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Caribbean Coral Diaries: Orbicella franksi
Orbicella franksi Orbicella franksi is one of three species of Orbicella coral found in the Caribbean. This species of Orbicella grows into large plates covered in irregularly shaped nodules. The three species of…
Becoming A PADI Instructor Zambezi’s Story
Education There are three elementary schools on the island with classes up to the 8th grade. While current generations are more likely to attend school, growing up Zambezi and his age group were unlikely to study past the 3rd or…
Reef Aquariums Through Time
As the Rolling Stones once sang “Time waits for no one, he won’t wait for me”. With the passing of yet another long-time hobbyist, Albert Theil, recently it got me to thinking about time and its relationship to the hobby.…
Close Look And First Impressions Of The Wild Focustronic LED
We’ve been writing about and reporting on Focustronic LED and their first product, the Focustronic One, since about fall of last year. This weekend at Reefapalooza may have been dominated by hot and sexy corals and frags, but a few…
Huge Giant Squid Is About To Stink Up This Beach!
You know an animal is large when people first mistake it as a grounded boat! That is exactly what happened on this beach in Maluku Province of Indonesia when they sighted a huge brownish shape bulging from the shallow waters of…
Sacura parva Pictured and Filmed Alive For The First Time
Sacura parva is a gorgeous little anthias that we’d only seen in pictures of dull, freshly dead preserved specimens. But thankfully, there’s a few intrepid ‘biofreaks’ like ourselves who actually leave the comfort of their armchair to bring us face…
Decorator Crabs Are The Masters of Camouflage!
We’ve all seen how wild animals can develop excellent camouflage for the habitats where they are found. Creatures like stonefish, geckos and especially insect can just about disappear in their environments but there’s at least one animal which trumps them all. …
Cyphastrea magna, New Species Of Stony Coral From The Red Sea
I always say this when a new species of TRUE stony coral is described, these are rare and few between. We only see a few new Scleractinia described every year, and it looks like Cyphastrea magna will be the second species, and…
The Frag Fuge Reef Sump Is A Proper Coral Nursery
You know what’s silly? Having a refugium. You know what’s sillier? Using a refugium to shelter sand and algae while putting precious corals on your sand bed or precariously throughout the reef. The Frag Fuge Reef Sump is an exciting new…
Day 2 Coverage of Reefapalooza Orlando 2017
With only days since the show wrapped up, we’re still feeling the after effects of Reefapalooza Orlando 2017. Now that we’re all kinds of caught up on sleep and water changes, it’s time to share with you Day 2 of…
Video: How to Set Up the Red Sea Complete Reef Care Program
When Red Sea changed its popular dosing system from seven parts to a controlled ratio…
A whopping 62 species reported as new from the Coral Sea Marine Park
Reef Builders Alumni and master ichthyologist, Yi Kai, has teamed up with a star studded…
BYOGuides Announces New Workshops
Russel Kelly has created an iconic set of Be Your Own (BYO) Guides which serve…
Tunze Launches English YouTube Channel
Known for its bulletproof pumps and German engineering, Tunze has also been big on YouTube…
