HITCHHIKERS
The Good, Bad, & Very Rare
Volume 12 Number 6
6 Letter From Europe by Daniel Knop
9 Editor’s Page by James M. Lawrence
10 Reef News
22 Rarities: CORAL staff report
FEATURE ARTICLES
30 Chaos Happens — When invaders appear in your reef aquarium by Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D.
46 A Galaxy of Hitchhikers — Surprise encounters: the good, the bad, and the terrifying by Robert M. Fenner
54 The Batman Problem — A coral farmer’s battles with the top 5 reef villains by Than Thein
62 Don’t Hate the Hitchhiker! by Marc Levenson
68 Propagating Tubastraea sun corals by Silvia Gerhard
AQUARIUM PORTRAIT
77 Dividing the Labor — Lisa and Sebastian Blume’s “newbies’ reef” aquarium by Daniel Knop
DEPARTMENTS
83 Reefkeeping 101: Water works: Reef chemistry simplified by Dr. Dieter Brockmann
93 Species Spotlight: Blue Gorgonian by Daniel Knop
100 Coral Sources: Outstanding aquarium shops
102 Coralexicon: Technical terms that appear in this issue
104 Advanced Aquatics: Stopping the plunder by Ret Talbot
112 Advertiser Index
114 Reef Life: by Denise Nielsen Tackett and Larry P. Tackett
