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An anthias from our March 2019 Reef of the Month. A banjo was added by the editor. Anthias photo is courtesy of @samparker. ©2019, All Rights Reserved. The editor photoshopped the photo for this article. Musical Fish Music is an intrinsic part of the human experience, and we’re willing to...

Display Tank. Photos are all courtesy of @samparker, ©2019, All Rights Reserved. We are delighted to announce our March 2019 Reef of the Month belongs to our forum member, samparker, from Australia. samparker has a beautiful reef which you will see below. Sam has six tanks plumbed together in...

The article below is a brief introduction to soft corals for beginner aquarists. This is, by no means, an exhaustive treatment of soft coral husbandry. Example of soft coral: mushroom coral. Photo is from the Reef2Reef archives, courtesy of @John3 ©2019, All Rights Reserved. Soft corals...

A photo for inspiration: a shot of Michael J. Cuttone's Reef2Reef January 2019 Reef of the Month. This photo is from the Reef2Reef archives, courtesy of Michael J. Cuttone, ©2019, All Rights Reserved. Some time ago, I asked forum members about their feeding routines. I was interested to see...

Deep by James Nestor Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition (June 24, 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 0547985525 ISBN-13: 978-0547985527 A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice An Amazon Best Book of the Month Amazon Best Science Book of 2014...

The blobfish, Psychrolutes marcidus, belongs to the same genus as the more familiar blob sculpin Psychrolutes phrictus in the family Psychrolutidae. Blobfish are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean. They get their name because they...

Mussels. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay. This is Part 2 of our article on Shellfish Poisoning Syndromes. We'll pick up with the fourth subtype in our list. 4. Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning It’s a bit odd that this type of shellfish poisoning is labeled “diarrhetic” when ASP...

A mussel farm in Croatia. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay. Preface: I’ve always been a bit leery about eating shellfish. In the 1980’s, when I lived in Europe, I ate more than my fair share of raw oysters, cooked mussels, and crab. I knew that shellfish can make people sick, and I...

A shipwreck off of Honduras. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay. Artificial reefs are something we hear about on a regular basis. There is a growing interest in creating artificial reefs for a few reasons: because of the destruction of natural reefs, which is hopefully slowing down, and...

Seawitch submitted a new Article: Cartoon Caption Contest #3 IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!!! Tomorrow is February 1, 2019. My, how time flies when you're having fun. Welcome to the R2R Cartoon Caption Contest #3. Put your thinking caps on, sharpen your pencils, and give us a caption for the cartoon...

Simon Ellis (R2R member @ca1ore), a Connecticut reefer with 30 years of experience, is a frequent contributor to the Reef2Reef Articles Section. He recently wrote the article about building your own Algal Turf Scrubber (ATS), and the article about automatic water changes. He's the perfect...

The class, Cephalopoda, falls under the phylum, Mollusca. While cephalopods are not commonly kept in home aquariums, they remain an extremely diverse and interesting group. Many of the cephalopods are very short-lived (octopus), many are very difficult to keep alive in captivity (squid), some...

Live rock. This photo is a royalty-free image courtesy of Adrianna Calvo from Pexels This is an article for beginners. Since I didn’t see a sticky or article on this topic, I decided to tackle it myself. There are lots of differing opinions on how to cure live rock, and I’m going to explore...

Book Review: What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe Publisher: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition (stated), First Printing edition (June 7, 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 0374288216 ISBN-13: 978-0374288211 ~Longlisted...

Clown Triggerfish, Balistoides conspicillum. Photo is from the Reef2Reef archives, courtesy of @Darryl, ©2019, All Rights Reserved. If you're new to online discussion forums or just new to Reef2Reef, this article is for you. Much of the information that I'm going to give you, here, is already...

Banggai cardinalfish. Photo is from the Reef2Reef archives, courtesy of @MarvinsReef, ©2019, All Rights Reserved. Banggai cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni, are native to a small area around Indonesia. They are very popular in the marine aquarium trade and considered endangered in the wild. A...

Drum Roll Please! We will be bringing back Reef of the Month starting right now. It is with great pleasure and admiration that Reef2Reef awards Michael J. Cuttone from New York our Reef of the Month Award for January 2019. Mike's forum name is MJC, and his build thread can be found here. Below...