montipora

500 gallon Mountain View reef tank is home to an exquisite wall of corals

Nestled in the foothills of Genesee Colorado, there is a most excellent 500 gallon reef tank with an exquisite wall of corals and an impressive view of the Colorado Rockies. This Mountain View reef tank is maintained by Premier Fish & Reef…

An intimate look at the amazing Montipora

While the rest of the world is currently going gaga for shrooms and fuzzy sticks, we’re rekindling our love interest with Montipora. In some ways, the multicolored polyps and nodules and growth forms of various Montipora species was strongly responsible for the…

Breaking Up is Hard to do

There’s a dirty little secret that no one in the hobby will tell you, but I will. Once you get good at this, corals grow, and no I don’t mean the “1cm per year” that your dive boat captain will…

Highlighting some coral gems at Titan Corals

Titan Corals is a relatively new wholesaler that opened up in Gardena CA this summer, and we swung by to see how they’re coming along while in the area today. Immediately upon walking into Titan Corals, you get the impression…

An ode to purple Montipora digitata in the aquarium, and in nature

Purple Montipora digitata is hands down, one of the most beautiful and colorful small polyp stony corals available for aquariums, bar none. There, we’ve said it, professed our love for a coral that no matter how many times you’ve seen…

Medusa Montipora hirsuta from Sustainable Aquatics

Sustainable Aquatics is renowned for high quality captive bred fish, and has been in the spotlight for the recent release of the hobby’s first ever longfin clownfish strain. What you may not know about Sustainable Aquatics is that they also…

Montipora caliculata is a species that really deserve more aquarium attention

There are over 70 species of Montipora described to date, with some of the widespread species being diverse enough to be divided into further sub-taxonomic units. The lion’s share of the “Montis” grown in the aquarium hobby are represented by only…

Coral rolloliths can occur in really unexpected species

We tend to think of most corals as being stationary, one-sided colonies of creatures but in some habitats, an abundance of corals occur as living tumbleweeds. When colonial corals occur as unattached rolling living rocks they are called ‘rolloliths’ – while…

Kwajalein’s Montipora sp. “likatu” comes in three different polyps colors

Kajalein Atoll is a veritable paradise of SPS corals, and if you couldn’t tell already, there’s plenty of Acropora to go around. But we’re not leaving out the unique Montis of the Central Pacific region, it’s just taken us a…

New ORA ORAnge Setosa adds a pop of color to your fuzzy stick collection

The new ORA ORAnge Setosa is a stunning coral with a unique and elegant look that will add a nice pop of color in your reef aquarium. There is no shortage of stunning blue, purple or green corals so it…