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Intermediate Topic
Fish and Music
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...
Reef Spotlight
Reef of the Month, March 2019, @samparker
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...
Welcome to the R2R Cartoon Caption Contest for March 2019.
Put your thinking caps on, sharpen your pencils, and give us a caption for the cartoon below.
This cartoon is by Laura Yang for Reef2Reef. ©2019, All Rights Reserved.
HOW TO ENTER
This contest will be conducted inside our forum...
Beginner Topic
A Soft Start to Corals
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...
Beginner Topic
Feeding Routines
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...
NOOPSYCHE is LIGHTING UP YOUR REEF AGAIN!!
And this time there are THREE WINNERS!!
I don't know if you've been following @noopsyche and their brand new K7 ProII reef light, but this one is making waves already in the reef community! You can check out @Dana Riddle's testing of the Noopsyche K7...
Spotlight
Book Review--Deep by James Nestor
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...
Spotlight
The Blobfish: The World's Ugliest Fish?
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...
Spotlight
Shellfish Poisoning Syndromes Part 2
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...
Spotlight
Shellfish Poisoning Syndromes Part 1
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...
Reef of the Month, February 2019
All photos are courtesy of @sever10, ©2019, All Rights Reserved.
Drum Roll Please
We are delighted to announce our February 2019 Reef of the Month belongs to our forum member, sever10, from Poland. Sever10 has a beautiful reef which you will see below. He...
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...
Spotlight
Cartoon Caption Contest #3
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...
Spotlight
Profile of a Reef Aquarist (#3)
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...
Spotlight
A Tour of the Class, Cephalopoda
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...
Beginner Topic
The Curing Live Rock Bible and FAQ
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...
Beginner Topic
Tips for Getting the Most From the Reef2Reef Forum
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...
Personal Experience
Breeding the Banggai Cardinalfish
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...
Reef Spotlight
January 2019 Reef of the Month: Michael J. Cuttone
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.
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