Filling Out Your New Reef Tank One of the biggest challenges for new aquarium hobbyists is patience. It’s not uncommon to have a rock garden in your living room for two months before your a…
Leather Corals
Get Inspired By This Forest Of Soft Corals in Raja Ampat
Besides Zoanthids and the new wave of shrooms, the aquarium hobby is ruled by our love for stony corals. But soft corals are an important part of the reef environment, sometimes becoming so …
The Tyson Reef tank looks incredible after 15 years
The Tyson Reef tank is an old school 110 gallon reef tank that is going on 15 years old. Upscale marine aquarium service company Premier Fish & Reef took over the maintenance of this aquarium abou…
Biota Aquariums want to turn novice aquarists into long-term hobbyists
Biota Aquariums is a new company that is hoping to break the high attrition rate of novice and new aquarists in the marine aquarium hobby by eliminating common points of potential failure — loss…
Get to know the leather corals: Sarcophyton, Lobophytum and Sinularia
Leather corals are a group of soft coral which include the genus Sarcophyton, Lobophytum and Sinularia. Leather corals are easy to care for and a great addition to any tank, and within these groups th…
Mr. Wing’s long tentacled leather coral is a whiplashing gyre of aquarium fun
Whoever said that soft corals are passé has obviously not seen enough. Not only are soft corals incredibly forgiving, they add a certain flare for life and movement in any aquarium. Coming in a myriad…
The polyps of the weeping willow leather coral have gotten even longer
Earlier this year we shared with you a video of the Weeping Willow leather coral, a particular Sarcophyton species of soft coral that has been growing in aquaria since the nineties. At the beginning o…
Check out this sweet green toadstool leather coral we picked up at ReefStock
When we are at the reef shows, and coral hunting, we usually have stony corals almost exclusively in mind. It takes a special kind of soft coral to grab our attention, and this green toadstool leather…
The weeping willow leather coral has impossibly long polyps
The “Weeping Willow” leather coral is an example of how unique and cool a Sarcophyton toadstool coral has to be for me to specifically grow it for more than a dozen years. I still remember…