Coral Spotting Lembeh If you’ve spent any amount of time scuba diving, chances are you’ve heard of the Lembeh Strait. This channel of water between the mainland of Sulawesi and Lembeh island holds a mythical place in the psyche of…
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Polyp Lab Coral Spotting Expedition, Sulawesi Mainland Across from Bangka
If you’ve been following along with the Sulawesi half of our Polyp Lab Coral Spotting Expedition, you will start to see a trend emerge that coral species are very much influenced or restricted by their habitats. As aquarists, this information comes…
Polyp Lab Coral Spotting Expedition in Bangka Island
Bangka Island Bangka Island is known as a nonphotosynthetic coral paradise. Scuba divers and vacationers are attracted to the Robinson Crusoe island to get away from the hustle, relax on a white sand beach, and jump in the flow for…
Polyp Lab Coral Spotting Expedition in Bunaken National Park
Reef Builders blue is the best word I can use to describe the deep color you find while peering out from the Bunaken Wall. Countless sea turtles dart by, schools of pyramid butterfly fish, anthias, and triggerfish swim in synchrony…
Polyp Lab Coral Spotting Expedition in Manado Bay
Manado Bay Manado is a rapidly developing city in Northern Sulawesi. Shopping malls, and tourism development are encroaching further and further towards the sea, and not many people would expect to find world class diving a stone’s throw away from…
Polyp Lab Indonesia Coral Spotting Expedition – Halmahera and Sulawesi
We’re back from an incredible coral spotting expedition in Halmahera Indonesia, where we visited shallow sunlit coral reefs, sunken volcanos, and extensive underwater ridges! We want to give a big thanks to Polyp Lab for supporting this trip. Now, get…
Top 5 Favorite Corals Spotted at Worldwide Corals’ Farm
It’s no secret that Orlando Florida’s World Wide Corals is a hotspot of aquarium coral diversity, which is part of the reason we jump on every opportunity to visit. Last weekend we were fortunate enough to be present for the…
Learn About Coral Identification With the Ocean Gardener Coral Diver Course
Coral Identification Course If you’re interested to learn more about coral identification of species-rich Indo-Pacific corals you can now take a full three day, five dive Ocean Gardener Coral Diver, coral identification course with a trained Ocean Gardener instructors to…
Grow Your Brain by Learning About Corals
By Dr. Laura Walton Earlier this year I attended a Reefdivers talk and was introduced to the idea of “Seeing the Reef with new eyes”: As divers we see the reef all the time, without ever really seeing it! Sure,…
Learn to Spot Six Types of Branching Coral
Six Types of Branching Coral One of the first steps to becoming a coral spotter is learning to recognize coral growth forms. An perhaps the most recognizable of them all is branching corals. But even within this recognizable group, there are…
