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World Wide Corals, we salute you and your (in-store) livestock policy

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Have you ever seen a more beautiful sight than the one above? If you’ve spent any time working in the retail setting of the aquarium world, as we have for over ten years, then the posting will come as quite of a shock and also a relief. The daring fish aquarium professionals who would prominently Read More

World Wide Corals’ Pink Floyd chalice coral will leave you comfortably numb

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The Pink Floyd chalice corals is a hot new Echinophyllia from World Wide Corals which is sure to be one of the biggest new collectible strains of aquarium LPS. Sharing a lot in common with the original Watermelon Alien Eye chalice coral which was one of the first Echinophyllia to reach stratospheric prices, the WWC Pink Floyd chalice Read More

Yellow polyp orange cap – who knew that montipora came in this color?

We recently spotted an orange capricornis with yellow-green polyps at World Wide Corals which totally took us by surprise. As long as the aquarium hobby’s been keeping and growing plating Montipora corals and as many colored-polyp colonies that have been maricultured and imported from the wild, it really is a big surprise that very few ‘Caps’ have ever Read More

Video of Casper the white tang shows how startlingly awesome this fish is

Casper the white tang is an iconic all-white specimen of Zebrasoma flavescens which is the pride and joy of World Wide Corals in Orlando Florida. A couple years back when Casper was a greenhorn to aquarium life, we got a chance to visit him at WWC at which time he was still kind of skittish, and Read More

World Wide Corals fifth anniversary sale this weekend in Orlando, Florida

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To celebrate five years in business, World Wide Corals is throwing a two-day event this weekend to celebrate that includes great speakers like Michael Paletta, Julian Sprung, Chris Turnier, Rogger Castells and that Jake Adams guy. The event will take place Saturday, June 23 and Sunday, June 24 at the World Wide Corals store in Read More

World Wide Corals adds rare xanthic yellow tang and melanistic black tang to its collection of mutants

Move over Casper the white tang because World Wide Corals has just one upped you with the trump card of Zebrasoma mutants: a xanthic yellow tang and a melanistic black tang. Like the amelanistic white tang before them, the xanthic Zebrasoma flavescens and melanistic Z. rostratum are truly one of a kind surgeonfish.The xanthic yellow Read More

The tang collection at World Wide Corals ought to make the Tang Police implode

You may not have heard of the Tang Police but they surely have heard of you. As we speak the Tang Police has surveillance on all the reef tanks in North America making sure that everyone has only one surgeonfish per tank, a thousand gallons per surgeonfish, and that no one looks at a tang Read More

Following up with Casper the white tang at World Wide Corals

While we were in Orlando for MACNA last week we made it a point to stop by the premier LFS, World Wide Corals. Not only is WWC loaded up with a huge diversity of corals, they are also the proud owners of Casper the white tang. Casper is such a shy little fellow that he Read More

Ghost Tang at World Wide Corals is a white-colored yellow tang treasure

We’ve heard of white yellow tangs being spotted in the wild before but this is the first we’ve seen of a completely ghost white yellow tang being captured for the aquarium trade. World Wide Corals just received an all white yellow tang, Zebrasoma flavescens from Hawaii along with an oddball yet decidely less singular yellow Read More