Silica Dosing: reef blasphemy or another form of nutrient export?
[caption id="attachment_11628" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Polar ice Diatoms, Dr. Gordon Taylor"][/caption] It has been long held that silica in reef tanks is bad, very, very bad. We avoid beach and play sand like it’s ...
Even reef fish like a good massage
Nothing beats a good spa treatment to erase the tension of a tough week at work—the manicure, pedicure, massage…the works. Reef fishes (and not just the females) know how to benefit from ...
Are Yellow and Scopas tangs more than kissing cousins?
[caption id="attachment_11114" align="aligncenter" width="575" caption="Photo by Gregory Schiemer"][/caption] Sometimes the best discoveries in science are happy accidents, and this year researchers at the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding uncovered some genetic ...






