Top 10 Affordable and Unique Corals

Last week we were talking with Reef Builders host Remy about corals we recommend to people, and of course, the obvious beginner corals come up like Toadstools, Green Star Polyp, and Pulsing Xenia. But with 100+ genera of Indo-Pacific hard…

Show Us Your Reef Tees!

Remember Jake Adams and you’ll remember him not just for his world-class reef information, but his apparel too. Despite coming to us from the frosty climbs of Colorado, Jake was so often seen in shorts and sandals, a baseball cap,…

The Mother of all Cynarina lacrymalis found on the Great Barrier Reef

Ania Nerowski, our own Australian-based coral nerd, has reported to us a fantastic coral that showed up in Australia. Cynarina lacrymalis, the Button Coral, is normally a solitary, monocentric, one polyp, one mouth coral. Double or triple heads sometimes show…

Join us for ReefStock Australia in Less than Four Weeks!

We’re less than a month away from hosting ReefStock Australia for the first time since 2019 and the anticipation has been building up for literally a thousand days. On August 6 & 7th the biggest reef aquarium conference in Australia…

Aquamarine Aquaristic is an Enviable Australian LFS

With ReefStock Australia just a couple months away our mind is daydreaming about the hyperactive reef aquarium scene in the land down under and especially the many reef aquarium stores to be found there. We wished we could have traveled to…

ReefStock Australia 2022 Is coming for Sydney!

Are you ready for ReefStock Australia? We definitely are! The long awaited Sydney show returns this August 6-7, 2022.  ReefStock Australia has been a beloved tradition in the NSW region for several years, and this year is set to be…

We’ve Never Seen a Birdnest like the ReefWorks Seriatopora

The unique arrangement of Seriatopora corallites is one of the first things we ever learned about corals so we’ve developed an eye for unique and unusual bird nest corals. New strains of Seriatopora are quite rare and the last real ‘innovation’…

Grafting Live Acropora Colony to its Own Skeleton [Video]

Fragging corals because they’ve gotten too large and in need of a trim is one of the most rewarding reasons to propagate a coral from your reef tank. Beyond just gluing the cut coral pieces to frag plugs, there’s lots…

Pavona maldivensis Discovered with Both Orange and Green Color

Pavona maldivensis is one of the most distinctive stony corals in the world with a gnarly growth form and mound shaped corallites that reefers once believed to be a bizarre species of Cyphastrea. Unlike other more encrusting and ruffled species…

ReefStock @Home Australia Edition

ReefStock@Home is a new livestream format that we are developing to bring the reef aquarium community together during a time when we can’t physically attend reef aquarium events. For our second installment we tapped some of our best contacts in…