Articles and Talks and More

About Richard Ross -
Richard has been keeping saltwater animals for over 20 years, and has worked in aquarium maintenance, retail aquarium stores, and marine wholesalers. In 2004, Rich was selected to help establish a coral farm in Tonga. He is a writer/photographer for Advanced Aquarist, Reef Hobbyist Magazine and C the Journal of Aquatic Science, Travel and Adventure. He has been a crew member at wet web media and is currently an Site Administrator at Reefs.org. Rich is an avid diver/underwater photographer and videographer, and designed a permanent video exhibit for the Birch Aquarium at Scripps - "The Art of Deception". He is also a founding member and past president of Bay Area Reefers, the largest reef club in Northern California, and an Aquatic Biologist at the Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Sciences.

Cephalopod and Reef related articles & photos

Individually Unique Body Color Patterns in Octopus (Wunderpus photogenicus) Allow for Photoidentification
Research Article
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003732
Plosone.org
November, 2008

Breeding Banggai Cardinalfish
Article and some photos
Reef Hobbyist Magazine, Volume 2, Foruth Quarter 2008
Pages 6-10
www.reefhobbyistmagazine.com

Beat the Heat
Article and photos
Reef Hobbyist Magazine, Volume 2, Thrid Quarter 2008
Pages 18-21
www.reefhobbyistmagazine.com

Living with the AEFW Plague
Article and some photos
Reef Hobbyist Magazine, Volume 2, Second Quarter 2008
Pages 19-21
www.reefhobbyistmagazine.com

Garden Eels - for experts only?
Photos
Reef Hobbyist Magazine, Volume 2, Second Quarter 2008
Pages 5-7
www.reefhobbyistmagazine.com

8 things to consider before buying a coral
Article and Photos
Reef Hobbyist Magazine, Volume 2, First Quater 2008
Pages 4-5
www.reefhobbyistmagazine.com

Trimma Gobies - The perfect Nano Reef Fish
Photos and Cover Photo
Reef Hobbyist Magazine, Volume 2, First Quater 2008
Pages 12, 18, 19
www.reefhobbyistmagazine.com

Cutting it up - Fragging branching soft corals
Article and Photos
Reef Hobbyist Magazine, Volume 1, Early Winter2007
Pages 10-12
www.reefhobbyistmagazine.com

The Ballet of the Wunderpus
Article and Photos
C the Journal of Aquatic Science, Travel and Adventure
Volume 1, Number 4 • September, 2007 • Global Spotlight, pages 65 - 71
Reading Trees Publications • www.readingtrees.com

Sticky Basics: The are of Frag Gluing
Article and Photos
Reef Hobbyist Magazine, Volume 1, Fall 2007
Pages 6-8
www.reefhobbyistmagazine.com

A Scorpion in Your Reef
Photos and Cover Photo
Reef Hobbyist Magazine, Volume 1, Fall 2007
Pages 6-8
www.reefhobbyistmagazine.com

Whats on your Bottom
Article and Photos
Reef Hobbyist Magazine, Volume 1, Summer 2007
Pages 8-10
www.reefhobbyistmagazine.com

Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea: Pristine and Strange World
Advanced Aquarist, June 2007

Keeping and breeding the dwarf cuttlefish Sepia bandensis
Advanced Aquarist , September 2005
Republished on TONMO, January 2006
Republished on TheCephalopodPage May 2007

Featured Aquarium - 150 gallon Reef system
Advanced Aquarist, Featured Aquarium, July 2004

Cephalopod and Reef related talks

BAYMAC Featured Speaker - Collecting in Tonga, San Jose, CA November 23, 2008

House of Fins, Featured Speaker - Welcome Ceph Overlords, Greenwich, CT October, 2008

Aquamart Grand Opening, Featured Speaker - Collecting in Tonga, Denver, CO August, 2008

Manhatten Reefs Spring Frag Swap, Featured Speaker - Welcome Ceph Overlords
Brooklyn, NY April 27, 2008

TONMOcon, Featured Speaker - Cuttlefish Care
Monterey, California on August 5, 6 and 7, 2005

Marine Aquarists Roundtable of Sacramento, Guest Speaker - Keeping cuttlefish in home aquaria
Sacramento CA, February 2005

Bay Area Reefers, Guest Speaker - Consulting on a startup coral farm in Tonga
Hayward CA, October 8th, 2005

Other Ceph and Reef stuff

Video production and design for
'The Art of Deception'
Exhibit for the Birch Aquarium, 2005

Reefs.org System Administrator, 2005-present
Reefs.org New Reefkeepers Forum moderator, 2003-2005

Bay Area Reefers BOD member 2007-present
President, Bay Area Reefers, 2004-2007
Bay Area Reefers, Founding member, 2004

Wet Web Media 'Crew', 2005

Non Ceph or Reef stuff

A Practical Guide to Gorilla Theatre and Micetro
Published by BATS press, 2002