Recent content by SteveC1

I am relatively new to this hobby. Before I got interested in reefkeeping, I would have agreed that preserving the world's reefs is important if anyone asked me about it, but it was only after getting started in the hobby that I developed an appreciation for what's at stake. Seeing reefs on TV...

I have live rock from the Gulf in my slightly over two week old tank. One of the many critters that came in on it has six radial arms, each of which has numerous small branches on it, that periodically retract and are stuffed into a central mouth before being extended again. I just discovered...

A type of cup coral. I only know this because I just ID'd them on my own rock. Rhyzangiidae family, probably Phyllangia sp. or Astrangia sp. See Borneman's book, p. 321. HTH!

...but if everyone had basic set theory this wouldn't be so difficult. I've tried to just let this go but I can't. Apologies to everyone who doesn't care. By definition, humans are not part of nature, because nature is defined as all things in the universe excluding humans and their...

Dude, I did not make up the language. The word "nature" is defined as excluding humanity and human creations. We use it to distinguish those things in the world that are not created by us from those that are. This seems to be a useful distinction and everyone understands it. It does not...

As soon as the concept of "nature" entered human consciousness and language. By definition, nature excludes humanity and all its creations. Whether this is a useful distinction or not can be debated, but the fact of the distinction itself cannot.