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COVER:
Freckled Conch, Lentigo lentiginosus.
Photo by Daniel Knop
Aquarium Thiemo Walt, Meefisko
BACKGROUND:
Sea Fan feeding polyps,
Astrogogia sp.
Photo by Daniel Knop
Aquarium Melanie Madel,
Kolle-Zoo
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LETTER FROM EUROPE by Daniel Knop
EDITOR’S PAGE by James M. Lawrence
LETTERS
REEF NEWS
RARITIES by Inken Krause and Tanne Hoff
The Crosshatch Triggerfish (Xanthichthys mento)
The Blotchy Deepwater Anthias (Odontanthias borbonius)
INTERVIEW: Guido Poppe by Daniel Knop
FEATURE ARTICLES
28 SEA SNAILS: INFORMATION WORTH KNOWING
by Daniel Knop
32 SEA SNAILS IN THE MARINE AQUARIUM
by Daniel Knop
SAVING THE MOTHERSHIP
Coral reefs and climate change
by Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Ph.D.
CORAL FEEDING, PART ONE
What corals eat by Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D.
ECHINODERMS
A spectacle of spiny skins
by Matthew L. Wittenrich
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AQUARIUM PORTRAIT
71 PASSION PLAY
The reef lives of Dietmar Schauer
by Inken Krause
DEPARTMENTS
79 SPECIES SPOTLIGHT:
The Blacktip Grouper by Daniel Knop
84 REEFKEEPING 101:
Measuring salinity by Dr. Dieter Brockmann
88 CORALEXICON
Technical terms that appear in this issue
92 ADVANCED AQUATICS:
Reefkeeping on a grand scale by J. Charles Delbeek
ADVERTISER INDEX
REEF LIFE
by Larry Tackett and Denise Nielsen Tackett
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