Sea Women Great Barrier Reef has posted some breathtaking pictures of over 100 Giant Clams, Tridacna gigas, that were recently exposed in a low tide caused by the New Moon. The clams are situated at Goolboddi on Orpheus Island, Queensland,…
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A Day in the Life of a Coral Farmer
Going out for a drink and meeting people who ask what you do for a living is always amusing when you tell them you farm corals. It’s not often you can delve into the inner workings, hardships, and triumphs of…
Cairns Aquarium becomes Coral Biobank’s permanent new home
Last time we spoke about the Great Barrier Reef Legacy Coral Biobank Project kicking off in Queensland, Australia, there was already an admirable number of coral species being held by some Biobank partners for security, despite a lack of existence…
RVS shows why nets are best when it comes to catching fish
Do you know how the fish in your aquarium were caught? Depending on what they are, where they are from, and who caught them, saltwater fish may be caught using a variety of methods from net to hook and line,…
Two popular corals classified “extreme” in Queensland Fishery risk assessment
Homophyllia cf. australis and Micromussa lordhowensis have been given an extreme risk rating by the Queensland Coral Fishery Ecological Risk Assessment, 2022. In ongoing reforms to the management of the fishery, a harvest strategy has now been implemented based on…
Biota offer cultured coral alternative from permit-restricted Palau
Most aquarium hobbyists in the United States today have never seen hard coral from Palau. Palau’s national congress passed the Marine Protection Act of 1994 which restricted hard coral exports, and starting in 1997, the MPA stated that only citizens…
Reef Rock 2.0 live rock lands at Advanced Aquarium Consultancy
Some latest generation Walt Smith cultured live rock has arrived at one of the UK’s top marine stores for appraisal and initial review. Not to be confused with Reef Rock 2.1, a dry man-made rock, Reef Rock 2.0 is also…
Ultra Coral Australia propagates Homophyllia from the bottom up
Captive propagation of Homophyllia australis isn’t as easy as many other corals. Being a single polyp LPS coral, cutting through it with a coral saw usually ends in its demise. They have been captive spawned recently but the methods remain…
Corals to be grown on wind turbines in Taiwan
A Danish energy company plans to grow corals on the bases of offshore wind turbines. Dubbed ReCoral, the ambitious project plans to settle larvae and then grow them on the turbines 60km offshore, where the waters are less affected by…
Coral Workshops help tell wild from farmed Indonesian corals
Corals are the most traded CITES-listed marine animals globally. A 2021 study by the Food and Agriculture Organization found that from 1990 to 2016, exporting countries reported 1.6 million direct export transactions in marine animals, 97% of which were in…
