With the dark-rimmed yellow mouths and green base of a Raja Rampage, and the blue streaks of a Jelly Bean Chalice, the second we saw this coral we knew we had to find out more. Blaine Shivley from Top Shelf…
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Online Coral ID Workshops Are Back For 2023/24
Do you know your Collines from your Coralla? Your Paliform from your Petaloid or Phaceloid? Your Septa from your Septo Costae? Learn all these hard coral descriptive terms and most importantly, how to identify virtually all Indo-Pacific hard corals to…
Top 5 Most Unique Corals in the Reef Builders Studio
Go to most places and the corals they will want to show off will be the eye-catching, crowd-pleasing ones like Torches, Chalices, and Tenuis. But the Reef Builders Studio was never just about showing off popular corals, it was about…
Off timing coral spawning spotted in South Sulawesi
How much do we really know about corals? The answer is: Not so much, actually. While the general rule for coral spawning is a few days after the full moon, 2 hours after sunset, just before the water temperature high…
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 Pseudodiploria strigosa Brain corals, some sponges, and an…
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…
Richard Ross’s Home Coral Breeding Video is a Recipe for All Reefers
Captive coral spawning is a big deal right now and represents the cutting edge of decades of trial and error when we learned first how to keep them alive, then how to frag them, and now, most importantly, how to…
Flashback Friday: Jake’s love for Anacropora
Those who knew Jake Adams knew his passion spanned all Scleractinians, but there is one lesser known, lesser kept genus that he was particularly passionate about and even got to collect them in the wild – Anacropora. So we thought…
Go Coral Shopping with Julian Sprung
This week Evie arrived at livestock wholesaler Carolina Aquatics in North Carolina for their annual event and got to spend some time with reefing legend Julian Sprung at the same time. It’s always interesting to see which corals push people’s…
