by Matt Pedersen | Jan 11, 2019 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
THE BUTTERFLY CHRONICLES, Part 2 (read Part 1) One aquarist’s evolving views on keeping the “Impossible Corallivores” text and images by Matthew W. Pedersen Excerpt from CORAL Magazine, Jan/Feb 2019 Every guide to marine aquarium fishes puts up a red flag alert for...
by Matt Pedersen | Jan 11, 2019 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
Above: Video by Tanne Hoff documenting the successful husbandry of the Red Sea’s Hooded Butterflyfish, Chaetodon larvatus, regarded as a staunch corallivore in the wild. When we believe for decades that something is impossible, we tend to get stuck in our ways....
by Matt Pedersen | Jan 4, 2019 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
What better way to start off the New Year and an issue on Micromussa than to talk with Kris Cline, founder of Carolina Aquatics in Kernersville, North Carolina, and Jeffrey Slemp of Cuttle Fish and Corals in Portland, Oregon? Both professional aquarists have...
by Matt Pedersen | Dec 20, 2018 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater, Marine
The Maryland-based YouTube phenom Mok-Yi Chow, who calls himself the Inappropriate Reefer, has a thriving channel which has achieved some 3.8 million views at this time. One of his latest uploads takes the viewer on a whirlwind tour of Hong Kong’s astonishing...
by Matt Pedersen | Nov 29, 2018 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
“Join me on a dive in one of our Acropora baby tanks in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. All of the A. surculosa and A. digitifera were raised from eggs in Guam in 2015 and 2016. Sorry for the shaky camera; I have to improve my camera-holding-device (and my own skills, I...
