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Silica Dosing: reef blasphemy or another form of nutrient export?

Posted on October 30th by Christine Williams.
[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 ...
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Even reef fish like a good massage

Posted on October 23rd by Christine Williams.
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 ...
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Are Yellow and Scopas tangs more than kissing cousins?

Posted on October 16th by Christine Williams.
[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 ...