a whiff of grapeshot

I came across an interesting interview with Giacomo Bernardi, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, while listening to one of my favorite podcast, Science Sort Of..., and I wanted to share it with community at ReefAddicts. They talk about the unusual behavior of a particular wrasse that was observed in nature. It is the first fish ever reported to use tools!
Here is the link to the podcast episode which I strongly recommend everyone listen ...

I've had this coral for about 3 months and it was doing great. I fragged a piece off and it was doing good in my tank too. In the lastfew days I've noticed that it started to slump over and it's stopped opening up. This morning I found it like this. I tested my water and everything is fine; pH is within range, ammonia is 0, nitrite is 0, nitrate close to none, and phosphate is 0. The salinity is also within range though I've never really had problems with that. There is some discoloration happening ...

Early one morning...

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i was worried that my new green mandarin was going to starve after it ate all the copepods off the glass and the rocks. so i came up with an idea to use an 3 way breeder left over from my freshwater days as a mini refugium in my 40g tank. i stuffed it with cheato and let it float, it worked pretty good im a tank my size. the copepods reproduce and spread throughout the tank and when i think the cheato is "low" on copepods, i switch it out with "fresh" cheato from my refugium. ...

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