A large aquarium at a mall in Shanghai, China, burst and injured 15 people the other day. The 7-meter-long, 3-meter high aquarium was on the first floor of a mall that replaced a window between the inside and outside. The tank weighed in at 33.5 tons with 15 cm thick acrylic panes Read More

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One of the best and most enriching aspects of traveling around and seeing how people do reef aquariums and fish stores across the country and the world is finding truly inspiring places like Ocean View Aquariums. Barely open for just four months so far, Ocean View Aquariums located in Miami Florida is the kind of Read More

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MACNA 2013 will be hosted in Miami by the sea, as we revealed yesterday. Today the MACNA 2013 website went live revealing exciting additional information on the 25th birthday of the aquarium show, including the line up of the first ten speakers. Open registration and room reservation for the hotel by the sea have additionally Read More

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MACNA 2013 will be hosted next year by the Florida Marine Aquarium Society, essentially the club of the greater Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and south florida reefing sector. Scheduled to take place from August 30th to September 1, 2013, we find it wholly fitting that the 25th anniversary of the Marine Aquarium Conference of North America Read More

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Sometimes it doesn’t take much to dampen all the fun, and all it took this weekend was a crack in a 13,000 gallon aquarium to cause Gulfstream Racing and Casino Park in Miami to shutdown the casino over this holiday weekend washing away plans for thousands of patrons over the busy holiday weekend. The crack caused most Read More

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Throughout many parts of Miami there’s a whole lot of coral growing at the water’s edge and no one knows that better than the coral-huggers at Coral Morphologic. We’ve written extensively about Core More over the years: first with some fantastic Caribbean zoanthids, an appearance on PBS, discoing up Miami with aquarium projections, discovering new Read More

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We wrote in August about Coral Morphologic’s Colin Foord speaking at the prestigious TEDxMiami and we are happy to share with you his informative presentation is now available online. Foord’s unique presentation dives into finding thriving coral colonies within the city limits of Miami. Not just any coral — “delicate” Acropora coral Read More

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You usually think of Acropora as being a delicate coral group, ready to die at a moment’s notice but would you believe that there are acropora growing inside Miami Florida? We’re not talking about Acros in reef tanks, we’re talking about live wild Acropora colonies growing inside the city limits of Miami and surviving all Read More

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The University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science just announced the winners of its annual underwater photo contest and once again, the contest yielded incredible images. For the seventh year overall this amateur photo contest gets truly exceptional entries and Tobias Friedrich’s “Best Overall” winning shot of a pair of gobies (Bryaninops Read More

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You may know Coral Morphologic as the guys from Florida with all the crazy zoanthids and St. Thomas mushrooms but Core-More has always had a strong artistic penchant for everything they do. The latest project by Coral Morphologic was an art projection on prominent buildings of Miami Beach a week ago as well as some Read More

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