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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." Henry David Thoreau We have among us, down in Arizona, a reef aquarist with a very different reef tank. @Exclusive...

Filtering your tank by using “algae to fight algae” has been gaining in popularity in the last few years. We are biased about this, because we invented the waterfall and upflow designs that everyone uses now, but nevertheless we wanted to make this in-depth series about everything, including...

Deep by James Nestor Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition (June 24, 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 0547985525 ISBN-13: 978-0547985527 A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice An Amazon Best Book of the Month Amazon Best Science Book of 2014...

The blobfish, Psychrolutes marcidus, belongs to the same genus as the more familiar blob sculpin Psychrolutes phrictus in the family Psychrolutidae. Blobfish are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean. They get their name because they...

Mussels. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay. This is Part 2 of our article on Shellfish Poisoning Syndromes. We'll pick up with the fourth subtype in our list. 4. Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning It’s a bit odd that this type of shellfish poisoning is labeled “diarrhetic” when ASP...

A mussel farm in Croatia. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay. Preface: I’ve always been a bit leery about eating shellfish. In the 1980’s, when I lived in Europe, I ate more than my fair share of raw oysters, cooked mussels, and crab. I knew that shellfish can make people sick, and I...

A shipwreck off of Honduras. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay. Artificial reefs are something we hear about on a regular basis. There is a growing interest in creating artificial reefs for a few reasons: because of the destruction of natural reefs, which is hopefully slowing down, and...

Seawitch submitted a new Article: Cartoon Caption Contest #3 IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!!! Tomorrow is February 1, 2019. My, how time flies when you're having fun. Welcome to the R2R Cartoon Caption Contest #3. Put your thinking caps on, sharpen your pencils, and give us a caption for the cartoon...

Simon Ellis (R2R member @ca1ore), a Connecticut reefer with 30 years of experience, is a frequent contributor to the Reef2Reef Articles Section. He recently wrote the article about building your own Algal Turf Scrubber (ATS), and the article about automatic water changes. He's the perfect...

The class, Cephalopoda, falls under the phylum, Mollusca. While cephalopods are not commonly kept in home aquariums, they remain an extremely diverse and interesting group. Many of the cephalopods are very short-lived (octopus), many are very difficult to keep alive in captivity (squid), some...

Book Review: What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe Publisher: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition (stated), First Printing edition (June 7, 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 0374288216 ISBN-13: 978-0374288211 ~Longlisted...

Map of Kenya This map is a United Nations map and considered to be part of the public domain. If you rank the countries in Africa by geographical area, Kenya is the 23rd country of 55, with an area of about 224,000 square miles, or slightly smaller than Texas. Kenya has a coastline of about...

Part 3: Genicanthus Angel Species Details – The Fish That Angel Lovers Dream of. In the previous two articles, I talked about Genicanthus angels in general, and what distinguishes them from other angelfish in the Pomacanthidae family. In addition, I discussed the six species that are available...

Blue Tridacna crocea. Photo courtesy of Acro Al, ©2018, All Rights Reserved. Within modern taxonomy, currently the "giant clams", bivalve molluscs, are in the subfamily, Tridacninae, under the family, Cardiidae (the cockles), although some scientists still argue that these clams should be in...

Are you ready for some fun? We’re so excited for the upcoming holidays that we’ve decided to have another caption contest, just like The New Yorker does. Our fantastic sponsors have helped us to come up with some AWESOME PRIZES. So sharpen your pencils and get ready. Here's cartoon #2...

Larry DuPont, the owner and founder of LRS Foods LLC, known to the Reef2Reef forum members as Reef Frenzy (foods), posted an interesting look inside how Reef Frenzy foods are made. We thought it would be useful to post it again here in the article section. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's hard to believe...

A view from inside the World Wide Corals store in Orlando, Florida. Photo is from the Reef2Reef archives courtesy of World Wide Corals, ©2018 All Rights Reserved. We thought it would be interesting for our readers to take a closer look at our sponsors. So, we’re going to profile them and help...

Today's profile number two (2) is of a reef aquarist who has had saltwater tanks for more than 15 years. R.L. lives in Florida, and after numerous snorkeling trips, on a lark he picked up a 35G aquarium at a garage sale and figured he give saltwater a try. He’s also an expert on seashells, and...

Are you ready for some fun? We’re so excited for the upcoming holidays that we’ve decided to launch a new caption contest, just like The New Yorker does. Our fantastic sponsors have helped us to come up with some AWESOME PRIZES. So sharpen your pencils and get ready. Here's cartoon #1! HOW...

Welcome to our first profile of a reef aquarist. We thought it would be interesting for our audience to read about different people who keep saltwater aquariums. I’ll tell you a bit about the person, and then we’ll move to a question and answer format, so you can hear about the person’s...