"Why so involved in wildlife and ocean conservation?" I asked Scott Artis, conservationist extraordinaire, with 8 years in the Biotech realm and a degree in Environmental Sciences and Fisheries & Wildlife.

"Well, it's a calling that can't be fully or simply explained..."Scott answered, continuing to reiterate his love for marine and wildlife.

Regardless of how well he himself can explain his reasoning, Scott is proving to The Reef Tank and the rest of the world, that he loves it and he's in it to make a difference.  With two online conservation resources under his belt, it looks like he's going places.

Scott is the creator of JournOwl, a site that started as an online record to post his daily activities at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum and turned into a wildlife conservation log dedicated to promoting wildlife conservation and wlidlife news.  He also continues his own volunteerism to promote wildlife conservation.

This doesn't seem to be enough for Scott, as he also created Thriving Oceans.  Originally the online site of a nonprofit conservation organization, it evolved from an NGO to a website disseminating ocean news, opinions, conservation efforts, and research in a blog format.

The Reef Tank interviewed Scott to ask him about this very website and his latest efforts to promote ocean and marine conservation.

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Most reefers have a ton of tools laying around to manipulate corals, make frags and retrieve lost items from the bottom of the tank. Tweezers, hemostats and clippers have become an important part of  reefkeeping. Annoyingly, they are often kept out of reach, or worse, rested on top of the tank where they can rust [...]

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Das Korallenriff-Aquarium is brand new reefing book brought to us by the legendary Svein Fossa and Alf Nilsen, authors of the seminal Modern Coral Reef Aquarium series. If you were reefing in the mid-nineties your reef upbringing was likely shaped either by Sprung & Delbeek or by Fossa & Nilsen. Although The Reef Aquarium was [...]

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Recently livestock retailers have begun using the J word again--"Japanese". In this industry if you add Japanese, Australian or Deepwater before any animal, a premium pricetag is married to the name. Very rarely do these animals live up their marketing description and in some cases that's a good thing, because they may put someone behind bars. If you see a coral labeled as Japanese, outside of Japan, be wary. Here's why Related posts:

1. Illegal and Trendy Japanese Corals, Yay or Nay? The image below was provided to my by Mr. Koji Wada,...
2. Stunning Japanese Aquariums From CP Farm Most of you have probably stumbled across at least one...
3. LiveAquaria’s Frag Plug Guide Helps ID Origins of Commercially Propagated Corals In the past few years a few commercial coral farms,...

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No, this is not an adult website. But some may call it a reef porn site. After seeing this common name for a chalice coral, you would thing that we were both. For a small fortune of 325$ per eye, this chalice has been monikered as the Pink Boobies. Folks, have your Visa’s ready! Reef 2 Reef’s SDguy explains [...] Related posts:

1. Deep Water Acropora, part 2
2. Caption’d It: October 26 2009
3. Reefy News: New Research Results On Coral and Climate Change

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People are often attracted to butterflyfish when they see them swimming in  pairs. There is something natural about seeing two of them side by side; the sum is certainly greater than the parts. On paper one would think keeping pairs or groups of butterflies would be easy. Some species are even “monogamous”, but like humans, [...] Related posts:

1. Suspected Banks x Guyanensis Hybrid Butterflyfish Collected in Florida Just last week a striking fish was collected that...
2. Prognathodes Madness on LiveAquaria Last night Kevin Kohen and the LiveAquaria team had an...
3. Caring for The French Butterflyfish (Prognathodes guyanensis) The Prognathodes genus is  a remarkable group of fish. They...

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Today I spent 15 minutes, 31 seconds (but who’s counting?) on the phone with Dr. Sylvia Earle. Wow. What a huge honor. And for me, a dream come true. As you know from my previous post — she’s a hero to me and more importantly, to the ocean. Without further waxing poetic… here’s what we [...]

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Take a look at this amazingly colored Blastomussa. It has an amazing red ring with a black hearted center. Reef 2 Reef’s mycoralgarden must be really happy owning one of these gems! Blastos are typically kept in lower flowed, medium light area. To prolong their life, you would need to feed them on a regular basis. Foods [...] Related posts:

1. Bi-Weekly Species Profile: Blastomussa wellsi
2. HELP!! I Got Acro Crabs!!!
3. The BAG Mailbag Returns

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