Article Posted by ……..Marie Ag We heard it first when Ben Frable was SDMA’s guest speaker earlier this year, and now the news is in the mainstream — In 2018, Christmas arrived early for reef enthusiasts and marine fish keepers when it was announced that an unknown fish species had been discovered on northeastern Madagascar.…

Assessment of ocean acidification and warming on the growth, calcification, and biophotonics of a California grass shrimp

We had a great meeting with Charlotte Seid, Ph.D. – Benthic Invertebrates of the Southeastern Pacific in May. Dr. Charlotte Seid is the manager of the Benthic Invertebrate Collection at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Charlotte received her Ph.D. in Biology from MIT in 2014 and her undergraduate degree in Chemical and…

We had a wonderful presentation, April 26th, thanks to Allison Cusick (Woman Scientist), who spoke about her work with FjordPhyto by Vernet Lab… We learned a lot about Fjords, Phytoplankton and what they are. Fjords are narrow inlets along the coast with steep sided valleys carved by past glaciers. They can mainly be found in the…

Just around the corner can you believe it? Wow what a great year for San Diego Marine Aquarists as we enter into our 2nd year as a local reef club! Wow been a busy month that’s for sure….. we had a great time at SDMA Beach clean-up Dec 1st 2018 can you believe we collected…

 What a way to wind down summer before heading out to MACNA 2018 by meeting in North County at Shipwreck Cove, if you haven’t yet….plan to stop by one day! They have both saltwater and freshwater selections if your into either or both great selections on hand. Bob Fenner presented us with one of his…

Crystal Dynamic Aquarium Mfg Tour on July 21st 2018 was GREAT and a big Thank You to Zoya and Brent for hosting this event and walking us through the many steps that it takes to build their tanks. Found that there was much more to the planning stage to the completed stage setup in your…