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In this fourth article of our "Newbie Corner" column, Marc Levenson (melev) discusses everything you always wanted to know about sumps. View the full article

Steven discusses stocking your library with a variety of recommended books. View the full article

This month we are showcasing the Southern California Nano Reef Society. View the full article

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

Top Ten Reasons Why Reefkeepers Should Never Go On Vacation... (Part II) View the full article

Post Insane Ric Pics!! View the full article

Could be a combination of running out of food and the treatment. Inverts are sensitive.

Animal populations and the stock market are hard to forecast. Both are generated by complicated, interdependent systems. Unlike financial stocks, where trades are meticulously recorded, scientists began estimating animal populations only a few decades ago. But a new technique makes it possible to use the same tools some banks use to forecast the stock market and apply them to ecology. View the full article

Ancient armored fish fossils from Australia present some of the first definite fossil evidence of a forerunner to the human eye. Researchers analyzed the fossilized remains of 400-million-year-old Devonian placoderms -- jawed ancestors of modern fish whose bodies were protected by thick bony armor. Palaeobiologists discovered that unlike all living vertebrate animals -- which includes everything from the jawless lamprey fish to humans -- placoderms had a different arrangement of muscles and nerves supporting the eyeball -- evidence of an "intermediate stage" between the evolution of jawless and jawed vertebrates. View the full article

If they are eating it, should be fine!

Most soft corals do not last long in the captive reef tank. We still cant provide the kind of constant feeding without crashing our tank due to nutrient overload and yet provide clean water at the same time. Also the kind of water circulation needed by soft corals is hard to replicate unless you have a circular tank of sorts.

I feed mine twice a week. A big chunk of fish meat... snappet fillet. I found that it keeps longer than prawn meat and less messy and less preparation time than fresh prawns.

You have to remove all the pieces as they will rot and affect water quality. Use a hose to suck it up or try to net it up.

Woohooo! Another epic story in the making! Happy New Year, Jervis!

Up to 20 meters long and weighing as much as 20 tons, its enormous size gives the whale shark its name. Listed as a rare species, relatively little is known about whale sharks. However, a new study combines computer-assisted photographic identification with ecotourism to study the rare species and suggests whale shark populations in Ningaloo, Western Australia are healthy. The study appears in the Ecological Society of America's January issue of Ecological Applications. View the full article

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A new study reveals that prawns can be used by fish species to find the best places to eat. Research into the behavior patterns of sticklebacks highlights the fact they use prawns to determine the best place to be. Prawns, it seems however, don't have the same aptitude to use the sticklebacks for their advantage. View the full article

Guess mind would be to do something about it to add more new stuff in it. Its been status quo for 2 years i think.....

The loss of deep-sea species poses a severe threat to the future of the oceans, suggests a new report in Current Biology. In a global-scale study, the researchers found some of the first evidence that the health of the deep sea, as measured by the rate of critical ecosystem processes, increases exponentially with the diversity of species living there. View the full article

Professional fishery is in many sea areas a serious ecological threat to the maritime environment. On the other hand, changes in the environment, e.g. the increase of fish-eating animals like seals and cormorants, may impact the fisheries. One of the new guiding principles of political decision-making in fishery issues is that a holistic "ecosystems approach" should be used instead of traditional protection of fish populations. View the full article

Environmental scientists will be trying to determine whether American eels -- the slimy, snake-like fish considered worldwide to be a food delicacy -- are dying from chemical pollution in Lake Ontario. Declared a "species of concern" under Canada's new Species at Risk Act, American eels have until recently supported a multi-million-dollar historic fishery in Ontario and an even larger industry in Quebec. But with rapidly decreasing numbers of eels, the Ontario fishery has been closed and the Quebec fishery is in serious decline. View the full article

Could be detritus? You can filter it with fine wool.

People suffering from chronic mental or physical disabilities should not resort to a dolphin "healing" experience, warn two researchers. The scientists have launched an educational campaign countering claims made by purveyors of what is known as dolphin-assisted therapy. While swimming with dolphins may be a fun, novel experience, no scientific evidence exists for any long-term benefit from 'dolphin-assisted therapy.' View the full article

Hey everyone, Seasons greetings to all!!!

I think chilling them is fine. Frozen eggs then to thaw badly from zero to 25C and could rupture in the water column before they are eaten. You don't want to increase the bioload in the water for nothing.