Around four months ago we reported on a batch of Caribbean Stony corals which were rescued from the advancement of a terrible disease, and entrusted to a Denver area institution called the Butterfly Pavilion. When we first saw these corals…
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CORALPALOOZA Goes Digital With Their First Online Event.
For the past five years, on World Ocean’s Day, the Coral Restoration Foundation™ takes an army of ocean lovers to restore coral reefs in Florida and around the world. This year, however, is a bit different. The yearly event named Coralpalooza™…
Automated Coral Husbandry with CHARM
CHARM Last week when we saw the frag cleaning robot called ‘CHARM’ the intriguing video had me asking questions. Isn’t it easier to clean frags by hand? How is this robot supposed to recognize all sorts of frags? Is this…
Giant Clam Poop Could Help Corals Recover from Bleaching!
Last September a study was published taking a close look at giant clam poop, more accurately described as fecal pellets. We previously shared this story but wanted to circle back to it to really drive home one interesting point about…
This Coral Restoration Method Helps Slow Down Slope Erosion
TRACC – Pom Pom Island Malaysia Back at the end of 2019, yes back when we could fly around the world to tiny islands in a matter of days, we had the pleasure of visiting Pom Pom island in Borneo…
Coral Carpets Turns Sand Zones to Live Coral Nurseries
Reef building stony corals are not picky about where they grow in tropical regions, but one prerequisite is having something to grow on. This limitation of sorts means that there’s huge areas of sand in between hard bottom where most corals…
RoboCoral: Turning a Pump Mover Into a Coral Mover
RoboCoral is the beginning of a project we’ve wanted to do work on for a very, very long time. As aquarists we work so hard to try and achieve total water flow in the aquarium, eliminating any dead zones of water…
Wild Coral Shipments Have Resumed for at Least Few Months
So much has been happening regarding the export of Indonesian corals in the last few weeks that it has been challenging to make sense of it all. Immediately after Maricultured corals were greenlit for export, several shipments of wild corals…
Coral-Bacteria Communities are WAY More Important than Anyone Thought
Reading through different coral scientific publication, we came across one, that could be quite relevant for us reef aquarist. In this publication published in Nature, scientist from the Red Sea Research center, from the King Abdullah University of Science and…
Coral Snorkeling, Murex Bangka Back Reef
Coral Snorkeling Murex Bangka Back Reef When visiting Bangka island, you don’t have to go far to experience world-class coral snorkeling. The coral reef behind Murex Bangka Resort has an impressive diversity of marine life which is easy to spot…
