Plating Corals Spotting coral can be overwhelming when everything looks the same. However, learning to recognize corals based on growth forms in the easiest way to master the art of coral spotting. Plating corals are found in all reef habitats…
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Learn to Spot Six Types of Branching Coral
Six Types of Branching Coral One of the first steps to becoming a coral spotter is learning to recognize coral growth forms. An perhaps the most recognizable of them all is branching corals. But even within this recognizable group, there are…
Learn To Spot Coral Diversity: Small Polyp Corals
Small Polyp Corals Do you remember how to tell the difference between hard and soft corals? Remember it has to do with the number of tentacles… We explained that hard corals are based on a six fold symmetry meaning they…
Behold the Reef of a 1000 Acro Millies!
By: Vincent Chalias Spending time in Australia, we got the opportunity to see with our own eyes, what coral collecting in these waters is like. In another epic day on the bumpy, short sharp swell of Great Barrier Reefs water…
Spot The Difference Between Hard Coral and Soft Coral
The Difference Between Hard and Soft Corals It may seem simple enough, one is soft and one is hard, but can you really spot the different between these two distinct groups of coral? The biggest difference, as the name implies,…
The Red Sea Reefer Peninsula Has Corals! [Video]
The second concept aquarium, and really the first true concept reef tank at the Reef Builders Studio is the Montipora dominated Red Sea Reefer Peninsula aquarium. A few weeks ago we shared with you the setup of this reef aquarium system…
Interesting Ecology Shift of Blacktail and Orangeface Butterflyfish
Saltwater fish are among some of the most colorful creatures we can keep as pets but as many species as we have access to, one notable group is a sort of ‘forbidden fruit’ when it comes to living in aquariums.…
Micro Lords Successfully Spawned by Ultra Corals Australia
The last month has been crazy with many peoples now involved with the mass spawning of corals, especially on the Great Barrier Reef. Most people concentrated their efforts with Acropora species, being the most affected by coral bleaching, which has…
Electric Lime Aid millie Is The Most Stunning Coral We’ve Seen All Year
Of the 20,000+ corals we’ve had the privilege of photographing this year there are a handful we could put on a pedestal. Holy grail specimens, one in a million ultra corals. But this electric lime aid millie we spotted over…
La Cana Dive Site – Gardens of the Queen Cuba
Pure white sand and crystal blue water, what else could you ask for with Caribbean diving? We really enjoyed the tranquil beauty of La Cana, an easy dive site in the Gardens of the Queen Cuba. Rocky coral bommies surrounded…
