by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Aug 26, 2014 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
Puget Sound King Crabs, exceptionally slowly growing crabs, with a massive adult body, are among the most colorful animals found in the Northeastern Pacific. They live most of their life in deep water, but come up into the shallows to molt, and incidentally display...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | May 19, 2014 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
What marine animals eat in their natural environment has always interested me. As an aquarist, and as a zoologist, I know that finding the proper food and feeding it in proper amounts is probably the most important factor in animal husbandry. In the natural...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Mar 21, 2014 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
As I write this, it is the vernal equinox, the so-called, “first day of spring,” or around here, in South-Central Montana, right now in 2014, it would be better termed one of the later days of winter. In the areas of the Salish Sea or Puget Sound, the seasonal dance...
