After leaving Chicago and rather successfully picking up on the west coast, IMAC West has shared on its website that it will not be happening in 2010, but is said to be postponed to 2011 “due to unforeseeable circumstances and resulting time constraints.”
When the economy contracts, apparently so does the abundance of reef conferences. We’ve [...]
We had corresponded a few times back and forth via e-mail. One or two messages later and I had the chance to talk with him on the phone–Skype to be more exact. I was admittedly hesitant to reach out to him on the chat client. His status read “University paperwork… grrr“.
“Japanese Deepwater Zoanthids” Photos by [...]
EcoTech Marine has issued a voluntary recall on their original battery cable which connects the Vortech Driver to the EcoTech Marine Battery Back Up. EcoTech has found that the Wireless Wave Driver may experience an electrical fault condition which can cause the cable connecting the driver to the battery to act as a “fuse” and [...]
A growing trend on forums, aquarium club websites, and even the mothership that is MASNA is the unfortunate act of scrapping. Scraping is when you copy and paste an article, or republish an RSS feed that you don’t own, on to another website. For writers who provide content like myself, it’s quite annoying.
Imagine if you [...]
The summer edition of Reefs Magazine is out and without a doubt the best issue to date. Thanks to Matt Wandell we even get some Chaetodont-reef tank love. Other writers rounding out the issue include: Richard Ross, Kevin Kohen, Chris Jury, Christine Williams, Michael Lukaczyn and James Passantino. Brief synopsis below:
Ceph-head Rich kicks off the [...]
A recent study has found that coral larvae can ‘hear’ sound and actually swim towards reef noise. Now scientists fear that noise pollution from humans may interfere with the sexual reporduction of important reef building coral species, such as Acropora.
Using speakers, scientists were able to show that coral larvae responded to acoustic cues that they [...]
