ORA just added Montipora confusa that will be available to retailers shortly. In a blog post: “The ORA Confusa is a horizontal plating Montipora with very pronounced ridges covering its undulating surface. The overall green coloration is interrupted between the ridges…
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1,500-gallon reef aquarium a beautiful specimen after four years
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2itCSx1HdM[/youtube] We featured this 1,500-gallon aquarium nearly two years ago on a post featuring Borbonius anthias (Odontanthias borbonius) shared by Aquatic Art, Inc. and this new video shows how nicely this tank has matured over the last four years. The corals…
Top 10 new and cool corals of 2011
2011 brought us a ton of new reef fish species and although coral species and new aquairum strains come about at a crawling pace, this year was an exceptionally good one for a broad range of corals of all types.…
Simple, clean nano aquarium makes big impression
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5MqxHR7sHI[/youtube] We love well edited aquariums and in many cases, less can be more. This nice video of a very clean aquascaped ADA nano aquarium by YouTube user digitallyblue took a simple approach to make a big impact in a…
Algae-grazing fish help preserve corals
We’ve all seen how algae can choke off corals in our home aquariums and the same holds true in the wild. But algae-grazing fish in the wild are doing their parts to keep algae levels low on natural reefs to…
Colin Foord presents urban Acropora at TEDxMiami
[youtube width=”680″ height=”420″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X3uCnEN7lE&t=12s[/youtube] 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…
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…
Behold the ‘Fly Amanita’ Chalice coral
The Fly Amanita chalice is probably the illest coral we saw at MACNA 2011, and that’s why we brought it home. This gorgeous piece of Echinophyllia was acquired from A Reef Creation for a very reasonable sum, and although we’re…
Lophelia.org is THE source for everything about deep water corals, David Attenborough approved
As hard core reef hobbyist, we are also very much fascinated with the ecology and biology and the conservation of any marine creature, and deep water corals are no exception. It’s been quite a long time since we first shared…
Scandinavian cold water aquariums a lot more diverse than you might think
When thinking about coldwater marine aquariums, west coast aquariums like that of Steve Weast come to mind, usually not coldwater aquariums from the supposedly “murky” waters of the coasts in Scandinavia. Recently however we’ve come across some Scandinavian cold water aquariums that throw…