Can We Create The Hobby We Want
Ret Talbot and Richard Ross From Reef Hobbyist MagaizineFrom Ret Talbots blog – My latest article, co-authored with friend and colleague biologist Richard Ross of the Steinhart Aquarium, published yesterday in Reef Hobbyist Magazine. In some ways, it represents a departure from my regular beat, and I thank editor Jim Adelberg for the concept and invitation to write the piece.
Look At That! Look At That! It’s Cephalopod Sunday! – Penn’s Sunday School
On April 6, 2014, I was on Pennâs Sunday School talking to Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau and Matt Donnelly about all kinds of stuff including the Bobbit worm. The iTunes blurb – “Rich Ross tells us horror stories about cephalopods and Jay Frank tells us about the newest ways to monetize music.” I am in and […]
Reef Threads Podcast #175
From Reef Threads Itâs our 175th podcast, also known as the Queenâs Plasma Centennial Jubilee podcast. This week we bring you a small bucketload of semi-interesting to absolutely fascinating discussion items about the reef-aquarium hobby, including NERAC events, Long Island Aquarium, collecting shore shrimp, Todd Gardner, Richard Ross and designer/feeder clownfish, instant-cycle goop from the […]
MBI Species Firsts
From Reefs.com, by Tal Sweet Part of the MBIâs goal is to promote captive breeding of new species that havenât been done before and to recognize the efforts of those that succeed. To be granted a species first award, the breeder must be able to provide proof of the date of the success via a […]
Designer Clownfish as feeder fish
Originally from Advanced Aquarist http://vimeo.com/89727849 This week, Chad Vossen of Vossen Aquatics and builder of the famed Vossen Larval Snagger, started feeding tiny clownfish, including Platinum clowns to his very young Dwarf Cuttlefish, Sepia bandensis. Cuttlefish hunting and feeding is always amazing to watch, but watching a cuttlefish hunt and eat a captive bred designer clownfish brings the experience […]