WaterNotes

Color me green. Super green, even, with absolute envy. I heard via Herbie Hippocampus yesterday that there was a new resident over at Monterey Bay Aquarium: a female juvenile white shark.
I was lucky to see a white on display at the Aquarium several years ago. If you are even remotely [...]

Macroalgae, in recent years, have become a suspected reservoir of coral disease ever since the 2006 study where small corals placed in plastic containers had 100% mortality rates within 48 hours. After the din from the research, aquarium, and hobby community died down, people questioned if it was the methods in the experiment that [...]

Adult permit are absolutely enormous fish.  Trachinotus falcatus routinely average twenty to twenty-five pounds but the record holder for Florida waters was 51 lbs 8 ounces!  Its incredible then, to me, that such substantial adults start life as such a diminutive size. 
When I first began teaching in the IRL system, these tiny reddish and silver [...]

I thought I might take some time out every few field trips to start taking, logging, and posting photos of some of the juvenile fish and other creatures that inhabit Indian River Lagoon waters.  Since the lagoon is a nursery ground for several dozen fish species (perhaps hundreds in fact) there are many stages of [...]

Photo identification is a reliable method for identifying a large number of marine animals in the wild and is useful in observational tracking studies that help us understand the ranges and movements of individuals and groups.  Its especially valuable for animals which are simply too big or too large and dangerous to mark and release [...]

Its time for an update to our seagrass and seaweed library here at the ‘Notes.  Many of the following links lead to full blown papers for your reading pleasure.  A few lead only to abstracts, but if you’re lucky enough to make use of a nearby university’s library access, you’ll have the full paper.  Or, [...]

Thought some of you might like to see the incredibly technologically advanced methods we have in Florida for restoring red mangrove habitats. (Tongue. In. Cheek.)
Behold, the great PVC!

In all seriousness, its a good reality check for the plant enthusiasts in the marine aquarium hobby. Even the scientists havent entirely figured out how to make little red mangrove propagules happy in [...]