Coral Rekindling Venus is a project to display coral reefs and marine life at planetariums, bringing the experience of marine life cinematography to a whole new level. The full-dome digital planetarium motion picture will feature a wide array of stunning…
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Largest illegal coral seizure in UK history made at Manchester airport
The largest illegal coral seizure ever made in the United Kingdom happened when officials discovered over 750 kilograms of illegal coral and rare clams at the Manchester Airport. The cargo originated in Vietnam then flew through Singapore on its way to the…
Top down look of Chingchai’s amazing corals and fish
You’ve seen the DSPS tank from Thailand a myriad of times; in the beginning and a little bit further along. Now that Chngchai’s reef tank has been coming along for a while now, this top down video of the reef and…
Coral bowl at Dorkfish Aquatics is a creative way to observe and target feed a red goni
Imagine our surprise when we visited a brand spankin new aquarium shop in the Denver area to discover something we had never seen before. The place is Dorkfish Aquatics, and when we swung by the new retail location we were flabbergasted by…
Blue Dragon Acro tops the list of must-have Bali Deepwater Acropora
The Blue Dragon Acro, a variant of Acropora walindii, has been available in the reef aquarium hobby infrequently ever since Bali first started shipping maricultured Acropora. With all those cool Mariculture Acros coming out of Bali these days, recently the Blue Dragon Acro…
Red Cycloseris shows up at Happy Coral
Red disc corals are hot, and red Cycloseris are even hotter. It’s been a while since we saw a good killer red Cycloseris so you can imagine our reaction when we heard that not one, but two red Cycloseris showed up at…
Reef aquarium time lapse video shows behavior of coral polyps
There’s nothing like a good reef aquarium time lapse video to remind us that corals are animals like us, reacting to their environment in their own way, everyday. This time lapse video of a reef aquarium shows a wide range…
ORA Pink Stylo returns to reefing for a second round
The ORA Pink Stylo, Stylophora pistillata is back in action after a long leave of absence from ORA’s stocklist. Stylophora pistillata as a species is highly variable in growth form with strains like the ORA purple stylo aka ‘Milka Stylo‘ growing thick…
Open brain corals are perfectly capable of catching small healthy reef fish
It’s pretty common knowledge that anemones of any kind can easily catch small fish, or specimens that are weakened from stress or injury, but you don’t really expect that from corals. Sure we’ve all seen the evidence of open brains…
The Coral Bin adds new twist to WYSIWYG Coral retailing
The Coral Bin, a new upstart WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) coral livestock company has recently launched. With traditional WYSIWYG outlets, you go through rows and rows of thumbnails looking for a particular species or animal that…