by CORAL Magazine | Mar 26, 2018 | Marine, News & Notes
Meet SoFi, the brainchild of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who have unleashed the first free-swimming, soft-bodied robotic fish with a mission of studying elusive sealife dwelling beyond the limits of most human divers. During test dives in...
by CORAL Magazine | Mar 24, 2018 | Marine, News & Notes
Science Magazine has published some of the most groundbreaking fish footage ever seen. It depicts a female deep-sea Fanfin Anglerfish (Caulophryne jordani) and her mate like never before. Researchers Kirsten and Joachim Jakobsen encountered the fish at 800 meters...
by CORAL Magazine | Mar 8, 2018 | Marine, News & Notes
This week, British daily newspaper The Guardian shared a truly shocking example of man-made pollution. “‘So much plastic!’: Diver Rich Horner captures video of himself swimming through a deluge of waste off the coast of Bali, Indonesia.” Watch...
by Matt Pedersen | Jan 17, 2018 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
One of the secrets of micro-reefkeeping is regular, 50-100% water changes. Even veteran marine aquarists can find this a new skill to learn. Here’s one approach. Pico Reefkeeping enthusiast Gena has been successfully keeping reef aquaria of larger sizes for...
by Matt Pedersen | Jan 2, 2018 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
Joey Jones of the YouTube channel TheCoralReefTalk embarked on his own Mason Jar reef tank project in 2016. While we’ve shown off many successful, often long-term aquariums, Jones seems to have taken a different approach than the others we’ve featured. As...