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Coral City Camera is an Underwater Live Stream You Can Watch All Day
The Coral City Camera is an underwater camera fixed to one spot and live streams from an urban reef in Miami, Florida. The backdrop is one of boulders with a couple of…
Pavona clavus: A Nerdic Experience!
There are some corals, that can only be appreciated by certain people. They are not colorful, nor grafted, nor multicolor, nor with long tentacles, nor unique… They are just plain brown, and still, they’re amazing. It often takes the power…
Clean-up Crew, and Their Role in the Reef Aquarium
As mentioned in last week’s article algae and how to manage it is still the biggest problem/concern of many hobbyists both new and old. I would love to say that if everything is kept in balance and nutrients are kept…
Is Chasing Numbers Chasing Your Tail?
With ICP (ICP-OES / Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy) testing becoming commonplace for a well-kept reef aquarium, the methods for interpreting the results and putting these numbers to good use are becoming quite varied and potentially confusing. One method…
Flashback Friday: All the Giant Clams of the World (So Far,) by Jake Adams
Those who knew Jake Adams knew that he had a fascination with Tridacna spp. Clams, and spent years seeking out, collecting, and writing about his favorite, beautiful bivalves. We remember when he messaged us in 2022 after procuring a Devil…
Brazilian Reef Fishes Book is the Most Comprehensive Reference to Date
We knew this book would be good, but we didn’t know just how good it would be until we downloaded a preview from the publisher. Peixes Recifais Brasileiros, or Brazilian Reef Fishes, is a brand-new 320-page hardback book compiled by…
Grzegorz Grebosz’s Acropora are Probiotic Perfection
We admit to following and admiring this aquarium for a while, and although it’s existed in several guises since 2015, the bright, tabling acros and pristine, immaculately clean tank always manage to keep it looking like new. We caught up…
Coral Reef Breakthrough Launches to Prevent Extinction of the World’s Coral Reefs
The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), a network including 45 countries that represent over 75% of the world’s coral reefs, has launched the Coral Reef Breakthrough in partnership with the Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR) and the High-Level Climate…
Why Cyanobacteria is the Most Important Organism that Ever Lived
The word Cyano conjures up images of nuisance “algae,” slimy, stinking bacterial sheets that plague our aquariums, smothering our plants, decor, and corals and bringing misery to reefkeepers all over the world. Cyanobacteria is a scourge, an indicator of poor…
Robots can glue frags so you don’t have to
Researchers in Western Australia have started training robots to glue coral frags onto frag plugs. The development has come about from coral restoration efforts in the area, where nursery-grown coral frags are transplanted onto damaged reefs. Robotic arms have been…
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…
Eviota bacata is a New Species of dwarfgoby from New Caledonia
A new species of Eviota goby has been described from Grand Terra, New Caledonia, taking…
Signature Frags’ Split Personality Spliced Acro May Have Been Born Out of Stress!
Reef Builders is no stranger to spliced Acropora, but this one came out of British…
Reef Builders Raj Works on 10,000 Gallon Mega Tank Build
Raj has never really flexed his skill set to the Reef Builders audience before. He…