Aqua Girl

that's a great looking colony!

Nice tank! Let me know when your ready to harvest that xenia

Thanks for the compliments. No clones yet, I keep looking at its mouth to see if there are any signs of splitting. I've only had it a few months but hopefully there will be a clone in the future and I can help spread the beauty.

Thanks to Bay

Beautiful tank!

Love your tank. Very nice aquascaping.

My group swimming in the Mexican cenotes

Flamingo tongue!

Christmas tree worm

Akumal Bay Mexico is known as feeding ground for about 50 sea turtles year round. It was not uncommon to run into one of these guys on a daily, or hourly basis while out snorkeling

This is me laying down a quadrat along an area of my transect line. The main objectives for my research were to examine the degradation of coral reefs in Akumal Bay, Mexico. In addition, I wanted to find a corelation between invertebrate diversity and coral reef health, as well as determine whether anthropogenic inputs played a factor in all of this.

This is the product of the coral vs. algae warfare where algae is winning. Nutrient inputs and eutrophication are on the rise as a result of tourism along Mexico's coastline increasing and the lack of proper development regulations.

Lionfish in its natural habitat. I took this picture personally, and it was not the only lionfish we saw. Lionfish have become an invasive predatorial species in the Caribbean and surrounding waters. While doing research in Mexico, we would go on lionfish hunts to shoot and spear them because of the damage they are causing.