by CORAL Magazine | Aug 25, 2023 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Torch Coral, Euphyllia glabrescens, at wholesaler Aquatic Realm International in Dallas, Texas. Photo by Michael Vargas/MVargas Photography. The remarkable tenure of James M. Lawrence (1946–2023), editor and publisher of CORAL since 2009, comes to an end with the...
by Vincent Chalias | Aug 22, 2023 | CORAL - Vincent Chalias, Marine, News & Notes
The Banggai Cardinal, Pterapogon kauderni is an iconic and rare fish, but is it still threatened? A new proposed draft rule to prevent the US import and export of the Banggai Cardinal (Pterapogon kauderni) under the Endangered Species Act, would do vastly more harm...
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 4, 2023 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Cover of CORAL Magazine Volume 20, Issue 4: RABBIT FISHES (July/August 2023). On the cover: Coral Rabbitfish, Siganus corallinus. Franco Banfi/Nature Picture Library/Science Photo Library. Background: Micromussa lordhowensis. MVargas Photography at Vibrant Corals,...
by Vincent Chalias | Jul 28, 2023 | CORAL - Vincent Chalias, Marine
A Leptoseris sp hard (stony) coral colony living under an overhang, and harboring green Ostreobium, a symbiotic endolithic algae Reef aquarists are quite familiar with the endolithic life (“living within or penetrating deeply into stony substances”),...
by Vincent Chalias | Jul 19, 2023 | CORAL - Vincent Chalias, Marine
Coral-killing sponges just overgrow corals and take over their skeletons as prime real estate, killing them in the process. That’s what a coral-killing sponge does. As if the list of threats to corals wasn’t long enough: climate change, pollution,...
