Win the chance to dive with the Coral Restoration Foundation team at MACNA
When MACNA rolls around, many of us start thinking about mixing in a scuba dive trip and thanks to ecoxotic, Two Little Fishies and Piscine Energetics 18 lucky MACNA XXV attendees will have the chance to dive the Coral Restoration Foundation site for free. All the details haven’t been announced yet, but stay tuned for more information on this once in a Read More
MASNA endows fund to establish Gary Meadows Memorial Reef at Coral Restoration Foundation
Harbor Aquatics, operated by Joy and Gary meadows, was the LiveAquaria and Reefer Madness of its day, selling live rock and live corals to reef keepers all across the country. Joy and Gary brought Harbor Aquatics to various reef shows like MACNA and IMAC way before it was cool, giving great support to in the Read More
Caribbean reefs are nearly all dead says grim, new IUCN report
Where once there were 50 to 60 percent coverage of coral on Caribbean reefs in the 1960s and 70s, now surveys measure coral cover at a meager 10 percent marking a significant environmental statement — coral reefs in the Caribbean are nearly all dead. While coral thrives in some small patches in the Western Atlantic, Read More
Friday Mega-Smorgasbord: Squid arms, robofish, shark feast, sea slugs, coral planting, living undersea, AEFW hit the high seas and gigantic clumps of whale poo
We have a great post lined up for this Friday with everything from amazing to just odd and something in between. We lead off this edition with a breaking story about deep sea squids that actually tear its arms free in a fight. The Octopoteuthis deletron, can actually amputate its own arms in a fight Read More
Aquapparel offers fun t-shirts, donates to a good cause
Aquapparel is a new company printing some interesting t-shirts for people interested in aquatic activities from aquariums to diving to paddle boarding. Besides offering some fun shirts (and a few corny ones too), Aquaparel is going to donate $1 from every sale to the Coral Restoration Foundation. Shirts run around $20 depending on the style Read More
Coral Restoration Foundation’s Ken Nedimyer named a CNN Hero
We never get tired hearing about the work Ken Nedimyer is doing with the Coral Restoration Foundation (CRF) and recently, Ken was featured as a CNN Hero by the cable news giant for the reef restoration projects they are taking on off the coast of Florida. Already reaching the milestone of growing over 25,000 staghorn Read More
Coral Restoration Foundation video by Fincasters is an even better look at the coral tree nurseries
Fincast’s John Carlin put together a nice video showcasing the Coral Reef Foundation and the work they are doing to replenish staghorn corals in the reefs surrounding the Florida coast. Coral Restoration Foundation founder Ken Nedimyer gives a nod to hobbyists for our work in coral propagation to the foundation’s success. Currently the CRF has over 21,000 pieces of Read More
Magical video by Coral Morphologic shows the staghorn coral tree nursery in exquisite detail
If you were intrigued by our last story on the staghorn coral tree nursery by the Coral restoration Foundation, Coral Morphologic has produced a video of what these aquaculture contraptions look like out in the field. We’re not sure how this underwater video was shot so smoothly, we have to work to do it on Read More
Staghorn Coral Tree Nursery by Coral Restoration Foundation takes a page from aquarium culture techniques
The Coral Tree Nursery is an innovative new technique for growing corals at sea which takes some inspiration from techniques for culturing corals that were pioneered in home aquariums. Now the whole Coral-Tree part is totally of Coral Restoration FOundation’s doing, but the practice of suspending corals from strings now as ‘Coral Candy’ was introduced Read More
Celebrate World Oceans Day and Adopt-A-Coral
Today is World Oceans Day, a worldwide celebration of our wonderful oceans, and what better way to celebrate than to adopt a piece of a reef. Our good friends at the Coral Restoration Foundation are offering you the chance to be a part of preserving reefs right here in the United State. Through the Coral Read More