing experience easier. View the full article

This month we are showcasing the Northern Valley Reefers (NVR). View the full article

Check out the latest upcoming events of interest to marine aquarists. View the full article

Top 10 Funniest Things You've Ever Heard Someone Say At A Local Fish Store (LFS)... View the full article

Let's See Your Big Colonies! View the full article

New tracking and observing technologies are giving marine conservationists a fish-eye view of conditions, from overfishing to climate change, that are contributing to declining fish populations, according to a new study. View the full article

A new study could help resolve a long-standing debate in shark paleontology: From which line of species did the modern great white shark evolve? View the full article

As the cold, dry climate of the western Antarctic Peninsula becomes warmer and more humid, phytoplankton -- the bottom of the Antarctic food chain -- is decreasing off the northern part the peninsula and increasing further south, marine scientists have discovered. View the full article

Anthropogenic, or human generated, sounds have the potential to significantly affect the lives of aquatic animals - from the individual animal's well-being, right through to its reproduction, migration and even survival of the species. Marine animals could suffer detrimental effects ranging from a loss of hearing to increased stressed levels as a result of environmental noise - in ways not dissimilar to humans and land animals. View the full article

Micro-algae are growing faster under the influence of climate change. However, the composition of the algae is changing, as a result of which their nutritional value for other aquatic life is decreasing. And because algae are at the bottom of the food chain, climate change is exerting an effect on underwater life. View the full article

Oceanographers describe a novel strategy for phytoplankton growth in the vast nutrient-poor habitats of tropical and subtropical seas. View the full article

Dust blown off the continents and deposited in the open ocean is an important source of nutrients for marine phytoplankton, the tiny algae that are the foundation of the ocean food web. But new findings show that some sources of dust also carry toxic elements that can kill marine phytoplankton. View the full article

Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the resulting effects on ocean water are making it increasingly difficult for coral reefs to grow, say scientists. A new study warns that if carbon dioxide reaches double pre-industrial levels, coral reefs can be expected to not just stop growing, but also to begin dissolving all over the world. View the full article

New England lobstermen have gone high tech by adding low-cost instruments to their lobster pots that record bottom temperature and provide data that could help ocean circulation modelers better understand processes in the Gulf of Maine, such as how lobster larvae and other planktonic animals and plants, including those that cause harmful algal blooms, drift and settle. This information may also help determine how ocean currents disperse pollutants, invasive species, and food for whales in portions of the Gulf of Maine. View the full article

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More than 58 rapid sea level rises in the last five million years could account for an apparently abrupt switch in the kinds in of mammals found along the Malay Peninsula in southeast Asia -- from mainland species to island species -- in the absence of any geographical barrier, ecologists say. View the full article

We usually think of fish as a "heart-healthy" food. Now fish are helping researchers better understand how heart disease develops in studies that could lead to new drugs to slow disease and prevent heart attacks. View the full article

The new species of Antarctic fish, Gosztonyia antarctica, has been discovered at a depth of 650 meters in the Bellingshausen Sea in the Antarctic Ocean, an area which has not been studied since 1904 and where the fauna is ?completely? unknown. View the full article

Scientists identified seven new species of bamboo coral in the deep waters of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Six of these species may represent entirely new genera, a remarkable feat given the broad classification a genus represents. Scientists expect to identify more new species as analysis of samples continues. View the full article

"Undesirable" evolution in fish -- which makes their bodies grow smaller and fishery catches dwindle -- can actually be reversed in a few decades' time by changing our "take-the-biggest-fish" approach to commercial fishing, according to groundbreaking new research. View the full article

A 300-million-year-old brain of a relative of sharks and ratfish has been revealed by French and American scientists using synchrotron holotomography. It is the first time that the soft tissue of such an old fossil brain has ever been found. View the full article

Researchers assembled a database of invasive animals and plants in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. The large numbers present included many nonindigenous fishes. The effect of the invasive species on salmonids was assessed by extrapolation from previous studies. The results indicate that non-native fishes, in particular, pose a major threat to native salmonids comparable to hatcheries, harvest, habitat loss, and changes to the hydrosystem. View the full article

It seems we're not the only ones struggling to adapt to the summer weather -- Australian researchers have found the increased temperatures may be affecting turtles too. Scientists found that green turtle hatchlings from Heron Island weren't swimming as well as expected. View the full article