From the perspective of the aquarium world, we tend to think of Japan as a country where lots of exotic marinelife goes, but it’s easy to forget that Japan has nearly 30,000 kilometers of coastline, and much of that is in…
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Montipora: A Practical Guide to the Variety of Forms Part 1
If there is a group of coral, where we find ourselves struggling to properly identify to the species level, that’s Montipora! Montipora are probably the most popular coral right after Acropora, it’s a fast growing, very colorful group of SPS…
Four New Virgin Tanks and Getting them Covered Up [Videos]
We made a huge push in the last few weeks leading up to ReefStock not just to get everything ready in time for a few visits, but mostly to just to finally get some of these reef tanks going. After…
Five Super Exotic Thick Branching Acropora Species
We’ve said it before and we’ll never stop saying it, there’s a whole world of wild corals which we still know next to nothing about. Reef aquarists tend to keep and concentrate on the corals that we already have, especially…
Maxspect’s New Jump line of DC Return Pumps
The MaxSpect Jump DC pumps is the first in the company’s new line of entry-level aquarium products. There’s countless OEM small controllable pumps being cranked out of China but you know MaxSpect would never play that way. These Jump Pumps…
How to Actually Make Corals Grow Faster, High pH
After temperature and salinity, the pH of aquarium water is one of the most important parameters of reef aquarium chemistry. In freshwater tanks soft water fish have been adapted to higher pH and vice versa, and saltwater fish are not…
Hoeksemai Acro is the King of Blue Staghorn Corals!
Acropora hoeksemai is a gorgeous blue staghorn Acro which been a classic Indonesian coral, produced in the thousands through mariculture. So you would think that this coral is probably available all over the world right now, through frag sellers, but its…
ReefStock 2019 starts in just under 2 weeks!
Start your engines reefers! ReefStock 2019 is coming in hot. Join us in just over March 2nd and 3rd in Denver for Colorado’s more anticipated reefing event of the year! ReefStock doors open at 10am on Saturday, make sure you…
Bernardpora, the Flowerpot Coral caught between Goniopora and Porites
This awful scientific name probably doesn’t ring a bell to you but Bernardpora stutchburyi is actually a very common coral. It’s cultured all over the world, and misidentified under so many other names. The most used common name is short polyped flowerpot…
The Indo Ban Is Still On, But Corals Are Growing Out Nicely
Bali Aquarium – Serangan Coral Farm The pictures speak for themselves. Left to grow for a nearly a year without even a trim, the Bali Aquarium coral farm racks are starting to get out of control! The overgrown racks are…