My online works
In addition to what is available at AHABS, here are my online articles. If you find that any of the links are broken, then please contact me through my blog.
Generalized Topics
- Building A DIY BS-o-meter
- Looking For The Small Things In Life: Looking For The Small Things In Life Part 1. Microscopes, Types, and Considerations.
- Looking For The Small Things In Life. Part 2. Observation With A Compound Microscope.
Aquarium Chemistry
- Down the Drain, Exports From Reef Aquaria
- Our Coral Reef Aquaria – Our Own Personal Experiments in the Effects of Trace Element Toxicity.
- What We Put In The Water
- It's (In) The Water
- It Is Still In The Water
- The Toxicity of Some Freshly Mixed Artificial Sea Water: A Bad Beginning For A Reef Aquarium
- Chemical Supplements
- Replacement Chemistry: Supplementation Necessary To Maintain Calcium, Magnesium and Alkalinity Levels In Reef Aquaria.
Aquarium Ecology
- Reef Aquaria as Ecosystems
- The Infamous Detritivore
- Oh, Bartender, I'll Have A Glass Of “Old Aggression” On The Rocks
- How Sands REALLY Work
- Feeding The Reef Aquarium, A New Paradigm
- Live Rock As A Biological Filter: Hit Or Myth?
- The Paradox Of A Consistent Need For Variation
- Reef Stability, A Moving Target
- Foods In Bits and Pieces (Suspension Feeding)
- Phytoplankton A Necessity For Clams
- Filter-Feeding Food, Featherdusters, And Phytoplankton http://www.dtplankton.com/articles/filterfood.html
- Feeding Begets Food, 1 or… Food Production By Design, How A Deep Sand Bed Can Produce Food For Reef Inhabitants.
- Feeding Begets Food, 2 or… Food Production By Design, Using A Refugium To Produce Food For Reef Inhabitants.
- Necessary Nutrition, Foods and Supplements, A Preliminary Investigation.
Marine Animals
General, Several Groups:
- Invertebrate Strippers
- Invertebrate Differences
- Life Styles of the Small and Minute: Some Consequences Of Tininess
- Waste Extraction, The Invertebrate Way
- Faunal Extinctions and Coral Reefs: What Can Hobbyists Do?
- Why Are There So Many Kinds Of Reef Animals?
Annelida, Polychaeta
- Spaghetti and Hairworms, What's In a Name?
- Polychaete Annelid Identification, or “You Can Always Tell A Bristle Worm…”
- The Large Worm Turns
- The Worms Crawl In…
Arthropoda, Chelicerata
Pycnogonida
- And Along Came A Spider…
Arthropoda, Crustacea,
General:
- You Can't Tell Your Pods Without A Program
Copepoda
- Bitty Bugs: Copepods in the Reef Aquarium
Isopoda
- Pills, Parasites, and Predators: Isopods In The Reef Aquarium
Amphipoda
Mysidacea
- Aquarium Possums – Mysids in the Aquarium
Tanaidacea
- Odd Pods, Tanaids in Reef Aquaria
Malacostraca, Decapoda, Brachyura
Brachiopoda
- Featherless Duster Worms and Lamp Shells
Bryozoa
Chordata
Coldwater Scorpion Fish
- Coldwater Scorpaenids – The Rockfishes of the Northeastern Pacific
Cnidaria
- Things With Stings
- The Life and Death of Sea Pens
- Be A Host To Your Anemone
Ctenophora
- 10-oh-4, Good Buddy!
Echinodermata
General:
- Echinoderms, Unique and Odd
- The Meat Of The Matter
- Echinoderms In Aquaria
Asteroidea
- We Owe A Lot To Brainless Dominance
Echinoidea
- Sea Urchins, A Testy Subject
Mollusca
- The Mollis Clans – A Celebration of Molluscan Diversity
Mollusca, Bivalvia
- Okay, Clamrades, the Meeting Will Come To Order…
Mollusca, Gastropoda,
Prosobranchia
- White Spots On Walls
- The Grazing Snails, Part I – Turbo , Trochus , Astraea , and Kin
- The Grazing Snails, Part II – Abalones, Limpets, and Nerites
- The Grazing Snails, Part III – Conchs, Cowries, and Columbellids
- Snails That Worm Their Way Into Tanks
- Identify This: Conchs and Whelks
- Identify This: Rissoid and Pyramidellid Snails
- Nassarius Snails As Scavengers In Reef Aquaria
Gastropoda
Nudibranchia
- ReefSlides – Sea Slug Slide Show
- Naked… Gills on Snails
- Beautiful, but Unwelcome; Aeolid Nudibranchs in the Reef Aquarium
Nematoda
Nemertea
- Tie A Yellow Ribbon (Worm) Around The Old Reef Rock
Porifera
- Identification and Husbandry of Aquarium Sponges
- Sponges: A Bunch Of Holes Held Together by Some Cells
Protozoa
- Foraminiferans
Rotifera
- Nano-Animals, Part 1: Rotifers
Sipuncula
Urochordata
- Tunicates or Sea Squirts: A Wet Link
Ron Shimek