{"id":286060,"date":"2025-06-10T15:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/som2nypost.com\/aquarium\/reef-beef-episode-138-constantly-fighting-an-octopus\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:55:58","slug":"reef-beef-episode-138-constantly-fighting-an-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/som2nypost.com\/?p=286060","title":{"rendered":"Reef Beef Episode 138: Constantly Fighting an Octopus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"pp-author-boxes-description multiple-authors-description author-description-0\"> Richard Ross currently works as an Aquatic Biologist at the Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Sciences, maintaining many exhibits including the 212,000 gallon Philippine Coral Reef. He has kept saltwater animals for over 25 years, and has worked in aquarium maintenance, retail, wholesale and has consulted for a coral farm\/fish collecting station in the South Pacific. Richard enjoys all aspects of the aquarium hobby and is a regular author for trade publications, a frequent speaker at aquarium conferences and was a founder of one of the largest and most progressive reef clubs in Northern California, Bay Area Reefers. He is an avid underwater videographer and has been fortunate to scuba dive in a lot of places around the world. At home he maintains a 300 gallon reef system and a 250 gallon cephalopod\/fish breeding system, and was one of the first people to close the life cycle of Sepia bandensis. 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