Current Issue

The March/April 2010 Issue of CORAL features cover articles on the realities of energy use in keeping a marine aquarium, with expert ideas and advice on technologies and techniques (some costing nothing) that can significantly trim the expense of running lights, pumps, skimmers, and other reef paraphernalia.

• Energy costs may be rising, but the aquarium world is responding with radical new technologies and changes in husbandry that can bring big savings to marine aquarists.  The March/April issue features articles by Daniel Knop, Jake Adams, Dr. Dieter Brockman on how to make your reef more energy efficient and easier to manage.

• Sea anemones have a poor history of survival in the aquarium, in part because there is so much faulty information on their feeding habits and requirements. Dr. Ronald Shimek sets the record straight with candid advice on how these amazing animals gain nourishment and how to handle their appetites and nutritional needs in your aquarium.

• See fish anatomies as you have never seen them before in an astonishing portfolio of images by marine biologist and creative photographer Matthew Wittenrich. You'll never look at fish in the same way again.

• More: A marine zoologist takes an unvarnished look at the realities of climate change, Inken Krause profiles a rare cousin of the Marine Betta, Stephen Gohmann talks about pH and how to monitor it, and Martin Moe has a word about aquarium keepers as hands-on marine scientists.