I can clearly remember a time when understanding light on our aquariums was more like trying to wrap your head around alchemy than actual science. We discussed light in number of tubes, watts per gallons, and trichromatic, actinic and daylight…
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Some Cryptic And Remarkable Corals From Palau
The reefs of Palau are amongst the healthiest I have ever seen with lush coral growth that varied by habitat, but afforded plenty of cool coral encounters. The semi-enclosed lagoons with very shallow water is where an unusual Montipora could be…
Mesophotic reefs in Hawaii are rich in coral cover and unique fish species
Researchers in Hawaii have completed a comprehensive investigation of deep mesophotic coral-reefs throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago. The study, published in the open-access journal PeerJ involved a team of sixteen researchers and spanned more than twenty years. Although the existence of these…
Coral System by Korallen Zucht is totally new, from the makers of Zeovit
Coral System is a completely new line of aquarium additives from Korallen Zucht, makers of the Zeovit method. Unlike the holistic approach of trying to create a low nutrient environment for stony corals, Korallen Zuckt’s new line of additive is meant to…
Fluorescent Friday: World Wide Corals edition
For our previous installment of Fluorescent Friday we focused in on WWC’s famous ‘Grafted’ orange and green Montipora capricornis but today, we check out some of their other bangin’ corals with a fluorescent filter. World Wide Corals is one of the undisputed global…
Sneak peek of some of the hot livestock coming to ReefStock 2016
Reef aquarium events are an integral part to the experience of being a reef hobbyist in America. These gatherings offer us an opportunity to meet other reefers, see new products, catch a speaker talk or two, exchange ideas and information, but who…
Unseen Corals: The square fossils of Goniophyllum
Ever since our visit to the vast coral collections at the Smithsonian Institution, we’ve had our mind on all the “unseen coral” species out there, living and fossil. We think we know a lot about coral but really, the aquarium hobby…
Mizune has a perfect little reef tank
With so much of the American reefing hobby getting caught up in collectoritis of fuzzy sticks with silly little names, we turn to Japan for an example of what a beautiful reef tank is supposed to look like. Beauty is subjective but any…
We tracked down the Purple Monster Acro to its original source
The Purple Monster Acropora is arguably one of the most infamous stony coral strains in the marine aquarium hobby, of all time. This particular strain of deep purple acro is the coral that kickstarted the whole idea of even having some corals that…
Psammocora eldredgei sets new record for mesophotic photosynthesis
Psammocora eldredgei is a new species of stony coral that is remarkable not for its size or appearance, but for how deep this Scleratinian was collected from. Most new species of stony corals are really rare, very odd, or come…
