新的濒危珊瑚统治威胁着您种植珊瑚的权利

In 2012, the NOAA made it known that they were considering listing 66 stony coral species as threatened. After receiving extensive public comments to the tune of 42,000 letters and emails along with another 32,000 emails after extending the comments…

准备很多激动人心的圣ories from the Fluval Sea Flores Expedition

We’re back from the Flores Sea with loads of exciting observations and documentation on the reefs of this part of Indonesia. With support from Fluval Sea and no less than nine months of planning, we succeeded in diving and surveying and…

National Marine Fisheries Service extends endangered coral ruling by six months

The American reef aquarium hobby can breathe a little easier today, at least for another 6 months. Having received a deluge of public comments and lots of criticisms from coral researchers and scientists, the National Marine Fisheries Service is extending…

Reef Hobby needs YOU: call for comments regarding ESA coral listing

On December 7, 2012, NOAA published a proposed rule in the Federal Register (77 FR 73219) in response to a petition submitted by the Center for Biological Diversity to list 83 reef-building coral species as threatened or endangered under the…

Breaking: NOAA announces the proposal to list 66 stony coral species as endangered or threatened

Just hours ago NOAA and the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) made public their intention to move forward with the proposal to list 66 species of stony corals under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). You may recall that three years…

Vivid Aquariums is currently offering an incredible motherlode of diverse Acropora

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZjPArl5fE[/youtube] We’ve visited Vivid Aquariums many times before but we were absolutely floored by the incredible diversity of Acropora that Vivid is currently offering for sale. Now we’ve seen quite a few stores get loaded up on maricultured…

The showstopping Acropora colonies of Michael Moye (and a great experience with the Avast Marine Porthole)

迈克尔·莫耶(Michael Moye)是居住在格林威治康涅狄格州(Greenwich Connecticut)的资深礁石水产师,他是一个高能量500加仑礁坦克的所有者,该水龙头已经推动了十多年的息肉 - 确切地说是1996年。我们有…

80 Species of stony corals could be added to Endagered Species list

There is an Arizona based environmental group that has started a petition that calls for protection of 80 species of stony corals. Effectively putting them on the Endangered Species list. While 83 were specifically stated, only 80 have made it…

请愿书目标是83种美国濒危物种清单保护的珊瑚物种

The Center for Biological Diversity recently prepared and filed a scientific petition to have 83 coral species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The petition, filed on October 20, 2009, looks to use the powers of…