Who is the smallest fish in the world?

Last week on our show we heard a story about the world's smallest fish, which measured a minuscule 7.9 millimetres long. We spoke to the man who discovered said fish, Dr. Ralf Britz at the Natural History Museum in London, England. But it seems Dr. Britz's tiny fish can't hold the tiniest title for long. Professor Ted Pietsch at the University of Washington says he discovered the world's smallest fish last year - and his fish is a mere 6.2mm long. We reached Ted Pietsch in Seattle.

Listen to Evan Solomon's interview with Ted Pietsch

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Percula Clownfish vs. Ocellaris Clownfish

Even fishstore employees and fishstore owners are often confused by the differences between these two similar looking clownfish. Sometimes they are fairly easy to tell one form another, and sometimes they are not. There are some visual signs or clues as to which clown is which.

Some clowns are big, some clowns are small, with different colors and stripes. Some clowns even work at local fishstores (a joke)! Others and I have often found that the least reliable sign to rely on for identification between the ocellaris clownfish (false percula) and the percula clownfish (true percula) is often the sign on some dealers' tanks! (Sadly true in some areas!) A good number of clownfish labeled "percula" and "true percula" clownfish, that I've seen for sale, are actually ocellaris clownfish that are labeled as "true percula" clownfish or just as "percula" clownfish. It is a fairly common practice for many store owners to differentiate between these two fish by labling them either "true percula and "false percula." It's too bad when an ocellaris clownfish is misslabled and the price is also marked up to correspond with the naturally higher cost of obtaining true percula clownfish. This may even be the fault of the wholesaler passing them on as the wrong fish in some cases. If YOU can't tell the difference between these two fish, then you might still be just as happy buying only ocellaris labeled either way! They are both fairly mellow clownfish compared to some other clownfish. Ocellaris are often the slightly mellower of the two types.

Here are some differentiating signs you might want to look for. The percula usually has a lower height dorsal fin than the ocellaris and one or two more dorsal fin spines. The height of the fully extended dorsal fin is easy to see, but try counting the dorsal spines while the fish swims in it's waddling motion! I can't count them so I don't worry much about this sign, except in a picture. Also, the percula clownfish often has a face with more pronounced bulging structure, or more of a frog looking face with bulging eyes and cheekbones when viewed head on. The ocellaris' face is more plain looking in comparison when viewed head on. Some say the "eyes" have it. Perculas quite often have have a pure bright orange iris around the black pupil. This often gives them the illusion of having smaller eyes, or a beady little eyed look, as some say. Ocellaris clowns more often have a grayish orange iris which gives them the illusion of a larger looking eye than some percula clownfish. But, this sign isn't always reliable. Percula clownfish more often than not have more black coloration on their bodies than the similar looking ocellaris clownfish. This includes wider black margins which divide the orange and white markings. Ocellaris clownfish usually have thin black dividing margins between the orange and white. This overall darker coloration of the percula is recognized by most hobbyists as the most recognizable difference between these two fish. Percula clownfish from certain locations are mostly black with a fair amount of white and just a little bit of orange. Other than the extra spines in the dorsal fin, these other signs aren't foolproof and are not always reliable.

Here's the real clincher: The difference in these fish is regional. True percula clownfish come from Singapore and eastward to the Solomon Islands and southward to Australia. The equally fine (in my opinion) ocellaris clownfish come from the islands west and north of Singapore. The western tip of Singapore is the dividing line for the territories of these two fish. Still endless years of natural selection from breeding around separated islands produces some small differences within each species so that not all of each species looks exactly the same. It is still very often difficult to find out where your clownfish fish really came from. Many fishstores can't positively trace the origins of where each fish was captured.

I would recommend either type for most reef aquariums, unless you already have an aggressive dominant clownfish of another species in your tank. They are beautiful, fun and usually hardy fish. Although, there is often a problem with new shipments of especially ocellaris clowns. The problem is that many batches shipped into fish stores mysteriously die within a week or so of arrival. A parasitic blight is only ONE of the blamed causes for these sometimes heavy losses. I haven't heard the "final" story on this yet.

Tank raised clownfish of these species don't have this problem and are even hardier otherwise. You are sure to get young fish with a good projected life span rather than possibly an older clownfish with stunted growth from living in a community of clowns in the lower echelons of the pecking order. Each type of clownfish is also positively identifiable and just as beautiful if not more so than the wild caught ones. If your local fishstores can't get good survivable clownfish or captive bred fish, but would like to get some, see the online article about captive raised fish and C-Quest by Joyce Wilkerson at www.aquariumfrontiers.com (I think it is the July/August 1997 issue). She gives instructions at the end of her article on how YOUR favorite fishstores actually CAN order many varieties of captive bred fish directly from C-Quest. They only sell to wholesalers and dealers. They can tell your favorite fishstore which wholesalers to go through to include these fish in with their regular orders of everything else. They might want to start out with some ocellaris, perculas, Arabian (neon) dottybacks and pseudochromis fridmani (flashy purple orchid dottybacks) since they are good sellers. AMDA (can be found in FAMA and MFM magazines) can also help your favorite store with this problem and help them find good sources to get the best values on healthy "real drug-free" wild caught fish. Value isn't always the same as lowest price! Any healthy surviving fish is a better value than the lowest priced fish that dies soon. It would be great to see more stores offer hardy captive bred fish and let the public know about these advantages. I hope you find which ever clown is which, which you're looking for.

by

Tom Miller

Humpback Whales on the Central California Coast

The Humpback Whale is an Endangered species, occurring in all the world's Ocean. The central California population of Humpback whales migrates from their winter calving and mating areas off Mexico to their summer and fall feeding areas off coastal California. Humpback whales occur in Monterey Bay area from late April to early December. During this period the whales are here to feed on anchovies, sardines, and krill.

Humpback whales reach lengths of 50 to 55 ', are dark in color with distinctive nodules on their rostrum, and have pectoral flippers that are nearly a third of their body length. Current population estimates for Humpback whales off California conducted by Cascadia Research Collective indicate there are about 800 whales in this population. All whales have been photo-identified by natural markings and coloration on the underside of the tail fluke. From this photo-identification work, the migratory movements, calving intervals, association patterns, and population estimates can be determined for these whales.

WHERE YOU CAN SEE Humpback whales: Humpback whales are in the Monterey Bay area to feed and they often shift to feeding various locations depending on prey density. Humpbacks are often observed lunge feeding near the surface or deep diving for prey that is concentrated several hundred feet deep. This whale is the most animated of all the baleen whales, and they are often seen breaching, spyhopping, pectoral fin slapping, tail lobbing and.

Humpback whales are often seen from the highway turnouts throughout Big Sur. At the Junction of Partington Ridge and Highway One there is a deep canyon where the Submarine Humpback whales are seen on a regular basis.

In recent years, many different Humpback whales in this population often approachs boats for "friendly" Encounters. When engaging in this "friendly" behavior, a whale will often circle the boat, rub up against it, spyhop within several feet of the boat, roll on its side and extend its pectoral angeltje toward the boat, and often tilt its head with an eye open, appearing to look up at the boat and people on board. This phenomenon has been increasing each year, probably because this new generation of whales that have never known whaling are becoming curious about boats, and they often stay for several hours investigating our boat. This is totally contact initiated by the whales. source:http://www.bigsurcalifornia.org

Fish and amphibians

Fish and amphibians appear in the earth suddenly and without any ancestors. Evolusionis can not explain the origins of the two groups of creatures living this.

Evolusionis that the marine invertebrate species found in the layer Kambrium evolved into fish in the tens of million years. However, not found one chain that shows the evolution of the transition had occurred between invertebrates and fish species of this. Invertebrates, or animals not vertebrate, has a strong network outside the body and they do not have in order. Conversely, the fish have bones, namely, the network hardware in their bodies. Thus, the evolution of invertebrates into fish is a very big change that should have left forms the chain that connects the two groups of animals this.

Evolusionis has excavate fossil Layers for more than 140 years to find forms that are suspected to exist. They have found millions and millions of fossil invertebrates fossil fish; but no one ever found a form of middle between them.

Facing the facts, experts evolusionis paleontology, Gerald T. Told, to a number of questions:

Third subdivisional bony fish first appeared in the fossil record at approximately the same time .... How do they come? What causes them is very different ... And why no trace forms of transition before? 26


A fossil 280 million years of age who come from the frog species that have become extinct. This discovery revealed that the frogs appear suddenly in the earth without any predecessor.


Scenario also said that the evolution of fish, which evolved from the invertebrates, later changing themselves into amphibian that can live in the land. (Amfibi are animals that can live on land and in water, such as frogs). But, as there is in your mind, this scenario does not have any evidence. No one fossil also shows that half-fish creatures, half amphibian ever. Although reluctant, is justified by the fact evolusionis leading figures, Robert L. Carrol, author books Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution: "We do not have a mid-shaped fossil between fish and amphibians riphidistian-amphibian early." 27

In short, fish and amphibians appear suddenly and both have a form as is now without any predecessor. In other words, God created them, each in a form that is perfect.
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Dolphins, which is always smiling

No animals are so friendly and like dolphins. Attitude that they are tame and clearly visible from the face.

At birth, was first out ekornya, and finally his head and body. To feed the children, parent dolphins move the muscles in the gland susunya milk to squirt water into the mouth of a child. You can compare them with a bottle of milk with your hand to inject the contents to the outside.

Mammals do not actually need such as spraying to breastfeed her child. However, such a very important time in the water. Get the parent dolphins are thinking and how to develop such a self? Can he knows how important such a complete and scrofula susunya with musculature? As you imagine, it's not possible! As we emphasize all, God created the parent body of dolphins with a situation that is very appropriate to the needs of their children.

Respiratory system dolphins also similar to humans. However, nose hole does not lie in the middle of the face, but at the top of his head. As human beings, before the dive, dolphins mengirup air and menahannya in the lungs. When they emerged from the depth of the water, a few meters before reaching the surface, they will expel the air with a powerful air holes through them.

You may never see on TV how santainya dolphins swim in the water, and even able to compete with the ship. They are the perfect swimmer. The skin is smooth and slippery is the main reason why they can swim with so perfect. This distinction helped slide in the water and swim faster. Other privileges that make dolphins swim is quickly nose, referred to as a muzzle. Muzzle of dolphins is very fit to swim fast, even become a model for ship design.

Thanks to the form, and our ships can sail faster than before.

You know that dolphins do not have any smell and indra also blind?

However, God gave him a very sharp hearing. Dolphins can hear the sound of far-kilometer berkilo. In addition, by using the system in the body similar to the equipment "sonar" used in the bottom of the sea, they can easily find out the direction and know where mangsanya. The system is working tool as follows: Voters issued dolphins, which can not be heard by humans, spread in the form of sound waves under water. When the sound of a strike, it will bounce back and menumbuknya. The time needed for fish or a stone bruise and bounce back shows the distance from the quarry or stone. System on the dolphins is inspire scientists to create a sonar system on the submarine.

Indra hearing a dolphin is very sharp protect a victim of other fish in the sea.

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Clown fish

Characteristic of most interesting of this fish, the body is decorated with bright colors, is where God life has been choise. Clown fish live in the coral branches of the tree known as the "anemon sea." There is a capsule-toxic capsule on the branches anemon sea fish that will make the touch dead or injured. However clown fish never hurt by this anemon sea. Even those hiding behind the branches that make them safe from the sweeping. There is a special fluid in the body is the clown fish protect from the 'bite' capsule anemon sea.

Is not this incredible? Unlike other fish, the fish is the liquid that protect from poison in the vicinity of his life. I know that this is not anemon sea dangerously, when in danger, he quickly hides in the capsule, the capsule toxic. How do they know that other fish that can not handle the fish or the other does not have liquids such as a farmer? No doubt, not the brain and the ability of small fish that can give this knowledge. There is a power that has been set, namely, God, creator of heaven and earth and all that is between them.

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Clown Anemonefish

Anyone with kids and a DVD player probably thinks they know all there is to know about the clown anemonefish, or, simply, clownfish. What they may not know is that the heroes of Finding Nemo are actually called false anemonefish. True anemonefish, Amphiprion percula, are nearly identical, but have subtle differences in shape and live in different habitats.

Bright orange with three distinctive white bars, clown anemonefish are among the most recognizable of all reef-dwellers. They reach about 4.3 inches (11 centimeters) in length, and are named for the multicolored sea anemone in which they make their homes.

Clownfish perform an elaborate dance with an anemone before taking up residence, gently touching its tentacles with different parts of their bodies until they are acclimated to their host. A layer of mucus on the clownfish's skin makes it immune to the fish-eating anemone's lethal sting. In exchange for safety from predators and food scraps, the clownfish drives off intruders and preens its host, removing parasites.

There are 28 known species of anemonefish, most of which live in the shallow waters of the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and the western Pacific. They are not found in the Caribbean, Mediterranean or Atlantic Ocean.

Surprisingly, all clownfish are born male. They have the ability to switch their sex, but will do so only to become the dominant female of a group. The change is irreversible.

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The shark bone

The shark bone cancer and Rematch
Jessie Arbogast, toddlers, aged 8 years old, never think liburannya changed into hell. When mid-July last year, he played in the coastal water that was knee-deep in the Gulf Islands National Beach in Florida suddenly attacked by shark along the 2.1 meters. The arm from shoulder to the elbow are, as well as meat on the thigh.





Imagine shark, the Shark, which is to be ferocious creature spiked sharply, eager memangsa other animals, even humans. However, when estimates of escape from behind the shadows that saved frightening for the benefit of human life.

Unless delectable eaten siripnya that (even in China as the "compulsory comestible" the palace since the Ching Dynasty), bone rawannya that the cure of various diseases. Sharks, including vertebrate, but in fact consists entirely of cartilage (cartilage), in other words, sharks do not have a bone in his body.

In shark cartilage contained protein, calcium, phosphorus, carbohydrate, water, fiber, fat and other components as the natural nutrition. Conversely, the cartilage is not found elements of heavy metal, not the kind of music, but the flow of elements such as zinc, copper, merkury, nickel and the like which tend dangerous for humans.

Viewing content similar substances, experts conclusion, shark cartilage is not toxic and has no side effects, to be consumed safely. Management Agency United States Food and Drugs (FDA), since 1993, issued a special permit for the use of shark cartilage as a treatment alternative support.

Based on the clinical research, stated shark cartilage are able to maintain growth and spread of tumor cells, helps reduce pain and bone pain, rheumatism help avoid disease, maintain and strengthen the function of bones, to help remove the feeling stiff and rheumatism, and health care facilities and the body avoid aberration that crooked spine.

Research shark cartilage in the joints and diseases by rheumatism bone surgeon Dr. John Pruden from Harvard. Research shows the initial 25 patients from 28 patients suffering from severe rheumatism artristis accompanied by the movement disfunction after states cartilage during the 3-8 week showed the results were quite good. This is because shark cartilage contains protein, collagen protein to replace the damaged joint disease in rheumatism.

Shark cartilage has long been known also as a healthy food by the Chinese community in the form of porridge eaten the freshness of the body and lead to more activity. Dr. Lane Phd, a nutrition expert from the sea Cornell University that the United States to develop and carry out research on shark cartilage, get a lot of progress in the clinical results when people with rheumatism (interference in the joints) or cancer consuming shark cartilage.

Finally obtained hypothesis and the anti-inflamsi anti Angio Genesis is a major factor cartilage shark, which can cause food is used for bone disease and cancer. As is known, in the case of major diseases (management bones, porous bones, nerves and rheumatism acid artritis) complaint that is most often pain and swelling (inflammation). Pain and swelling occurs because the release of harmful chemical called IL-1 (interlekin one) and TNF (tumor Necrosing Factor), after receiving injury, wound, micro and continuously.

So, after knowing the origins of disease to the conservation principle that the optimal required a good knowledge about the anatomical joints, the risk factors that aggravate the membrane joint treatment and coating the joint cartilage. As a creature of social mobility that we need good, then surely there are large or small wound on the principle that continuously, especially when sporting activities will increase.

Given the nature of the coating joint cartilage does not get a lot of food consumption from the blood because it is not dialiri by blood vessels, therefore required the consumption of food fish such as shark cartilage, which is now many are packed in food consumption, "ready to use." You are not trying.

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