ORA’s new Green Planet acro is the latest new stony coral release from Oceans Reef & Aquariums which is grown out at their Florida facility. Bearing much resemblance to the famous ORA Red Planet table acro, the green planet is a near perfect emerald counterpart with similar growth shape, growth rate and appearance of the Read More

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Acropora insignis is an interesting staghorn Acro which was one of the must-have stony corals back in the day when the selection was much more limited. Acro Insignis has been obscured by more showy species in the recent past but ORA has an interesting strain which they are now bringing to the masses. The Ant Insignis Read More

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The reef aquarium hobby has never enjoyed so much diversity and abundance of maricultured stony corals but with so many of these species being highly sought after, it seems like all we know of many of these species is how they look as frags or tiny “colonies”. By special request future MACNA speaker Vincent Chalias Read More

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For this week’s Reef Builders Pick we’ve some serious eye candy. With five large reef tanks from all over the world including France, South Africa, Brazil, England, and Holland this line up is as international as it is amazing. Massive coral colonies, amazing aquascapes, and healthy corals that will throw you off the wall are Read More

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It is often quite easy to forget where the corals from our systems actually came from, or what they looked like in the wild. Wild Singapore’s photo stream is a huge collection of under water life photography and contains many beautiful pictures of reefs and large animals such as turtles and sharks, but the photo Read More

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You are probably aware of the symbiotic relationship between Acropora and coral gobies, with the coral providing shelter and the coral gobies in return fighting off predators and other threats to the health of the coral. Now however, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology  have found that the relationship between the two might stretch farther Read More

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Acropora sirikitiae is the newest species of the popular small polyp stony coral genus Acropora to be described since Acropora rongelapensis. Discovered growing in Western Thailand, Acropora sirikitiae is a medium branched staghorn with appressed radial corallites. Carden Wallace, the world’s preeminent expert on staghorn corals named Acropora sirikitiae in honour of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, Queen Regent of Thailand. Read More

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This week I would like to talk about a coral that is dear to my heart, Acropora tortuosa. I’m not sure exactly why this coral is so well loved and collected within the hobby – Is it because it occurs in many stunning shades of blue or because of the growth formation? Maybe it seems Read More

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A recent study suggests that corals with greater diversity of symbiodinium (aka zooxanthellae) are more sensitive to environmental changes than corals with fewer variety of symbiodinium. Published by the Royal Society Biological Sciences, the research breaks down the corals as generalists and specifists, Generalists, like Acropora, are more susceptible to environmental stressors. Conversely, Porites is a Read More

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We are delighted to welcome Leo den Breejen as the latest addition to our lineup of international contributors. Leo is the creator of such famed aquascapes as the Formosa Forest and Apogon Reef and he’ll be dropping from time to time to share his reefing experiences.  Acropora suharsonoi is found in the central Indo-Pacific and in Read More

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