by CORAL Magazine | Jan 8, 2021 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Richard Ross documents a challenging year of coral breeding at the Albright Coral Spawning Lab, and his Secret Home Lab, in Ripe for Innovation. Read it in the January/February 2021 issue of CORAL Magazine. an partial excerpt from Ripe for Innovation, by Richard Ross,...
by James Lawrence | Jan 8, 2021 | CORAL - James Lawrence, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Excerpt from the Editor’s Page of the January/February 2021 issue of CORAL Magazine. This issue should probably come with a warning label: CAUTION—Contents may trigger obsessive, addictive, and budget-stretching behaviors. Who among us has not thrilled at the...
by Matt Pedersen | Nov 13, 2020 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
An amazing colony of fused Australian Tricolor Brain Coral, Platygyra sp., was recently received by Carolina Aquatics. Download a version of this image as a desktop/wallpaper here: (horizontal at 1900 X 1200, or vertical at 1200 X 1900). FUSED TRICOLOR BRAIN...
by James Lawrence | Nov 5, 2020 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
The Blue Velvet Sea Slug (Chelidonura varians) sucks in flatworms like a vacuum cleaner, but this trophic specialist usually can’t survive long in the aquarium. There were high hopes it would help win battles against flatworms, but these hardly ever came to fruition....
by Matt Pedersen | Oct 23, 2020 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Cover of CORAL Magazine Volume 17, Issue 5 – VERMES – November/December 2020. On the cover: Serpulid Feather Duster Worm, Protula magnifica: Denise Nielsen Tackett. Background: Dermal gills on Cushion Sea Star, Culcita novaeguineae: Larry P. Tackett Go to the Digital...
by CORAL Magazine | Oct 11, 2020 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
PROTULA MAGNIFICAMagnificent Feather Duster or Coco WormThis large serpulid feather-duster has a hard, calcareous tube that can reach about 1 cm in diameter. One characteristic of worms in the genus Protula is that, unlike most serpulids, they lack an operculum to...
