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SOLAR SYMBIONTS

VOLUME 18, NUMBER 5

9 Editor’s Page by James M. Lawrence
10 Reef News:
CORAL staff reports
20 Reef Visions
by Matt Pedersen

FEATURE ARTICLES
28 Solar Symbionts — Casting new light on the ancient partnership of reef-building corals and the micro-algae known as zooxanthellae, family Symbiodiniaceae by John E. Parkinson, Ph.D. and Todd C. LaJeunesse, Ph.D.
50 Genus Hemiscyllium: Epaulette Sharks — The walking elasmobranchs
by Scott W. Michael

AQUARIUM PORTRAIT
68 Melev’s Reef — Live long and prosper: Lessons learned in an ever-evolving 400-gallon Texas marine system
by Matt Pedersen with Marc Levenson

DEPARTMENTS
81 Species Spotlight: Magical mushrooms, Ricordea spp. CORAL staff report
89 Reefkeeping 101: Good Fish, Bad Fish; Part II Quelling the “must have” impulse at your local aquarium shop: The right way to choose reef livestock
by Dr. Dieter Brockmann
94 Advanced Aquatics — Nitrification in marine aquaria: A fresh look at the microbes in healthy reef systems
by Timothy A. Hovanec, Ph.D.
104 CORAL Sources:
Outstanding aquarium shops
106 CORALexicon:
Technical terms that appear in this issue
108 Reef Marketplace: The marine products showcase
110 Letter From Europe
by Daniel Knop
112 Advertiser Index
114 Reef Life:
by Larry P. Tackett and Denise Nielsen Tackett

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