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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 for the 2017 PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award ~One of the 10 Best Popular Science Books of 2016: Biological Sciences, Forbes ~One of the Week's Best Science Picks, Nature ~A "Must Read"...

Map of Kenya This map is a United Nations map and considered to be part of the public domain. If you rank the countries in Africa by geographical area, Kenya is the 23rd country of 55, with an area of about 224,000 square miles, or slightly smaller than Texas. Kenya has a coastline of about 333 miles.* The coral reef in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Kenya, is the second longest in the world--the Great Barrier Reef is the first--extending from Somalia to Mozambique. Here is a short...

Part 3: Genicanthus Angel Species Details – The Fish That Angel Lovers Dream of. In the previous two articles, I talked about Genicanthus angels in general, and what distinguishes them from other angelfish in the Pomacanthidae family. In addition, I discussed the six species that are available for sale in the marine fish hobby. And in this third and final part, I’ll talk about the remaining four species that are very hard to acquire because of some challenges like rarity, remote...

Blue Tridacna crocea. Photo courtesy of Acro Al, ©2018, All Rights Reserved. Within modern taxonomy, currently the "giant clams", bivalve molluscs, are in the subfamily, Tridacninae, under the family, Cardiidae (the cockles), although some scientists still argue that these clams should be in their own family, Tridacnidae. The genus, Tridacna, holds the most common species within the marine aquarium trade, and aquarists usually refer to the "Tridacna clams." Tridacna clams are broadcast...

Are you ready for some fun? We’re so excited for the upcoming holidays that we’ve decided to have another caption contest, just like The New Yorker does. Our fantastic sponsors have helped us to come up with some AWESOME PRIZES. So sharpen your pencils and get ready. Here's cartoon #2! Cartoon is courtesy of Laura Yang for Reef2Reef, ©2018, All Rights Reserved. HOW TO ENTER This contest will be conducted inside our forum, so you first you have to register for our forum if you’re not...

Larry DuPont, the owner and founder of LRS Foods LLC, known to the Reef2Reef forum members as Reef Frenzy (foods), posted an interesting look inside how Reef Frenzy foods are made. We thought it would be useful to post it again here in the article section. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's hard to believe that it's been almost seven years since I blended up the first batch of food for our own fish on the kitchen table. I don't think anyone, myself included, could have imagined the popularity of the...

A view from inside the World Wide Corals store in Orlando, Florida. Photo is from the Reef2Reef archives courtesy of World Wide Corals, ©2018 All Rights Reserved. We thought it would be interesting for our readers to take a closer look at our sponsors. So, we’re going to profile them and help you get to know them a bit better. We value our sponsors immensely, and it can be revealing to get to know them behind the scenes. We’ll start with World Wide Corals, also known as WWC on the forum...

Today's profile number two (2) is of a reef aquarist who has had saltwater tanks for more than 15 years. R.L. lives in Florida, and after numerous snorkeling trips, on a lark he picked up a 35G aquarium at a garage sale and figured he give saltwater a try. He’s also an expert on seashells, and he volunteers at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel Island, the only museum in the United States devoted solely to seashells and mollusks. He spends as much time on Reef2Reef as his...

Are you ready for some fun? We’re so excited for the upcoming holidays that we’ve decided to launch a new caption contest, just like The New Yorker does. Our fantastic sponsors have helped us to come up with some AWESOME PRIZES. So sharpen your pencils and get ready. Here's cartoon #1! HOW TO ENTER This contest will be conducted inside our forum, so you first you have to register for our forum if you’re not on it already. Don’t worry, it’s free and it’s easy to register. Come up with...

Welcome to our first profile of a reef aquarist. We thought it would be interesting for our audience to read about different people who keep saltwater aquariums. I’ll tell you a bit about the person, and then we’ll move to a question and answer format, so you can hear about the person’s experience in his or her own words. So, without further ado…. ~~~~~~~~~ In the foothills of the Bluegrass mountains in the southeast US, there’s a reef aquarist, P.R., who has two (2) saltwater tanks, a...